Sampson D. Asare
Full-time Faculty, Computer Science & Information Systems
Sampson D Asare graduated from University of Oslo, Norway with B.Sc. (Computer Science). and M.Phil. (Computer Science) and has taught in University of Botswana for over 20 years before joining Ashesi University, where he is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems.
His research interests are within the areas of Graph Theory and Algorithmic Efficiency as well as in Computer Graphics education in developing countries. He has taught many different subjects ranging from Algorithm Design & Analysis, Computer Graphics, Programming Languages, Automata Theory to mention a few.
Sampson has a passion for teaching and one of his philosophies is to engage his students in critical thinking and to be good citizens. Current engaged in the following projects: 1. AI-Driven Automated Grading: Evaluation of Handwritten and Descriptive Type Assessments for Fairness and Exploring Ethical Concerns ( Sampson D Asare, Dr. R. Y. Govindha & Dr. Ayorkoh Korsah) 2. Intelligent Health Pod and Smart-Shirt for Remote African Regions: A case of Ghana (Dr.David Ebo. Adjepon-Yamoah , Dr. Tatenda Kavu, Sampson D Asare & et. al) 3. “Twafo Treasures: Uncovering the Heritage Sites of Berekuso” – ( PI: Ebenezer Obiri Addo, Sampson D. Asare , et. al)
- Algorithm Design & Analysis
- Computer Graphics
- Graph Algorithms and Algorithmic Efficiency
- Computer Graphics Education in Developing Countries
- Sampson D. Asare & Gopolang, “Experiences and Reflections on teaching large Introductory Java Programming Course to First Year Information Systems Undergraduate Students”,Fourth International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Technologies (CCICT), 2021, ISBN: 978-1-6654-2392, IEEE DOI 10.1109/CICT53244.2021.00045, pp 187 – 193, July 2021
- Sampson D. Asare, & Phyela Mbewe, CMedia Compressor – An application to graphically compare general compression algorithms and Adaptive Huffman compression algorithm, International Conference on Intelligent and Innovative Computing Applications ( ICONIC) 2018, Plaine Magnien, Mauritius, ISBN 978-1-5386-6476-6 Dec 6th – 7th, pp 7 – 13, 2018
- Phyela Mbewe & Sampson D. Asare, Analysis and comparison of adaptive Huffman coding and arithmetic coding algorithms 2017 13th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (ICNC-FSKD), 29-31 July 2017, Guilin, China, pp. 178 – 185, IEEE Xplore Digital Library, DOI: 10.1109/FSKD.2017.8393036
- D. Asare, “Factors affecting the adoption of Big Data analysis and Cloud Computing by SMEs in Developing African Countries – Case Study of Ghana”, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Discovery, e-ISSN: 2231-0312, Vol. 6, No(2), pp 7 – 12, 2016
- Sampson D. Asare, Petros M. Mashwama & Steve Cunningham, “Building Computer Graphics Education in Developing African Countries” Computer & Graphics, Vol (27) 3, pp 369 – 372, June 2003.
- MPhil. (Computer Science), University of Oslo, Norway
- MSc. (Computer Science), University of Oslo, Norway
