TITLE (PROF/DR/): PROF.

NAME: OKUNUGA, SOLOMON ADEWALE

POSITION: PROFESSOR                                         SPECIALISATION: COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS

EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with Bachelor’s degree or other initial professional education, such as nursing, include postdoctoral training and residency training if applicable. Add/delete rows as necessary.)

1. Personal Statement

I started my career as an academic and a researcher dated back to 1984. I am a specialist in numerical methods and computational mathematics. I have over the years developed several numerical schemes for the solution of ordinary differential equations involving both initial and boundary value problems. Currently my research group is focusing on application of numerical methods to health and technological problems. In the course of my career as an academic, I have mentored and still mentoring many postgraduate students and have supervised over seven doctoral students of which some of them are now professor and top academics and researchers. I have passion for research and that also led to my appointment as the current Director of the Research Management Office of the University of Lagos.

1. Positions, Scientific Appointments, and Honours

• Director, Research Management Office, UNILAG (current)
• Registrar & CEO, Joint Universities Prelim. Exams Board (JUPEB), 2019-2024
• Director, Academic Planning, UNILAG,, 2016-2019
• Member, Nigerian Mathematical Society
• Member, Mathematical Association of Nigeria.
• Member, International Association of Engineers (IAENG), UK
• Scholar and Reviewer of several National and Foreign Mathematics Journals

1. Selected Most Recent Publications /Contributions to Knowledge

1. Olowe, R., Akinfenwa, O., Abdulganiy, R., & Okunuga, S. (2024). A trigonometrically fitted method for solving volterra integro-differential equations.: a trigonometrically fitted method. Journal of the Nigerian Mathematical Society, 43(2), 203-220.
2. Abdulganiy, R. I., Ramos, H., Osilagun, J. A., Okunuga, S. A., & Qureshi, S. (2023). A functionally-fitted block hybrid Falkner method for Kepler equations and related problems. Computational and Applied Mathematics, 42(8), 327.
3. Abdulganiy, R. I., Ramos, H., Okunuga, S. A., & Majid, Z. A. (2023). A trigonometrically fitted intra-step block Falkner method for the direct integration of second-order delay differential equations with oscillatory solutions. Afrika Matematika, 34(3), 36.
4. Soneye, R. A., Akinfenwa, O. A., Osilagun, J. A., & Okunuga, S. A. (2023). Three-step second derivative hybrid block backward differentiation formulae for solving system of differential algebraic equations (daes). unilag journal of mathematics and applications, 3, 81-101.
5. Ehigie J. O., Luan V. T., Okunuga S. A., You X. (2022). Exponentially fitted two-derivative DIRK methods for oscillatory differential equations. Applied Mathematics and Computation. 418, 126770.

1. Collaborators/ Networks (International inclusive)

Africa Numerical Research Group