Alexander Akoto-Danso : works as an Assistant Research Scientist
at the Ghana Space and Technology Institute. He holds a Master's in
Computational Nuclear Science and Engineering (2011) and holds a
Bsc. Mathematics. (2006) His interest is in High-performance
Computing, Parallel computing, Computational Engineering, Digital
Signal Processing, Climate modelling, Industrial and Systems
engineering. He is a member of the Ghana Nuclear Society.
Severin Azankpo : works at GAEC as the head of Mechanical
Department. He has BSc. Mechanical Engineering at Kwame
Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He has worked in
different companies as a role of project engineer with rich experience
in design, fabrication and installatiojn of steel structures. His main
research interest is in Mechanical and Structural engineering of
antenna. He is currently working on how to quantify the pointing
accuracy and tracking performance of radio telescope structures.
Emmanuel Proven- Adzri : is working as an Assistant Research
Scientist at Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute. He has
Masters in Computational Nuclear Science and Engineering and a
BSc. in Physics. His research interest includes Instrumentation in
Radio Astronomy, Methanol Masers, Radio Interferometry and
Computational Modeling.
Marcellin Atemkeng : holds a MSc Computer Sc. and BSc
Mathematics and Computer Sc. His research interest includes
Networking, Structure Documents, Workflow Systems, Simulation,
Signal Correlation Algorithm Techniques, Synthesis Imaging in Radio
Interferometry Arrays and Data Reduction.
Theophilus Ansah-Narh : is working as an Assistant Research
Scientist at Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute. He has
MPhil in Statistics, MPhil Computational Nuclear Science and
Engineering and also, BSc. Mathematics and Computer Science. His
research interest includes Radio Interferometry, Stochastic Modeling,
Bayesian Analysis, Computational Mathematics and Parallel
Computing.
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