Education

• 2005: PhD Computer Engineering (Texas A&M University)
• 2002: MSc Computer Engineering (Texas A&M University)
• 1996: BSc Electronic & Computer Engineering (University of Nigeria, Nsukka)

Academic Interests

High performance computing & network architectures; Fault-tolerant systems; Distributed computing; Parallel processing & programming; High speed optical networks; Performance modeling and analysis; Information assurance and traffic engineering in a dynamic computing environment.

Selected Publications

• Ekpe Okorafor, Hybrid architecture and network control strategies, IEEE 5th Intl. Conf. on Broadband Communications, Networks and Systems (BROADNETS 2008), Sept. 2008.
• Ekpe Okorafor, Integrated hybrid optical node using dynamic reconfiguration and routing algorithms for bimodal traffic, Journal of Optical Networks, vol. 6, pp1191-1209 (2007).
• Ekpe Okorafor, All-Optical Routing for High Assurance Computer Systems, IEEE High Assurance Systems Engineering, HASE’07, Nov. 2007.
• Ekpe Okorafor, Reliability and Fault Tolerant Percolation Routing for Large-Scale Computer Systems, Intl. Conf. on Communications in Computing (CIC’07), June 2007.
• Ekpe Okorafor and Mi Lu, Percolation Routing in a 3-Dimensional Multicomputer Network Topology Using Optical Interconnection, Journal of Optical. Networks (JON), vol. 4, pp157-175 (2005).