Staff Profiles

BEng, MSc, PhD, KTCP

Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

PhD-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Nottingham

Registered and Accredited BQA Assessor and Moderator

Pr. Engr, ERB-BW

Senior Member, IEEE & ACM, USA

Prof. Adamu Murtala Zungeru obtained his PhD, MSc, and BEng from Nottingham University, ABU-Zaria, and FUT- Minna, respectively. He served as a Research Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA, where he also earned a Postgraduate Teaching Certificate in 2014. Currently, he is a Full Professor of Electrical Engineering. Before joining UB in August 2025, he served as an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical and Communications Systems Engineering at the Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) from November 2018 to February 2025. In 2015, before joining BIUST, he was a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria. Prof. Zungeru is a Senior Member of IEEE, a registered engineer with the COREN-Nigeria, a Professional Engineer accredited by ERB-Botswana, and a member of the ACM in the USA.

He is credited with inventing the Termite-Hill routing algorithm for WSNs, a Method and System for sorting diamonds, An Electrical Switching System for a Building or Installation, and a farmyard access control system and method. He has received 9 Granted patents in the USA, Russia, the EU (38 contracting States), China, South Africa, the ARIPO, and Botswana. He has published 67 Scopus-indexed Journals, 5 Books, 13 Book Chapters, 18 Conference papers and 2 Editorials, and currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Access Journal.

Independent Study Topic (EEB535)

Electrical Network Theory (EEB331)

Electronic Circuit Analysis and Design

Digital Signal Processing

Signals and Systems

Digital Communications

• Routing Protocols
• Wireless Sensor Systems
• Energy harvesting techniques for micro-electronics
• Electronics Circuits Design and Applications
• Smart Systems
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Graduated 5 Ph.D and 8 MEng Students in these areas. 

1. Hybrid energy harvesting design and optimization for a seismic network

2. Energy Efficient Techniques for Power Savings in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNS)

3. Mmwave Channel Characterization and Modeling for 5G and Future Wireless Systems

4. Design and Development of an Enhanced X-Ray-based Transmission and Luminescence Diamond Sorter

5. Distortion Balanced Image Compression Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks

Scopus (101 Articles, H-Index-18, 1907 Citations): https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=54421729200

Google Scholar (179 Articles, H-Index-26, i10-Index-47, 3397 Citations): https://scholar.google.com.my/citations?user=v4uxhHsAAAAJ

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2412-6559

Publons profile: https://publons.com/researcher/4092437/zungeru-adamu-murtala/publications/

1. A.M. Zungeru, E.G. Modise, J.M. Chuma, “Method and System for Sorting of Diamonds”, United States of America Patent No: US12030086B2, filed March 02, 2023, Granted and published July 09, 2024. Available at: https://patents.google.com/patent/US12030086B2/en
2. A.M. Zungeru, E.G. Modise, J.M. Chuma, “Method and System for Sorting of Diamonds”, Russian Federation Patent RU2808530C1, filed September 02, 2020, and Granted on September 20, 2023. Available at: https://patenton.ru/patent/RU2808530C1/en
3. A.M. Zungeru, J. Gaboitaolelwe, B. Diarra, J.M. Chuma, L.-M. Ang, L. Kolobe, M. David, I. Zibani, “A Secured Smart Home Switching System based on Wireless Communications and Self-Energy Harvesting”, in IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 25063-25085, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2900305