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| Prof. Quist-Aphetsi Kester |
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| CRITAC/University Of Brest-France CNRS Lab-STICC / Ghana Communications Technology University-Ghana, Accra |
| Regular Member |
| Personal Web Site: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=t_YgLCYAAAAJ&hl=en |
| Main page: http://www.mirlabs.net/global/index.php?c=main&a=person&id=1074 |
| Short Biography |
Kester Quist-Aphetsi is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, a research Ambassador to World Scientific Forum, Research Professor, and a Global award (Gold) winner 2010 in Canada Toronto, of the NSBEs’ Consulting Design Olympiad and has been recognized as a Global Consulting Design Engineer. He has also been awarded as the Best Lecturer for Research, Publications and scholarship at the Ghana Technology University College. He is a member of the Executive council of Internet Society and the National Chair for Policy and Research, Internet Society (ISOC) Ghana Chapter, a world renowned body that provides international leadership in Internet related standards, education, and policy. He is the chairman of the governing council for the Centre for Research, Information Technology and Advanced Computing-CRITAC. He also served on scientific Technical committees for, UK Chartered Institute of IT British Computer Society-BCS-UK, Institute of Engineering and Technology-IET UK, international conferences, standard committees of IEEE in formulation of global standards as well as consulted for Governments on policy documents. He is a member of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology Team of Experts as a consultant and he partake in national, European Commission supported projects, and Inter governmental research projects and also to ensure overall scientific quality in latest scientific and technological developments. The European Cooperation in Science and Technology is the first and widest European intergovernmental network for coordination of nationally funded research activities.
He did his postgraduate studies, PhD(computer science) Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest in France, Master of Software Engineering degree from the Open University Malaysia with thesis area in Information Security. He has a law knowledge in Cyber law at Indian Law Institute from Deemed University and law (LLB Law degree (Graduate Entry for Law Practice)) at the University of London UK. He obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana and acquired Professional Diploma certification in Business Management and Administration from the Institute of Commercial Management, United Kingdom as well as , Diploma in Project Management, Diploma in Web Development, Diploma in Multimedia Development, Diploma in Mathematics, Diploma in Legal Studies and Advance Diploma Certification in Computer Hardware Engineering and Advance Diploma certification in Computer Systems Administration. He has completed several courses in the fields of Computing, such as Computer software Engineering, programming, Networking, Databases, Computer Security, Software development, Linux Administration, Computer Servers, Artificial Intelligence:-Embedded Systems (building of Hardware and software integration) etc.
He has worked in various capacities as a lecturer (national and international universities) and Head of Digital Forensics Department, head Computer science department, Head of Digital Forensics Unit, consultant to national and international reputable organizations, and served as a presenter at seminars and workshops both in the academic and social environment. He teaches short courses such as project management, scientific programming, software development etc. and had exposure to social researching as a freelance journalist and a social commentator on current affairs, scientific, economic and socio-political issues on radio and in newspaper.
He is well vested in research works at both undergraduate and postgraduate level with national and international project/thesis/research supervision experience. He is an international scholar who has served on a world scholarship review board with review records from institutions such as Harvard University, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Michigan etc, an author of many publications and books, reviewer and advisor of high standard scientific international Journals, member and consultant to international scientific organizations such as IEEE-USA, ACM, CSIEEE, IET-UK, BCS Technology strategic board -UK etc. He was made a Chair Scientific Conferences and other IEEE, ACM and Springer conferences in countries like Spain, India etc. and have several global, international and institutional recognition and awards to that effect.
He has delivered talks on security in the Privacy, Defense and Cyber warfare in different countries. He is a research scientist and he is currently on a research project work at LAB-STICC UMR 6285, a CNRS-Centre for National and Scientific research Laboratory in France at the CID pole and the division of SFIIS (Sécurité Fiabilité et Intégrité de l’Information et des Systèmes). He is the Lead Scientist for the Directorate of Information Assurance at CRITAC and a member of CHESS: Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems at the University of California Berkley. |
| List of top 5 publications in the last 5 years |
1. Quist-Aphetsi Kester, Laurent Nana, Anca Christine Pascu, Sophie Gire, Jojo Moses Eghan, Nii Narku Quaynor. A Novel Hybrid Discrete Cosine Transformation and Visual Cryptographic Technique for Securing Digital Images. IEEE UKSim 2015(Cambridge University-UK) - 17th International Conference on Mathematical/Analytical Modelling and Computer Simulation, Cambridge University (Emmanuel College), UK. IEEE Computer Society. 2 Quist-Aphetsi Kester, Laurent Nana, Anca Christine Pascu, Sophie Gire, Jojo Moses Eghan, Nii Narku Quaynor. A Hybrid Image Cryptographic and Spatial Digital Watermarking Encryption Technique for Security and Authentication of Digital Images. IEEE UKSim 2015(Cambridge University-UK) - 17th International Conference on Mathematical/Analytical Modelling and Computer Simulation, Cambridge University (Emmanuel College), UK. IEEE Computer Society. 3.Quist-Aphetsi Kester, Laurent Nana, Anca Christine Pascu, Sophie Gire, Jojo Moses Eghan, Nii Narku Quaynor. A Hybrid Encryption Technique for Securing Biometric Image Data Based on Feistel Network and RGB Pixel Displacement. Communications in Computer and Information Science: Recent Trends in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Security. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2014. 4.Quist-Aphetsi Kester, Laurent Nana, Anca Christine Pascu, Sophie Gire, Jojo Moses Eghan, Nii Narku Quaynor. A Cryptographic Encryption Technique of MPEG Digital video Images based on RGB Layer Pixel Values. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing : Pattern Analysis, Intelligent Security and the Internet of Things. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2014. 5. Quist-Aphetsi Kester, Laurent Nana, Anca Christine, Sophie Gire. A New Encryption Cipher for Securing Digital Images of Video Surveillance Devices using Diffie-Hellman-MD5 Algorithm and RGB pixel shuffling. IEEE 7th European Modelling Symposium on Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation. IEEE.Computer Society. |
| List of top 5 academic activities during the last 5 years |
1.Researcher at LAB-STICC UMR 6285, a CNRS-Centre for National and Scientific research Laboratory in France at the CID pole and the division of SFIIS (Sécurité Fiabilité et Intégrité de l’Information et des Systèmes). 2. Member of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology Team of Experts as a consultant on National, European Commission supported projects, and Inter governmental research projects. 3. Lead Scientist for the Directorate of Information Assurance at CRITAC 4. Chair of IEEE UKSim 2015(Cambridge University-UK) - 17th International Conference on Mathematical/Analytical Modelling and Computer Simulation, Cambridge University (Emmanuel College), UK 5. Chair of IEEE Second International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Modelling and Simulation 2014 Madrid, Spain 18-20 November 2014 |