Dr. Samuel A. AJILA
Samuel Adesoye Ajila was born in Ogbomoso,
Oyo State, Nigeria
in 1957. He received a B.Sc. (Honors) degree in Computer Science in 1983
from University
of Ibadan,
Ibadan,
Nigeria and M.Sc. in
Computer Science (Computational) in 1987 from
Obafemi
Awolowo
University,
Ile
Ife, Nigeria.
He later received M.Sc. (June, 1990), DEA (Sept. 1991) and Ph.D. (June, 1995) in Computer Science (specializing in Software
Engineering & Knowledge-based Systems) from
Université
Henri Poincaré
- Nancy I, Nancy, France Université de
Nancy I, Nancy;
Ecole Doctorale IAEM-Lorraine,
LORIA
, France
He joined
University
of Ibadan as a Graduate Assistant
in 1984. He became an Assistant Lecturer in 1987, Lecturer II in 1989, and Lecturer I in 1995. He left Ibadan
to take up appointment as a Lecturer at the Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science, University
of Lesotho,
Roma,
Lesotho in 1996. He was appointed Senior Lecturer in
Computer Science & Information Systems at Vista
University, South Africa
in 1998. He later became the Head of
Department. He moved to
Carleton
University as an Assistant
Professor in September 2001.
His research interests are in
Reengineering and Software Maintenance; Software Evolution and Change
Management; Software Processes and Workflows; Software Product Lines and System
Family Engineering; Reuse in Software Engineering; Knowledge Acquisition and Management
(with applications in Software Engineering); Discovering Knowledge from data (with
applications in Software Engineering). He is a member of IEEE, ACM, and
IAMOT
Samuel is married to Victoria,
and they have four children: Ibukun, Tobi, Ayo, and Victoria (Jr).
(cf.
http://www.egide.asso.fr/uk/guide/comprendre/diplomes/ for French
educational system)