| JUMOKE "KEMI" LADEJI-OSIAS, PH.D. |
Jumoke “Kemi” Ladeji-Osias is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the School of Engineering at Morgan State University. Prior to joining the faculty at Morgan State University, Dr. Ladeji-Osias was a Research Assistant in the Department of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On the undergraduate level, Dr. Ladeji-Osias has taught Electric Circuits; Introduction to Digital Logic; Introduction to Electrical Laboratory; Introduction to Electrical Engineering; Independent Study (Bioelectricity, Digital Design using VHDL) and has supervised senior design projects. She has also taught Computer Graphics – a course that was “team taught” on the graduate level. From 2001-2003, Dr. Ladeji-Osias served as a Judge for the Undergraduate and Graduate Research Symposium and on the Morgan State University Council’s Professional Welfare Committee from 2003-2005. She served as the Committee Chair of the Professional Welfare Council during the period 2004-2005 and serves as a member of the Finance Committee of the Morgan State University Council.Dr. Ladeji-Osias’ research interests comprise reconfigurable hardware – radar alogorithms in FPGAs; multimodal systems – visualization, haptics, virtual reality, network intrusion detection; and biomedical engineering – instrumentation, assistive technologies and tactile graphs. She holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland. Additionally, Dr. Ladeji-Osias’ is the recipient of a number of honors and fellowships which include:
A member of the American Association of University Women, American Society for Engineering Education, Dr. Ladeji-Osias serves as the organization’s Secretary/Treasurer – a position she has held since 2005. Dr. Ladejui-Osias also served as the Conference Chair for the American Society for Engineering Education’s Fall 2003 Middle Atlantic Conference. She is member of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation; IEEE and Order of the Engineer. Her professional and service activities include serving as a review for John Wiley’s Electric Circuit and Digital Logic textbooks, American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition in 2002, Frontiers in Education Conference in 2002 and 2004 and the WEPAN National Conference in 2004. Dr. Ladeji-Osias serves as a volunteer for Volunteers in Medical Engineering where she supervised the design of a musical toy and wheelchair backpack device and as a Branch Counselor at Morgan State University’s IEEE Student Branch. Dr. Ladeji-Osias is also a prolific writer. In 2004, she co-authored with C.J. Scott, T. Capers and K. Nyarko “The Development and Implementation of EM-Viz, a 3D Undergraduate Electromagnetic Engineering Visualization Application, with an Assessment of its Relative. Efficacy for Minority Visual Literacy and Achievement” which was published in 2004 in Computers in Education Journal (14(3):71-80, 2004). “Network Intrusion Visualization with NIVA, Visual and Haptic Analyzer,” which she co-authored with C. Scott, K. Nyarko and T. Capers was published in Information Visualization in 2003 (2(2):82-94, 2003) while “Human Performance Using Virtual Reality Tumor Palpation Simulation” which she co-authored with N. Langrana, G. Burdea and M. Dinsmore was published in 1997 in Computers & Graphics (21(4):451-458, 1997). |
