Michael Adeyeye (Ph.D)

Are you considering applying for the NRF (National Research Foundation) rating? I would be happy to share some valuable information and documents with you. I am an NRF Y rated researcher, where Y stands for Young. While I can’t publish my application on my blog, I am more that happy to share the feedback I got from the NRF office. The feedback is a summary of reports submitted by reviewers of my application. I am sure the feedback will tell you what you need to have (e.g. publications), do (e.g. organize events) and work towards (e.g. more collaborations and strong research team). In addition, it will tell you what to keep to the bare minimum.

One thing I found very scary but truthful is that my field is competitive; the reviewers just reminded of how dynamic the IT field is. I hope the below document will give some good tips to prepare your application. Many thanks to Dr Veruscha Fester of the Department of Civil Engineering, CPUT for sharing her application with me.

Downloads:
1. Outcome Feedback only
2. For my application, drop me an email

I wasn’t going to publish this blog post, until I noticed that Visionmobile and Tmcnet wouldn’t make my comments on their articles available to the public.

What fascinates me is that the authors of the articles (WebRTC May Radically Change Communications, WebRTC: a new game-changer, disrupting Telcos and OTTs) and I think alike. It reminds of the proverb, “Great minds think alike!!.” I was at the Meraka Institute,  Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa, as a visiting researcher last July and gave a talk titled “WebRTC: Another Nightmare for Telecom Providers?”.

Below are the summary and the presentation slides.

Summary:

Web browsers will now use WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) to communicate with one another. WebRTC can also be used to communicate with existing telecommunication networks. As a result, voice services in existing telecommunication networks will likely drop as customers will pay more for data services in order to use WebRTC. In addition, the number of VOIP & IM applications on a PC would likely reduce. WebRTC is a game changer, and it is bound to take some of the market share of voice and data services from the telco operators. This talk will take a look at WebRTC and its potentials. It will also include a short demonstration.

Presentation Slides (in html)

Presentation at CSIR

Mayowa Mulero had her graduation this morning. She has now earned an M.Tech degree in Information Technology. Mayowa used to be one of my diligent masters students; she completed her masters degree (by dissertation) in less than 18months.  In addition, she published a couple of papers in the course of studies (IST-Africa ’11, IASTED CIIT ’12, e.t.c.), and  her thesis sailed through external examination with no request for corrections. I wish you, Mayowa, the very busy in all your future endeavours.

Below is the acceptance email Paul and I got on the VT paper after making the required minor changes.

Dear Dr. Adeyeye,

The review of the Research Article EURASIP JWCN/967260 titled “The
Village Telco Project: A Reliable and Practical Wireless Mesh Telephony
Infrastructure,” by Michael Adeyeye and Paul Gardner-Stephen submitted
to EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, has been
completed, and I am pleased to inform you that your manuscript has now
been accepted for publication in the journal.

Thank you again for submitting your manuscript to EURASIP Journal on
Wireless Communications and Networking.

Best regards,

Yuh Shyan Chen
yschen{at}mail.ntpu.edu.tw

I knew months ago that I had passed my Ph.D, and that was why I had included the degree (Ph.D) in my name, when replying to one or two emails in the past. Everyone would like to test-drive a new car they want to buy, and so, I tried to ‘test-include’ the new degree in my name. And yesterday, the degree was conferred at the usual place at the UCT – Jameson Hall. Below are four of the pictures of me during the ceremony.

It was awesome seeing for the second time that an external examiner would pass my thesis without asking me to make corrections. The first time I got that kind of result was when I got my M.Sc. (Eng.) result in 2008. This time around, one of the Ph.D examiners recommended the award of the Ph.D  degree with no corrections made to my thesis. Below is the only report the Doctoral Degree Board (DDB) got from the examiner.

External Examiner's Report on my Ph.D Thesis

I am not allowed to show the examiner’s details. Sorry about that. But I am happy to provide anyone interested with all the reports.

It all went well. The instructors showed us how to create and submit a patch. Pierros later demonstrated how to translate a software package using desktop and web-based tools. Examples of desktop tools one could use are Poedit and Virtaal, and examples of web-based tools are Narro (used for Firefox) and Transifex (used for Fedora). We also took a look at the various versioning tools – CVS, SVN, GIT, e.t.c.

If there is anything I am happy about, it’s that everyone is learning one thing or the other. There are always new things to learn about. Day 2 of POSSE SA is over. We could go have fun – hiking Table Mountain! See you all tomorrow.

The award ceremony took place last Friday, and many thanks to my supervisor, who also showed up at the event. Below is a picture of me, the vice chancellor of the UCT, Max Price, and my supervisor (who is approaching to congratulate me and take a picture with us).

The Research Associateship Award

It is nice receiving emails from people and firms about my project – TransferHTTP. I was contacted late last year by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle and Sun) on the project. And yesterday, Ribbit Corporation also indicated interest in my work. Below are the mails from both firms, most likely one of their developers.

Oracle and Sun

from B***d P* <B***d.P*{at}sun.com> to transferhttp-owner@mozdev.org date Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:08 PM subject About the TransferHttp Project mailed-by mozdev.org

Hi,

A colleague of mine showed me this project and it looks very exciting to me.

We are working a converged application framework (http://sailfin-cafe.dev.java.net)
for writing converged web/sip services quickly.

I wanted to start using your plugin for some blogs and examples in the beginning. Would
it work with firefox 3.x? Do you have plans to create plugins for other browsers?

thanks,
B***d.

Ribbit Corporation

Subject: Transfer HTTP

From: M** Ta**** <m**.ta****{at}ribbit.com>
To: “micadeyeye{at}yahoo.com” <micadeyeye{at}yahoo.com>

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Michael,

Im wondering what the status of the Transfer HTTP project and if you had any plans to extend this to work on other platforms and browsers? At Ribbit we are quite interested in this kind of approach to Web Telephony and could possible help extend this work.

Thanks,
m**

My response has always been the same. I currently do not consider developing the extension for other Web browsers/platforms. The implementation was a proof of concept. Although the site (http://transferhttp.mozdev.org/installation.html) does not contain the FF 3.x version of the extension, I could provide anyone interested with the installer/source code. I hope to push the FF 3.x version of the extension to the site soon. I am also very happy to work with the firm/anyone interested in extending the work. Both TransferHTTP and TransferHTTPController were released under open-source licenses.

If anyone is interested in seeing how the extension works, here is a demo on it – http://bit.ly/pQVKX. And for the control services or proxy, here is its demo – http://bit.ly/7XPhc

I was contacted few days ago that I will be one of the recipients of the prestigious awards in the UCT – University Research Associateship. Below is the mail I got from the Postgraduate Funding Office.

Dear Students

I have pleasure in advising you that the Postgraduate Studies Funding Committee have selected you as a recipient of the University Research Associateship, at the value indicated, to assist your research towards the Doctoral degree.

The purpose of the Research Associateship is to recognize excellent student researchers and support the work of supervisors.
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In acknowledgement of your achievements, you will be presented with a certificate at a ceremony presided over by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research, Professor D Visser. You will be notified of the date and time of the presentation, which will take place during August 2010.
Lastly, a portion of this award will be transferred to your supervisor’s research fund. Please ensure that you the correct fund numbers are completed on the claim to not delay payments.

Should you have any enquiries please contact me.

Kind Regards

***ntel R***
Coordinator: Information Management Portfolio