Johnson I. Agbinya graduated from La Trobe University with a PhD in microwave radar remote sensing (MSc Research University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland (1982) in microprocessor techniques in digital control systems) and BSc (Electronic/Electrical Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria. He is currently Head of School of Informa- tion Technology and Engineering at Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia). Prior to this he was Associate Professor (remote sensing systems engineering) in the department of electronic engineering. He is also Adjunct Professor at Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) Arusha Tanzania and PhD Research supervising Professor at Sudan University of Science and Technology Khartoum, Sudan.
He was Extraordinary Professor in telecommunications at Tshwane Uni- versity of Technology/French South African Technical Institute in Pretoria, South Africa. He was also a Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO Telecom- munications and Industrial Physics (1994–2000; renamed CSIRO ICT) in biometrics and remote sensing and Principal Engineer Research at Vodafone Australia research from 2000 to 2003. He is the author of six technical books in electronic communications including Principles of Inductive Near Field Communications for Internet of Things (River Publishers, Aalborg Postkontor, Denmark, 2011); IP Communications and Services for NGN (Auerbach Publications, Taylor & Francis Group, USA, 2010) and Planning and Optimisation of 3G and 4G Wireless Networks (River Publishers, Aalborg Postkontor, Denmark, 2009).
He is Consulting Editor for River Publishers Denmark on new areas in Telecommunications and Science and also the founder and editor-in-chief of the African Journal of ICT (AJICT) and founder of the International Conference on Broadband Communications and Biomedical Applications (IB2COM). His current research interests include remote and short range sensing, inductive communications and wireless power transfer, Machine to Machine communications (M2), Internet of Things, wireless and mobile communications and biometric systems. Dr. Agbinya is a member of IEEE, ACS and African Institute of Mathematics (AIMS). He has published extensively on broadband wireless communications, sensors, inductive communications, biometrics, vehicular networks, video and speech compression and coding, contributing to the development of voice over IP, intelligent multimedia sub-system and design and optimisation of 3G networks. He was recipient of research and best paper awards and has held several advisory roles including the Nigerian National ICT Policy initiative.