Biography

Junaidu is an accomplished and seasoned academic and professional with extensive local and international experience in diverse areas of Computing. He is a Professor of Computer Science and received his training at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria; Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London; and St. Andrews University, Scotland.
He worked at St Andres University, Scotland (part-time), at Universiti Telekom Malaysia for one year, at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia for nine years, and at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria since 2008. He supervised several undergraduate and postgraduate students at these universities.

He was a major resource person in many developmental and academic programs at the places he worked. At King Fahd University, he co-led the design, development and delivery of the first successful online courses in that university, around 2002, led curriculum development efforts and won the KFUPM’s prize of Instructional Technology Award in 2004. At ABU Zaria he held the positions of Head of Department, Dean, Chairman of Complex of 6 years, and ICT Director for over ten years. He served on several committees and was the mentor of many students’ groups that competed and won prizes, including a regional HULT PRIZE competition. He led a team of over twenty-five personnel that developed and still maintain over a dozen suites of software applications used in ABU and other universities across Nigeria today.

He received many awards and distinctions including Best Graduating Student of Diploma in Mathematics Education, Best Second Year Student and Best Graduating B.Sc. Computer Science Student, ABU Vice Chancellor’s Merit Award in 2014, scholarship award by the ODASSS (Overseas Development Association Shared Scholarship Scheme) for M.Sc. study to University of London and Nigerian Government Scholarship award for Ph.D. study to St. Andrews University, Scotland. He also won other merit awads at KFUPM as well as students’ awards at ABU Zaria.

Junaidu is a Life Member of the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery), a Member of IEEE, CPN (Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria) and NCS (Nigeria Computer Society).