Dr. Augustine Ikpehai PhD, CEng, FHEA, MIET
Senior Lecturer
Summary
Dr Augustine Ikpehai received his PhD in Smart Grid communication from the Manchester Metropolitan University and MSc in Communication Engineering from Lancaster University, both in UK. He is a chartered engineer and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Augustine joined Ï㽶ÊÓƵ in January 2019 in the Department of Engineering & Mathematics. He has several years’ experience in industry and research with core expertise in Smart Grid, IoT and Intelligent Infrastructure.
About
Before joining Sheffield Hallam, Augustine was as a post-doctoral researcher in Electrical & Electronic Engineering Division, Manchester Metropolitan University. During his PhD and Post-Doc, Augustine was involved in many research projects such as Innovate UK "City Verve" IoT for Smart City project in which he was the task lead for IoT access technologies. The other projects are: H2020 “Triangulum” Smart Cities project, TSB/EPSRC “Smart In-building Micro-grid for Energy Management" and the UK-South Korean EPSRC "Peer to Peer (P2P) Energy Trading/Sharing".
Augustine publishes widely in leading peer-reviewed journals and conferences. His current research interests include EV charging network planning and scheduling, intelligent systems for critical infrastructure, smart wireless power transfer, transactive energy systems and cyber security in critical infrastructure.
Augustine has served as member of organising committee and Technical Program Committee in many IEEE conferences as well as referee in many renowned journals. Prior his PhD, Augustine worked as a Communication Network Engineer at Zenith Bank Plc, Nigeria where he obtained industry certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, CCIE (written), JNCIA and JNCIS.
He is a member of Centre for Automation and Robotic Ï㽶ÊÓƵ as well as Hallam Energy.
Awards and Distinctions:
• Winner, MMU Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Knowledge Exchange Award, 2016
• Winner, MMU Knowledge Exchange Outstanding Project of the year Award, 2016
• UK-Jordan Newton Fund/British Council Ï㽶ÊÓƵers Link Travel Grant, Amman, Jun 2019
• UK-Brazil Newton Fund/British Council Ï㽶ÊÓƵers Link Travel Grant, Foz do Iguacu, Sep 2019
• UK-China Newton Fund/British Council Ï㽶ÊÓƵers Link Travel Grant, Xi'An, Sep 2019
Senior Lecturer
Teaching
Department of Engineering and Mathematics
College of Business, Technology and Engineering
Electrical, Electronic Engineering and Future Technologies
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Professional Engineering Practice
• Communication Systems & Computer Networks
• Electronic, Electrical and Processor Engineering
• Vehicle Engineering Practice and Automotive Electrical System
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Recent Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Projects
• Jul 2023 - Jan 2025: Overhead Line Warning System - £581,721 (mostly funded by OFGEM Network Innovation Allowance to Northern Powergrid and SPEN and balance funded by UKPN).
• Feb 2022 - Dec 2022: Optimal Scheduling of Electric Vehicle-Integrated Multi-Energy System with High Renewable Generation - £83,986 (DTE Network+ funded by EPSRC grant reference EP/S032053/1).
Prior joining Sheffield, Augustine worked as PDRA/RA in the following projects:
• Triangulum- a €23M EU H2020 Smart Cities project (G/Agreement 646578-Triangulum-H2020-2014-2015/H2020-SCC-2014) in collaboration with 21 other partners in Europe.
• Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading, and Sharing-3M (Multi-times, Multi-scales, Multi-qualities)- EPSRC UK-South Korea: EPSRC UK-South Korea, partners: Bath (Lead), Oxford, Imperial and 5 South Korean institutions, G/ Agreement EP/N03466X/1, £2M, 2016- 2019
• City Verve - a £10M Innovate UK-funded IoT/Smart City project in collaboration with 22 other partners in UK ( Grant Innovate UK 102561).
• Smart In-building Micro-grid for Energy Management- a £700K research project funded by TSB/EPSRC (G/Agreement EP/M506758/1 through Innovate U.K. Grant 101836) in partnership with 1 SME.
Open Grid Systems Ltd, Frazer Nash Consulting, UKPN, Northern Power Grid, SPEN, Otaski Energy Systems, RINA Tech UK Ltd
Publications
Journal articles
Kayikci, Y., Ali, M.R., Khan, S.A., & Ikpehai, A. (2025). . Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 215.
Ibude, F., Otebolaku, A., Ameh, J., & Ikpehai, A. (2024). . Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, 14 (4).
Popoola, O., Rodrigues, M., Marchang, J., Shenfield, A., Ikpehai, A., & Popoola, J. (2024). . Internet of Things; Engineering Cyber Physical Human Systems, 27.
Popoola, O., Rodrigues, M., Marchang, J., Shenfield, A., Ikpehai, A., & Popoola, J. (2024). . Blockchain: Ï㽶ÊÓƵ and Applications, 5 (2).
Mudiyanselage, M.W., Aghdam, F.H., Kazemi-Razi, M., Chaudhari, K., Marzband, M., Ikpehai, A., ... Harris, G. (2023). . IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification.
Ahmadi, S.E., Kazemi-Razia, S.M., Marzband, M., Ikpehai, A., & Abusorrahb, A. (2023). . Electric Power Systems Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, 218.
Daramola, A.S., Ikpehai, A., Ahmadi, S.E., & Marzband, M. (2023). . Journal of Energy Storage, 57.
Ahmadi, S.E., Marzband, M., Ikpehai, A., & Abusorrah, A. (2022). . Journal of Energy Storage, 55 (B).
Jogunola, O., Adebisi, B., Anoh, K., Ikpehai, A., Hammoudeh, M., & Harris, G. (2022). . Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, 10 (1), 29-39.
Otebolaku, A., Enamamu, T., Alfoudi, A., Ikpehai, A., Marchang, J., & Lee, G.M. (2020). Deep Sensing: Inertial and Ambient Sensing for Activity Context Recognition Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. Sensors, 20 (13), 3803.
Anoh, K.O.O., Maharjan, S., Ikpehai, A., Zhang, Y., & Adebisi, B. (2020). Energy Peer-to-Peer Trading in Virtual Microgrids in Smart Grids: A Game-Theoretic Approach. IEEE Trans. Smart Grid, 11, 1264-1275.
Jogunola, O., Adebisi, B., Ikpehai, A., Popoola, S., Gui, G., Gacanin, H., & Ci, S. (2020). . IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
Rozman, M., Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., Rabie, K., Gacanin, H., Ji, H., & Fernando, M. (2019). . IEEE Access, 7, 112240-112248.
Anoh, K., Maharjan, S., Ikpehai, A., Zhang, Y., & Adebisi, B. (2019). . IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 1.
Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., Rabie, K.M., Anoh, K., Ande, R.E., Hammoudeh, M., ... Mbanaso, U.M. (2018). . IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 1.
Jogunola, O., Adebisi, B., Anoh, K., Ikpehai, A., Hammoudeh, M., Harris, G., & Gacanin, H. (2018). . Energies, 11 (9), 2331.
Adebisi, B., Rabie, K.M., Ikpehai, A., Soltanpur, C., & Wells, A. (2018). . IEEE systems journal, 12 (3), 2344-2352.
Adebisi, B., Anoh, K., Rabie, K.M., Ikpehai, A., Fernando, M., & Wells, A. (2018). . IEEE Systems Journal, 1-12.
Jogunola, O., Ikpehai, A., Anoh, K., Adebisi, B., Hammoudeh, M., Gacanin, H., & Harris, G. (2018). . Energies, 11 (1), 62.
Jogunola, O., Ikpehai, A., Anoh, K., Adebisi, B., Hammoudeh, M., Son, S.-.Y., & Harris, G. (2017). . Energies, 10 (12), 2106.
Rabie, K.M., Adebisi, B., Gacanin, H., Nauryzbayev, G., & Ikpehai, A. (2017). . Journal of communications and networks, 19 (5), 531-538.
Rozman, M., Fernando, M., Adebisi, B., Rabie, K.M., Collins, T., Kharel, R., & Ikpehai, A. (2017). . Energies, 10 (10), 1614.
Sha'aban, Y.A., Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., & Rabie, K.M. (2017). . Energies, 10 (10), 1507.
Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., Rabie, K.M., Fernando, M., & Wells, A. (2017). . IEEE Access, 5, 10723-10733.
Rozman, M., Fernando, M., Adebisi, B., Rabie, K.M., Kharel, R., Ikpehai, A., & Gacanin, H. (2017). . Energies, 10 (4), 498.
Tsado, Y., Gamage, K.A.A., Adebisi, B., Lund, D., Rabie, K.M., & Ikpehai, A. (2017). . Energies, 10 (3), 287.
Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., Rabie, K.M., Haggar, R., & Baker, M. (2016). . Energies, 9 (12), 1046.
Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., & Rabie, K.M. (2016). . Energies, 9 (7), 569.
Ali, A., Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., & Mihaylova, L. (2016). . IET Wireless Sensor Systems, 6 (3), 74-81.
Aiyelabowo, P., Noordin, N.K., Ikpehai, A., & Adebisi, B. (2015). . International Journal of Innovative Ï㽶ÊÓƵ in Computer and Communication Engineering, 3 (5), 4224-4247.
Conference papers
Ikpehai, A., Sunkanmi, O., & Anoh, K. (2023). . In 2023 IEEE Jordan International Joint Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Jordan, 22 May 2023 - 24 May 2023 (pp. 205-210). IEEE:
Anoh, K., Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., Rabie, K., Popoola, W., & Gacanin, H. (2019). . 2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC).
Anoh, K., Bajovic, D., Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., & Vukobratovic, D. (2019). . In IEEE EUROCON 2019 -18th International Conference on Smart Technologies. IEEE:
Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., Anoh, K., Jogunola, O., & Hammoudeh, M. (2019). . IFAC-PapersOnLine, 52 (4).
Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., & Anoh, K. (2019). 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and its Applications (ISPLC).
Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., & Anoh, K. (2019). . In Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium, Thessaloniki, Greece, 23 October 2018 - 25 October 2018. IEEE:
Anoh, K.O.O., Ikpehai, A., Rabie, K.M., Adebisi, B., & Popoola, W.O. (2018). PAPR reduction of wavelet-OFDM systems using pilot symbols. ISPLC, 1-6.
Anoh, K., Ikpehai, A., Bajovic, D., Jogunola, O., Adebisi, B., Vukobratovic, D., & Hammoudeh, M. (2018). . ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 43.
Anoh, K., Ikpehai, A., Rabie, K., Adebisi, B., & Popoola, W. (2018). . 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and its Applications, ISPLC 2018, 129-134.
Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., & Kharel, R. (2016). . IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks, CAMAD, 242-247.
Ikpehai, A., & Adebisi, B. (2016). . 2016 10th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, CSNDSP 2016.
Rozman, M., Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., & Rabie, K.M. (2016). . 2016 10th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, CSNDSP 2016, 1-5.
Ikpehai, A., & Adebisi, B. (2015). . 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications, ISPLC 2015, 211-215.
Ali, A., Costas, X., Lyudmila, M., Adebisi, B., & Ikpehai, A. (2014). Kriging interpolation based sensor node position management in dynamic environment. 2014 9th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks & Digital Sign (CSNDSP), 293-297.
Book chapters
Ahmadi, S.E., Marzband, M., Ikpehai, A., & Abusorrah, A. (2024). Optimal Scheduling of an Islanded Multi-Energy Microgrid Considering Power-to-Gas and Carbon Capture Technologies. In Green Energy and Technology. (pp. 161-170). Springer Nature Switzerland:
Theses / Dissertations
Popoola, O.J. (2025). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Shenfield, A., Marchang, J., Ikpehai, A., & Rodrigues, M.
Other activities
Augustine serves as member of organising committee and Technical Program Committee in many IEEE conferences as well as referee in many renowned journals.
Postgraduate supervision
• Matjaz Rozman, (Co-Supervisor), Completed: April 2019.
• Cristiano Fernando Lewandoski, (Co-Supervisor), PhD UNIOESTE, Brazil 2020 -
• Olusogo Joshua Popoola, (Advisor ), 2021 -
• Syed Haseeb Haider, (Co-Supervisor), 2022-
• Elizabeth Michalenko, (Director of Studies), 2022-
• Jude Enenche Ameh, (Co-Supervisor), 2023 -