Research Scientist

Electronics Division

CSIR-INSTI

Address: Augustino Neto Rd. Council Close, Airport Residential Area, GA-038-2663

Tel: +233558573965, +233503493435

Email: dennisgookyi@gmail.com

Webpages: Google Scholar | ResearchGate | ORCID | GitHub

Education

• Ph.D. in Information and Communication Engineering, Hanbat National University, South Korea, 2021.​

• M.Eng. in Information and Communication Engineering, Hanbat National University, South Korea, 2017.

• B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, 2013.

Employment

• Research Scientist, CSIR-INSTI, Ghana, 2022 – Present.

• Part-time Lecturer, Ghana Communication Technology University (GCTU), Ghana, 2022 – Present.

• Researcher, Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI), South Korea, 2021 – 2022.

• Research and Teaching Assistant, SoC Design Lab, Hanbat National University, South Korea, 2014 – 2021.

• RTL Design Engineer, Future Systems, South Korea, 2015 – 2016.

• Teaching Assistant, Computer Engineering Department, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, 2013 – 2014.

• Front Office Data Engineer Intern, Huawei Technologies, Vodafone Network Operation Center, Ghana, 2013 – 2013.

Awards

• WINNER CERTIFICATE Innovate for Impact Use case, Awarded for our use case titled "AI-Enabled Soil Analysis and Weather Station for Local Farmers” under the category of Smart Agriculture, Nov. 2025

• Problem Statement Winner (1st place) (Next-Gen tinyML Smart Weather Station), AI for Good Next-Gen tinyML Smart Weather Station Challenge 2024, May. 2024

• Best Paper Award (Precision Agriculture Deep Neural Network Driven Multi-Hop Plant Image Noisy Data Transmission and Plant Disease Detection), IEEE International Conference on Signal, Image, Video and Communications (ISIVC), May. 2024

• Best Paper Award (The Verification of the Internal Operation of a RISC-V 32-bit Integer ISA using an FPGA Board), International Conference on Next-generation Convergence Technology, Jan. 2021

• Best Paper Award (Generating Shared Keys for Low-Cost Hardware Devices), International Conference on Next-generation Convergence Technology, Jan. 2019

• Best Paper Award (An FPGA-based Verification of a Lightweight Cryptographic System), Fall Conference on Next Generation Convergence Technology, Oct. 2018

• Full Scholarship for Doctoral Degree by Research, Hanbat National University, South Korea, Mar. 2017 – Aug. 2021

• Full Scholarship for Master’s Degree by Research, Hanbat National University, South Korea, Aug. 2014 – Feb. 2017