Curriculum Vitae

CURRICULUM VITAE

AWONO ONANA UNIVERSITY PROFESS O R

KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF MERIT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

Mail : [email protected] [email protected]

CIVIL STATUS (Cf. Document 1)

 Nationality : Camerounian

 Born on : 19 avril 1955  Maried  04 Children

HIGHER EDUCATION (Cf. Document 2 et Document 3)

 Master of Science in Engineering – 1981

 Philosophae Doctor in Technical Sciences – 1984

UNIVERSITY CAREER (Cf. Document4, Document 5 et Document 6)

1984 - Assistant / Université de Yaoundé 1985 - Chargé de cours stagiaire / Université de Yaoundé 1986 - Chargé de Cours / Université de Yaoundé 1996 - Maître de conférences/ Université de Yaoundé I 2010 - Professeur d’Université / Université de Yaoundé I

UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION

 1988 – 1993 Head of Mathematics and Computer Science Department at the National Advanced School of Engineering / University of Yaoundé I (Document 7)  1993-2003 – Director of the Institute of Technology / University of Douala (Document 8)  2003-2017 – Director of the National Advanced School of Engineering / University of Yaoundé I (Document 9)  2014 - Coordinator of the Doctoral Research Unit in Engineering Sciences / University of Yaoundé I (Document 10)  2017- 2018 Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, University of Yaoundé I (Document 11)  2018-2019 Vice-Rector, University of Douala

PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS Projet Ma Fonction Début Fin Description Résultats obtenus et Observations WorldBank African Coordinator 01/11/201 02/10/2 This project conceived by us is one of the projects selected in a) As part of this project, three Center of Excellence in (Cf. Document 3 017 2013 by the World Bank, on a competitive basis, as part of particularly important results Information and 12 et its regional project of African Centers of Excellence in were obtained: Communication Document 13) Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. 1) Two international Technology, The maximum funding target for this indicator-based accreditations have been in short CETIC disbursement project is US $ 8 million. obtained, namely that of (www.cetic.cm)  The Financing Agreement signed in August 2014 the CTI and that of by Cameroon and the World Bank is referenced: HCERES: 5422-CM 2) The dynamics of  The main objective of this project is to make the generating financial University of Yaounde I a center of excellence in resources set up by us the fields of mathematical modeling and scientific has proved very computing, with fields of application health, effective: see appendix 3 infrastructure, water, energy, urban planning. b) We have set up an industrial My role as coordinator was to draw up the action plans prototyping program in submitted for approval to the National Steering Committee partnership with a CAD Center chaired by the Minister of Higher Education and to ensure India. For more details : the implementation of this action plan at the administrative, ( www.camerooncampaign.com) fiduciary and scientific levels.

CETIC Principal 02/10/ - My role is to ensure the coherence and performance of the More than 200 CETIC scientific Investigator 17 scientific action of CETIC around its theme Mathematical articles have been validated by (Cf. Document Modeling and Scientific Computing. the WorldBank 14) (Cf. Document 15) CETIC-C2D Coordinator 2016 2017 One of the objectives of the CETIC project was to contribute All the technical and architectural (Cf. Document to the development of an economic activity based on studies have been completed. 16) scientific computing. For this purpose, the project has We are in the procurement phase. planned to acquire a supercomputer. The problem was that the World Bank financing did indeed make it possible to acquire this supercomputer, but not to build the

infrastructure to install this precious instrument. We have therefore set up a new project that has been submitted for financing to the C2D France and Cameroon program. We have formally secured a € 2 million financing agreement for the construction of the Intensive Computing Center building. ERMIT Coordinator 2014 2019 This project conceived by us is one of the five projects The amount of funding acquired € Website : www.ermit- (Cf. Document selected by the European Union in November 2013 on the 2 510 000 to finance a total of acp.org 17) basis of a very competitive call for projects launched in early 132 mobilities in master and 2013 for the attention of all the universities of the Continent, doctorate and mobilities of as part of the INTRA-ACP program. teaching staff and administrative It is a mobility program at the master and doctorate levels staff. between the following universities: University of Yaounde I (Cameroon), University of Yaoundé II (Cameroon), University Cheikh Anta Diop (Senegal), University of Abomey Calavi ( Benin), Mohamed V University (Morocco), Mohamed I University (Morocco), Jimma University (Ethiopia), National School of Engineers of Tunis (Tunisia), CapeTown University (South Africa). AFRICOM Coordinator 2016 2021 This project conceived by us is one of the seven projects The amount of funding acquired € Website : www.afri- (Cf. Document selected by the European Union in November 2016 on the 1,491,450 to finance a total of 96 com.org 18) basis of a highly competitive call for projects for all the mobilities in master and doctorate universities of the Continent, within the framework of the and also mobility of teaching and INTRA-AFRICA program. administrative staff It is a mobility program at the master and doctorate levels between the following universities: University of Yaoundé I (Cameroon), University Cheikh Anta Diop (Senegal), University of KAIROUAN (Tunisia), National University of Nigeria (Nigeria), CapeTown University (South Africa).

Technical Training Coordinator 1998 31/12/ This project, conceived by us while I was Director of the The project was a resounding Project in Higher (Cf. Document 2002 University Institute of Technology at the University of success because all the objectives Education (PFTES) 19 et Douala, has received the full attention of the World Bank, were achieved:

Document 20) which has agreed to finance it for an amount of 5 million a) The infrastructures of the dollars. US dollars. IUT of Douala have been The objective of the project was to encourage the IUT of developed Douala to continue its implementation of a new model of b) The library has been public higher education more backed by the demand of modernized industrial circles and more successful in the professional c) The laboratories benefited integration of graduates and self-financing. from quality equipment The Financing Agreement signed in 1998 by Cameroon and The Training of Trainers Program the World Bank is referenced: Crédit IDA 3110-CM has produced 12 PhDs in Science and Technology Educational Sector Coordinator 2002 2004 We coordinated the design phase of this large project which The financing Agreement Support Program (Cf. Document involved all the ministries of the education sector in between the republic of (financed by the World 21) Cameroon. Cameroon and the Worlbank was Bank) – 2003-2005 (Letter With regard to higher education, the objectives were to put in signed in 2005 of Agreement Q 3880- place: CM) a) an interuniversity center for information and communication technologies b) a support fund for research and professionalization c) an interuniversity center for documentary resources d) a distance learning network The Financing Agreement signed by Cameroon and the World Bank is referenced: Crédit IDA 4070-CM Projet AGIR dans le Coordinator 2004 2008 The Highly Indebted Poor Countries Initiative, abbreviated All this development has made it cadre de l’Initiative (Cf. Document as HIPC, is a mechanism set up by the World Bank and the possible to increase the number of PPTE 22) International Monetary Fund with the aim of boosting the engineers trained in critical economic growth of African countries by substantially sectors for the Cameroonian reducing their public debt. economy and to develop doctoral The originality of the AGIR project funded under the HIPC training. framework in 2003 was to convince donors that higher education is a major sector of economic growth and the fight against poverty. The amount of financing: CFAF 5 billion (about US $ 10

million) Projet Zone Franche Coordinator(Cf 2010 2012 The Free University Zone project is set up to increase the Universitaire . Document 23) visibility, visibility and impact of Cameroonian training and technological research at national and international level. He is aiming. Specifically to:

(a) to strengthen Cameroon's capacity to produce, in critical mass, high-level specialists in scientific and technological fields and to make private investment attractive in areas of high scientific and technological intensity, thanks to the availability of highly skilled workforce; b) contribute to the emergence of regional centers of excellence, real locomotives for all educational systems in the sub-region and partners recognized and respected in the global network of know-how and innovation, operating in a framework specific and attractive regulations; (c) to support Cameroon's technological change by providing it, in an international environment, with a comparative advantage in certain technological sectors with high added value, both in terms of research itself and the applications resulting therefrom; MOSE-FIC Expert We conceived this project in the framework of a partnership Partnership agreement between Point Focal de with the University of Technologies of Troyes which the Technological University of l’Université de ensures the Coordination. Troyes and the University of Yaoundé I (Cf. The project was funded under the European ERASMUS Yaoundé I signed. Document 24) MUNDUS program for € 986,000. It aims to strengthen the capacity of a number of Cameroonian academic institutions in the field of accreditation and quality assurance

Projet Pôles d’excellence Expert auprès At the request of UNESCO, we have worked to generalize Approved by the Ministers in technologiques de l’UNESCO to the entire Central Africa subregion the project Free charge of Higher Education in universitaires en Afrique (Cf. Document University Zone originally designed by us for Cameroon ECCAS in 2012 by the Yaounde Centrale 25) alone. Declaration, It was adopted by The University Free Zone project has therefore been decision of the Heads of State and redesigned to lead to the regional project for the creation of Government of the Member States centers of excellence in university technology in the member of ECCAS (Document 26) countries of the Economic Community of Central African As UNESCO expert, we prepared States (ECCAS).. the financing request and the African Development Bank accepted to finance this project and to ensure the leadership of the donors. AFDB financing of study phase up to US $ 3 million Renforcement des Maître 2014 2017 We worked with UNIDO to strengthen the capacity of the a micro-hydro laboratory has been capacités en micro d’Œuvre (Cf. National Advanced School of Engineering to play the role of equipped. hydroélectricité Document 27) leader in the program of exploitation of the national A short-term training program for hydropower potential. capacity building in micro- hydropower has been running since 2017 CAD Facilitateur This original and very ambitious project was set up in More than 1,200 students have Website : partnership with the CAD Center India. The aim is to train already been trained in this www.camerooncampaign. students in the use of computer-aided design and drawing project com software to enable them to easily replicate existing technologies according to the industrial development model

that China has successfully experimented with. More than sixty software packages are available for this training and more than two hundred modules have been developed, with the possibility of passing international certifications on these software packages. These are short courses that are very popular with students and professionals. They also have the advantage of contributing to the generation of financial resources for the

establishment. Business Incubator Facilitateur We have set up a business incubator in a university setting to An obvious success this incubator help academics move forward with their small and medium- is the Cardiopad resulting from a sized enterprise projects. thesis dissertation of engineering We had the experience of creating a university company engineer. called PolytechValor https://www.parismatch.com/Actu (https://www.google.cm/search?source=hp&ei=-blzW_- /Sante/Son-invention-va- VHM- bouleverser-le-coeur-de-la- PmwXEuqy4Ag&q=PolytechValor&oq=PolytechValor&gs_ planete-630486 l=psy- ab.3..0i10k1.1564.6478.0.7838.14.10.0.3.3.0.249.1762.0j5j4 Another obvious success of this .9.0....0...1c.1.64.psy- incubator is the TECHNIPEDIA ab..2.12.1797.0..0j35i39k1j0i67k1j0i131k1j0i3k1.0.YZDv2u platform, which aims to 95gpA) revolutionize the creation of SMEs. (http://www.technipedia.com/Tec hnipedia-/) In total, more than 300 SME projects have been incubated since 2012 Technical Support Facilitateur 2013 The purpose of this project is to familiarize learners with the A training of trainers program Center for Innovation (Cf Document exploitation of industrial property resources. In general, successfully executed. 52) Africans are ignorant of this gold mine. Several training sessions were China has shown that often solutions to problems exist and held with the support of the that it is enough to know how to emulate what already exists World Intellectual Property to advance. Organization. The objective of this project is to encourage Africans to industrial prototyping techniques to advance their industrial sector. Knowing how to exploit the resources of industrial property is an important step towards this goal. International Team Leader One of the performance indicators assigned to the We have succeeded :

Accreditation of Training (Cf Documents University of Yaoundé I is the international accreditation of 1) HCERES accreditation, and research 28, 29, 30, trainings. 2) CTI accreditation 31,32 et We have prepared the National Advanced School of 3) RH-Excellence Documents 33, Enginering for HCERES accreditation, CTI accreditation accreditation 34) and RH-Excellence accreditation Internationalization of Expert An important mission entrusted to us by the University of We have designed numerous training and research at Yaoundé I for the internationalization of training and international mobility projects, the University of research at the University of Yaoundé I some financed by the World Bank Yaoundé I and others by the European Union. In this regard, we mention the projects CETIC (US $ 8 million), ERMIT (€ 2510,000), AFRICOM (€ 1,494,450) and MOSE-FIC (€ 986,000). We won the call for tenders issued by the Gambian State to select a university to train the Gambian technical staff. This activity brought over 134 million FCFA to the University of Yaoundé I. (Document 35, Document 36) Tuning Africa Expert This continental project supported by the European Union More than 120 universities are (Document 37) and the African Union aims at the harmonization of training involved in this project. courses in higher education in Africa. We are responsible for the It is the skills-based approach that drives a dynamic of Mechanical Engineering group. setting up an African Higher Education Area. We are co-editor of a book on This expertise confirms our ability to design innovative Tuning Africa (Document 38) programs in line with the needs of employers. 3D Printing Project Coordinator 2015 2017 This vital project aims to set up a modern three-dimensional The redevelopment of the (Documents printing center at the National Advanced School of premises has begun. 40, 41, 42) Engineering. The equipment is expected at the

The idea was adopted by the President of the Republic of beginning of November. Cameroon who accepted it and ordered its financing up to 2 The Center should be operational billion eight hundred million FCFA. The technical partners by the end of December 2018. are Israeli. The higher level object is to accelerate the appropriation of the usual technologies by prototyping. This project is therefore related to the CAD prototyping project set up with the partnership with CAD Center India and the CATI project aimed at controlling the exploitation of industrial property resources. Development of the Member of the 2005 2006 We have been a member of this team and have contributed This document approved by the education strategy Team to the higher education development strategy. donors was the basis of the (Document 43) commitment of technical and financial partners for the development of Cameroonian higher education. In particular, the Program of Support to the Technological and Professional Component of Higher Education at a cost of 31 billion FCFA is a result. Programme Coordinator 1995 1998 This program, funded by the French Government, aimed to The program supported d’Ajustement Structurel (Documents raise some of the flagship institutions of higher education at infrastructure rehabilitation at the (Volet Education) 44, 45) a time when the devaluation of the FCFA and the ensuing National Advanced School of economic crisis have reduced the room for maneuver of the Engineering (University of Cameroonian government in the field of education. Higher Yaoundé I) and the University Education. Institute of Technology (University of Douala). Amount of financing: one billion five hundred million It also supported the running of FCFA. these two great schools. It is the irreproachable management of this project that earned me a letter of congratulation from the French

President Jacques Chirac with the collation of the medal of Knight of the Order of Merit of the French Republic. Panafrican Online Coordinator of 2006 2008 The objective of this pan-African project initiated within the Two virtual universities have Services Project the framework of the India-African Union Cooperation was: been installed, one national and Cameroonian 1) provide a solution to the massification of higher the second sub-regional. design team education through an online educational offer A telemedicine center connected 2) contribute to the improvement of health services to Indian hospitals has been through an offer of online services installed at the University Hospital Center of Yaoundé. 3) facilitating diplomatic exchanges through online services A center for telediplomacy has been installed in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Network of Excellence of Founding The network brings together prestigious institutions from the The cooperation within the Engineering Sciences of Member French-speaking world: L’Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de RESCIF permitted : La Francophonie (Document 50) Lausanne (Suisse), L’Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal to develop digital educational (RESCIF) (Canada), l’Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique de Dakar resources such as MOOCS; (Sénégal), L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure Polytechnique de https://www.rescif.net/projets/mo Yaoundé (Cameroun), L’Ecole Mohamedia d’Ingénieurs de ocs/ Rabat (Maroc), l’Institut Polytechnique de Ho CHI MINH Ville (Vietnam). To create joint labs:: Voir https://www.rescif.net/ Le Centre Asiatique de Recherche sur l’Eau (CARE) https://www.rescif.net/projets/lab oratoires-conjoints/care/

Le Centre d’Etudes sur la Sécurité Alimentaire et les Molécules Fonctionnelles

(CESAM) https://www.rescif.net/projets/lab oratoires-conjoints/cesam/ le Centre Universitaire de Recherche en Energie pour la santé (CURES) Piloté par l’Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne et l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure Polytechnique de Yaoundé https://www.rescif.net/projets/lab oratoires-conjoints/cures/ le Centre de Recherche et d’Appui aux Politiques Urbaines (CRAPU) https://www.rescif.net/projets/lab oratoires-conjoints/crapu/

LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS (last years)

1. Jimbo, H. C., Takeru Suzuki, T., Jesus Pascal, Charles Awono, Achille Mbassi, Pascal Foumane (2018). Computing MDR-Game with Applications to Real Data. Journal of Computer Science. http://thescipub.com/abstract/10.3844/ofsp.12064 2. Jimbo Claver, Edris Hamraz, Jawad Azimi, Charles Awono (2018). Optimal Allocation of QoS and Web Services in Cloud Computing. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajis/6/1/4/index.html 3. Jimbo, H. C., Ngongo, I. S., Andjiga, N. G., Suzuki, T., & Onana, C. A. (2017). Portfolio Optimization under Cardinality Constraints: A Comparative Study. Open Journal of Statistics, 7(04), 731. 4. Yannick U. Tchantchou Samen, Eugene C. Ezin and Charles O. Awono. An Approach of Re-ranking Search Results based on a Dynamic and Hybrid Modeling of User Profile. International Journal of Computer Applications 158(4):1-7, 2017. 5. Charles AWONO and al. La réforme de gouvernance au Cameroun : Entre régulation forte et privatisation in La gouvernance dans l’enseignement supérieur : quelles politiques, avec quels effets ?, sous la direction de Michaela Martens, IIPE, 2015 6. Charles Awono Onana and Al. Collaborative meta-profile development to harmonise mechanical engineering education in Africa, Tuning Journal for Higher Education, vol 2, Issue 1, 2014 7. Charles AWONO ONANA and al. Tuning and Harmonisation of Higher Education : The African Experience. 2014 8. C.M. Ngabireng , C. Menye, F. S. Kouam, H. N. Ntede, J. Tagoudjeu, Awono Onana, Drug Design And Analysis In Silico of Sapelenin G, an Acyclic Triterpenoid as Potential Anti-Inflammatory. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology. Vol. 2(4). Pp. 66-72 9. Charles AWONO and al. Collaborative meta-profile development to harmonise mechanical engineering education in Africa. 2015 10. Awono Onana and J. Tagoudjeu, A Preconditioned Minimal Residual solver for a class of linear operator equations, Computational methods in applied mathematics, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp 119-136, (2010).

11. Awono Onana and J. Tagoudjeu, A SOR acceleration of self-adjoint and m-accretive splitting iterative solver for 2-D Neutron Transport Equation, Math.Model.Nat. Phenom., Vol. 5, No. 7, pp 60-66, (2010). 12. Awono Onana and J. Tagoudjeu: “Iterative Methods for a Class of Linear Operator Equations”, Int. J. Contemp. Math. Sci., Vol. 4, No. 12, pp. 549-564 (2009). 13. Awono Onana and J. Tagoudjeu: “A Splitting Iterative Method for Solving the Neutron Transport equation”, Mathematical Modelling and Analysis, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 271-289 (2009) 14. Awono Onana and J. Tagoudjeu: “A SOR acceleration of Self-Adjoint and m-Accretive Splitting Iterative Solver for 2-D Neutron Transport Equation”, Math. Model. Nat. Phenom., Vol. 5, No. 7, pp. 60-66 (2010). 15. Awono Onana and J. Tagoudjeu: “ A self-adjoint and m-accretive splitting iterative method for the solution of neutron transport equation in 1-D spherical geometry”, CARI09, Proceeding of 9th African Conference on Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (Eds. E. Badouel, A. Sbihi, M.K. Assogba), pp 331-338, (2008); 16. Awono Onana and J. Tagoudjeu: “A Minimal Residual Iterative Solver for Neutron Transport Equation”, Int. J. Contemp. Math. Sci., Vol. 4, No. 34, pp. 1671-1684 (2009). 17. Awono Onana and J. Tagoudjeu: “A Preconditioned Minimal Residual Solver for a Class of Linear Operator Equations”, Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 119--136 (2010). 18. Article: Collaborative meta-profile development to harmonise mechanical engineering education in Africa. 19. Samuel M. Sackey, Venkata Ramayya Ancha, Moses P. M. Chinyama, Charles Awono Onana, Conference Paper: Reforming Mechanical Engineering Higher Education in Africa for Increased Industry Relevance, 20. Raidandi Danwe, Samuel Mensah Sackey, Mahammad Megahed, Charles Awono Onana, Conference Paper: Tuning mechanical Engineering Higher Education in Africa towards Unified quality and Accreditation 21. Raidandi Danwe, Samual Mensah Sackey, André Müller, Venant Kayibanda, Shadreck Chama, Beatrice Delpouve, Mohammad Megahed, Venkata Ancha, Charles Awono Onana, Conference Paper: Tuning Mechanical Engineering Higher Education in Africa toward Unified Quality and Accreditation. 22. Samuel Mensah Sackey, Mohamed Megahed, Venkata Ramayya Ancha, Delpouve, Charles Awono Onana, Reforming Mechanical

Engineering Higher Education in Africa for Increased Industry Relevance

STAGES DIVERS

Objet Début Fin Lieu Référence Stage Postdoctoral en mathématiques 20.09.1988 16.02.1989 Université Lomonossov de Document 46 computationnelles Moscou Stage en gestion de projet sur la thématique 29.10.2001 09.11.2001 SETYM/Casablanca Document 47 ’’Indicateurs de Performance’’ Stage en gestion de projet sur la thématique 11.03.2002 22.03.2002 SETYM/Casablanca Document 51 ’’Planification Opérationnelle et Contrôle de Projet’’ Stage sur le thème : ’’Transforming Tertiary 22.03.2010 26.03.2010 WorlBank Institute, Document 48 Education for Innovation and Competitiveness Washington Course’’ Stage sur le thème : ’’Techniques et Outils de 07.06.1998 13.06.1998 FACEM/Yaoundé Document 49 Management de Projet’’