Frimpong Twum

Country: Ghana

Education: PhD or Doctorate

Affiliation: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Domain of Research: ,

Biography: Dr. Frimpong Twum holds PhD in Computer Science from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana, with specialization in Computer Security. Prior to that he received his B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and MSc. Internet and Multimedia Engineering from London South Bank University in 2004, and 2007 respectively. He also received MSc. Degree in Information System from Roehampton University, London in 2011. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, KNUST. Dr. Twum is a committed, highly skilled, motivated, hardworking, and technically competent professional with passion for knowledge acquisition and dissemination in the field of computer science especially computer network security, machine learning, and cloud computing. Dr. Twum has several papers to his credit in credible journals including Sensors, IEEE access, IEEE Xplore, Inderscience (IJCAET), IJACSA, and Journal of Computer Science. Together with his co-authors, they have proposed solutions for securing cloud data that deals with the issues relating to data ownership, data location, confidentiality and data integrity. They have also employed Machine Learning Algorithms for Medicinal Plant Identification, Evaluation of Conversational Agents, and Rainfall Prediction for the Various Ecological Zones of Ghana. His research in these areas is steadily having impact in the research community. In addition, he has proposed new technique for enhancing digital forensic data acquisition, and the approach have given new ways of recovering digital data for forensic evidence in adjudication of criminal cases. His areas of research interest include Computer Networks Security, Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Cloud Computing.