Third Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
3 November - 9 November 2023

Prof Peter Amoako-Yirenkyi - Participant

Data Science for Child Health Now in Ghana (DS-CHANGE) (MPI)

Prof. Peter Amoako-Yirenkyi holds a PhD in Mathematics with an emphasis on Computer vision and Scientific Computing. In the past decade, he has trained over thirty PhDs and several postgraduate students in Scientific Computing and Industrial Modeling. He has worked with several international organizations on many projects, including the UN, WHO, CERN, UNESCO, and is a member of the Citizen Cyberscience Center, in Geneva. He has also consulted and developed several application suites and set up network infrastructures in several countries, including Rwanda and Morocco, through the IBPS-UNESCO e-library and infrastructure project. He is currently the lead scientist for the High Performance/Throughput Computing (HP/TC) Laboratory hosted by KNUST. He is the Director of Scientific and Technical Computing at the National Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Ghana. He served for three terms as the KNUST IT Consultant, responsible for the technology mission of the University. He has organized and facilitated many training, workshops and conferences. He has publications and specific research interests in Grid computing, Volunteer and High-Performance Computing, Fractional and Stochastic Differential Equations, Reservoir Simulation, Human Gait, Face and Fingerprint Recognition, Wavelets, Sparse representations in Redundant Dictionaries, Complex Energy Constrained modelling, Water resource modelling, data analytics and computational genomics, Computational linguistics, Distributed Ranking algorithms and Clustering Search Results. He has been a co-PI on multiple grants. He is currently the MPI for the Fogarty International Center /NIH Data Science for Child Health Now in Ghana grant. He is a member of H3Africa and has served as H3ABionet Node lead for KNUST and co-PI for the West African Sustainable Leadership and Innovation Training in Bioinformatics Research. He is the research lead for Advanced Computing and Digital Forensic in the KNUST Engineering Education Program (an African Center of Excellence program). He has served on several national boards, including representing public Universities on the board of Ghana's National Research and Education Network (Ghana's NREN).