Aliyu Makama received his bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from Bayero university kano, Nigeria in 2012. He then proceeded to obtain his Master degree in Microelectronic and Communications Engineering at University of Northumbria Newcastle, United Kingdom in the year 2017. The focus of his thesis then was in the area of Visible Light Communication.
In 2019, he secured a fully funded scholarship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) in collaboration with the Nigerian Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) to pursue his PhD in the area of Wireless Seismic Data Acquisition Networks, with focus on oil and gas exploration/monitoring application scenario, which he completed in June 2024. He is currently a research fellow at the Institute of Communication Networks, Hamburg University of Technology.
Research Topics
Wireless sensor networks for seimic data acquisition
Wireless ad hoc networks
Publications
2026
Promises and risks in using LLMs in scientific review Kuladinithi, Koojana; Fuger, Konrad; Makama, Aliyu; Timm-Giel, Andreas; Kiener, Maximilian; Bozenhard, Jonas 24th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events, IEEE PerCom Workshops 2026 Publisher DOI
2025
Unforeseen silly errors in network simulations and visualizations Kuladinithi, Koojana; Shudrenko, Yevhenii; Makama, Aliyu; Fisser, Leonard; Timm-Giel, Andreas 23rd IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events, IEEE PerCom Workshops 2025 Publisher DOI