Nathan Amanquah (PhD)
Dean: Electrical Engineering;
Patrick Awuah Endowed Chair in Engineering
Nathan Amanquah is an Associate Professor in Ashesi’s Engineering Department. He also serves as the Dean of Engineering for the Faculty of Engineering & Computer Science and is the inaugural Patrick Awuah Professorial Chair. He has previously worked as a systems administrator, a communications engineer and as an automation engineer.
He has 25+ years of experience as a software developer and is a consultant on various information technology and networked communications issues. He holds BSc and PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the (Kwame Nkrumah) University of Science and Technology, Ghana, and the University of Strathclyde, UK, respectively. He is a member of the IEEE and a registered professional engineer with the Ghana Institution of Engineers (GhIE).
- Embedded Systems
- Internet of Things
- Digital Systems Design
- Industrial Automation
- Applications of machine learning in embedded systems
- Wireless technologies and network protocols for Internet of Things (IoT) and wireless sensor networks.
- Hardware acceleration of machine learning in embedded systems.
- N Amanquah, “Learning to Design Embedded Systems Using ARM Cortex M0+” Smartline Publications, 2023
- B Appiah, L Asamoah-Akuoko, C France, A Rene, N Amanquah, I Bates, “Pharmacists and COVID-19 vaccination – Considering mobile phone caller tunes as a novel approach to promote vaccine uptake in low- and middle-income countries”, Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, Elsevier [Available online] 3 August 2021
- Tumuhairwe and N. Amanquah, “Determining the Location of a Bus in Real-Time Using LoRa Technology,” 2019 IEEE AFRICON, Accra, Ghana, 25-29 Sept. 2019, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/AFRICON46755.2019.9133958.
- Laura Ray; David Hodgson; David Feinauer; Raina White; Annett Gawerc; Prudence Merton; Devin Montgomery; Blair Allison; Nathan Amanquah; Charles Jackson; Fred McBagonluri; Paul Shiue; Eric Welch; Kevin Huang; Carlos Luck; Jonathan West; Vanessa Svihla; Joshua Murphy; Daniel Ray, “Small Group Learning Activities in Systems and Control Theory using Fidget Cars”, in Proc of 2018 Annual American Control Conference (ACC), Milwaukee, WI, USA, 27-29 June 2018, DOI: 10.23919/ACC.2018.8431464
- Amanquah, N., Ndede, S., “Code generation on Mobile for Mobile Apps”, Communications of the International Information Management Association (IIMA), Vol 15, No 2, 2017
- PhD Electrical Engineering, Strathclyde
- BSc Electrical Engineering, KNUST
