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🌍 Honored to be part of the 2025 K-CLUB World Conference at Korea University, Seoul Campus, on July 3-4, 2025!

As part of KU’s 120th anniversary celebrations, the Korea University Collaboration Hub (K-CLUB) brings together over 150 world leading researchers from 63 countries, uniting efforts to tackle global challenges under the theme: “Next Intelligence for Planetary Solution.”

I have the privilege to present our research works in the Sessions hosted at SK Future Hall, and I’m thrilled to contribute to this inspiring global interdisciplinary initiative.

🔗 Learn more: https://www.k-clubwc.org 

#KCLUB2025 #KoreaUniversity #PlanetarySolutions #GlobalResearch #AcademicCollaboration #ResearchForImpact #Merlec #Mpyana #Mwamba #멜렉

 I am thrilled to announce that I will be featured on Arirang Radio's "KOREA NOW" program alongside two incredible 2024 Seoul Honorary Citizenship Award recipients!🏅

The interview, hosted by the amazing Lee Seung Jae (SJ), delves into our experiences, inspirations, and the significance of being recognized with this prestigious award 🏅, which we proudly received on December 20, 2024.

📡 Broadcast Schedule:

- Date: January 27, 2025 (Monday, Lunar New Year Special!)

- Time: 7:00–7:55 PM KST

- Where to Listen: KOREA NOW, Arirang Radio

https://www.arirang.com/radio/126?lang=en

https://namu.wiki/w/Arirang%20Radio 

📅 Mark your calendars, and tune in to hear our stories! 🎤✨

Please find the replay link below:

https://arirang.com/radio/podcast/episode/99?lang=en

https://www.podbbang.com/channels/1775209/episodes/25083958 

#ArirangRadio #KoreaNOW #SeoulHonoraryCitizen #Merlec #멜렉 #LunarNewYear2025

• Acted as a mentor for KT Dream School Global Mentoring, a collaborative initiative between the Seoul Metropolitan Government and KT.

- Mentored youth through the KT Dream School Mentoring program, offering 1:1 foreign language and cultural classes in remote areas of Korea for years.

• Lectured at the KT Group Hope Sharing Foundation's Global Culture School.

- Contributed to global cultural education, promoting an unbiased worldview among Korean children and youth.

• Event: 2024 Honorary Citizenship Award Ceremony

- Host: Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) 

- Date Time: Dec. 26, 2024, Venue: Seoul City Hall, Seoul, South Korea

This recognition is a reflection of the power of education 📖 and cross-cultural understanding 🌐 to build bridges and inspire future generations 🚀. I am truly grateful for this incredible honor 🙏.

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• Main instructor for the "Python Programming for Data Science Course"

• Program: 2024 Sookmyung UNESCO UNITWIN Advanced Workshop (Digital)

• UNESCO UNITWIN for “Women’s Empowerment through ICT Skills and Leadership Education”.

- Host: APWINC Sookmyung University

- Date Time: Oct. 26, 2024, Venue: Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea

- Period:  Oct. 11~15, 2024

• As a former Executive President of DECOC (Dynamique de l'Elite Congolaise en Korea du Sud), I was honored to give a talk on the 10th anniversary of DECOC. Over the past 10 years, we've embarked on a remarkable journey filled with challenges, growth, and countless milestones. 

- Date Time: Oct. 26, 2024, Venue: Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea

- Host: DECOC (Congolese Elite Community in South Korea)

• Topic: Interesting and Successful Mentoring Guide [PPT Slides] 

- Date Time: April 25, 2024, Venue:  Hana Square Multimedia Hall, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea

- Host: KT Group Hope Sharing Foundation - (재)케이티그룹희망나눔재단

• BNU IT-Seminar 2024 (Online)

• Topic: Dynamic Consent Management Systems for GDPR Compliance: Opportunities and Challenges [PPT Slides] 

- Date Time: April 25, 2024, Venue:  Jeonbuk National University (JBNU), Jeonbuk, South Korea

- Host: Department of Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence, JBNU 

I am pleased to announce that our paper titled: "SC-CAAC: A Smart Contract-Based Context-Aware Access Control Scheme for Blockchain-Enabled IoT Systems" has been accepted to be published in the IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10454577

• ACK 2023 (Annual Conference of KIPS 2023)

• Topic: Blockchain-powered Secure and Trustworthy Big Data Analytics and Storage Technologies [PPT Slides] 

- Date Time: Nov. 03, 2023, Venue:  Pukyong National University (pknu.ac.kr) , Busan, South Korea

- Host: Korea Information Processing Society (KIPS)  

• The 14th International Conference on ICT Convergence - https://ictc.org/ 

• Paper: A Blockchain-based Trustworthy and Secure Review System for Decentralized e-Portfolio Platforms [PPT] [Demo]

- Oct.11 Wed. - 13 Fri. 2023

- Lotte Hotel, Jeju Island, Korea

- Host: The Korean Institutes of Communications and Information Sciences (KICS)

• 2022 IEEE Services - IEEE International Conference on Services Computing

• Paper: A Comparative Analysis of Proof-of-Authority Consensus Algorithms: Aura vs. Clique [Slides] 

- Date Time: July 11-15, 2022, Venue:  UPC - Terrassa Campus, Barcelona, Spain

- Host: IEEE Service Congress, IEEE Computer Society 

• Topic: Future Research collaboration and exchange programs 

- Date Time: July 13, 2022, Venue: Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), Paris, France

- Host: LISS Lab - ScTiC / TINCNet, UPEC 

• 2021 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain [Online Event]

• Paper: SmartBuilder: A Block-Based Visual Programming Framework for Smart Contract Development [Slides] 

 » SmartBuilder Framework [Web Site] [Presentation] [Demo]

- Date Time: Dec. 06-08, 2021, Venue:  Melbourne, Australia

- Host: IEEE Blockchain-2021

• Title: A Smart Contract-Enabled Dynamic Consent Management Scheme for GDPR Compliance 

 » [Presentation] [PPT] [Demo]

» Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 

- Date Time: May 18, 2022, Venue:  Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

- Host: Dep. of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Informatics, Graduate School, Korea Univesity.

• The 12th International Conference on ICT Convergence

• Paper: Towards Context-Aware Smart Contracts for Blockchain IoT Systems [Slides]

- Date Time: Oct. 20-22, 2021, Venue:  Ramada Plaza Hotel, Jeju, Korea

- Host: The Korean Institutes of Communications and Information Sciences (KICS)

• 2020 Korea-Africa Youth Forum [Incheon]

- Date Time: 2020.11.14 (Sat) 13:00 ~ 17:30,  Venue:  Orakai Songdo Park Hotel, Incheon, Korea

- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HkVmHAvKPc 

- Host: Korea-Africa Foundation 

• Seoul, South Korea, and Sydney, Australia

- Date Time: 2020.07.22 (Web) 15:00 ~ 17:00, Venue: Online

- Host: iBELab, Korea University Blockchain Research Institute 

- Date Time: 2020.07.22 (Web) 15:00 ~ 17:00, Venue : K4Security Seminar room 

- Host: K4-Security INC