Celestine Iwendi

Celestine Iwendi is a professor of artificial intelligence and the head of the Centre of Intelligence of Things (CIoTh) at the University of Bolton. His research focuses on the application of artificial intelligence to the Internet of Things (IoT), network security, privacy-preserving data methods for medical and IoMT (Internet of Medical Things) applications, and sustainable AI for socio-technical systems.

Education According to university and professional profiles, Iwendi completed undergraduate and master's studies in electrical/electronic engineering at Nnamdi Azikiwe University (Nigeria), obtained further postgraduate training including a master's-level qualification at Uppsala University (Sweden), and earned a PhD in Electrical/Electronics Engineering from the University of Aberdeen.

Academic career Iwendi has held academic and research appointments in UK and international institutions and is listed as Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Head of the Centre of Intelligence of Things at the University of Bolton (CIoTh).

Research Iwendi's published research spans applied artificial intelligence, IoT/IoMT security, privacy-preserving text sanitization for medical data, and machine learning applications in healthcare and communications.

Major themes in his research include: Privacy-preserving data sanitization for free-text clinical records and unstructured medical datasets (semantic sanitization frameworks).

Selected publications

Professional affiliations and honours Senior Member, IEEE (Senior Member).