1. RESEARCH INTERESTS (but not limited to): Cyber Security - Artificial Intelligence (AI)– AI/Digital Governance

Our projects include: (1) detection of misinformation, (2) detection of social engineering attacks, (3) detection of Android

malware (4) detection of vulnerabilities and WSN security. (5) Reinforcement learning based Identification of phishers

through biological voice features. Throughout the research process, we exploit mathematical concepts about

steganography, game theory, Markov chains, and graph theory. I have supervised so far more than 30 (inter-) national

Master students and currently co-supervise 10+ Ph.D. students. The different projects are available at

https://cycomai.com/projects.html and subjects are available at https://cycomai.com/supervision.html.

[3] Tchakounté, F.; Yera Pagor, A.E.; Kamgang, J.C.; Atemkeng, M.: CIAA-RepDroid: A Fine-Grained and

Probabilistic Reputation Scheme for Android Apps Based on Sentiment Analysis of Reviews. Future Internet, 12,

145. 2020

[4] Franklin Tchakounté, Priva Chassem Kamdem, Jean Claude Kamgang, Hortense Boudjou Tchapgnouo, Marcellin

Atemkeng : An Efficient DCT-SVD Steganographic Approach Applied to JPEG Images. EAI Endorsed Transactions

on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems 2020. DOI 10.4108/eai.28-9-2020.166365

[5] Franklin Tchakounté, Calvin Koudanbe Amadou, Ado Adamou Abba Ari, David Jaures Fotsa Mbogne: A smart

contract logic to reduce hoax propagation across social media. Journal of King Saud University - Computer and

Information Sciences. Elsevier 2020

[6] Franklin Tchakounte, Virgile Simé Nyassi, Duplex Elvis Houpa Danga, Kalum Priyanath Udagepola, Marcellin

Phishing. International Journal of Information Security Science, vol. 9, No.1, pp.44-63 2020

[9] Franklin Tchakounte, Michael Nakoe, Blaise Omer Yenke, Kalum Priyanath Udagepola: Recognizing Illegitimate

Access Points Based on Static Features: a Case Study in a Campus Wifi Network. International Journal of Cyber-

Security and Digital Forensics, 2019 8(4): 279-291

[10] Brima, Yusuf, Marcellin Atemkeng, Stive Tankio Djiokap, Jaures Ebiele, and Franklin Tchakounté: Transfer

Learning for the Detection and Diagnosis of Types of Pneumonia including Pneumonia Induced by COVID-19

from Chest X-ray Images. Diagnostics, 2021, 11(8): 1480. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11081480

[11] Franklin Tchakounte, Jim Carlson Teukeng Ngnintedem, Irepran Damakoa, Faissal Ahmadou, Franck Arnaud

Kuate Fotso, Crawl-shing: A Focused Crawler for Fetching Phishing Contents based on Graph Isomorphism.

I have been involved in several conferences (2016: Conference on Informatics and Systems (INFOS), 2019: IEEE

International Conference on Natural and Engineering Sciences for Sahel's Sustainable Development) as reviewer. Since

2017, I serve as volunteer reviewer in IEEE Access, IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and

Systems and AFRICOMM, ICOFLAS, JOECR, JPRI, African Conference on Information Systems and Technology, IEEE

International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications, and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCME 2021).

EAI AFRICOMM 2021 - TPC member; International Conference on Computer Science, Electronics and Industrial

Engineering (CSEI 2022) - Scientific committee member. I serve as external examiner of Master proposal at British

University in Egypt. I gave a lecture at Summer Institute in Computational Social Science

(https://sicss.io/2022/jias/people), Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Data Sciences School (CIMPA 2022) -

Main: MSc. (2010, University of Ngaoundéré, Cameroon), PhD (2015, University of Bremen, Germany)

Complementary Trainings: Professional research, research writing (AuthorAid)

Certifications: CCNA(CISCO), LPI1(LPI), SuSe, ITE INSTRUCTOR (CISCO), AI Strategy and Governance, Digital

Transformation (University of Virginia, BCG), Introduction to cybersecurity tools & cyberattacks (IBM), AI Strategy and

Governance (University of Pennsylvania), Introduction to Cybersecurity (CISCO Networking Academy)

5. INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS

I have been involved in international projects as leader and member: Internet health: speed, affordability, and safety

6. GRANTS AND AWARDS

Fellowships: Mobility fellowship: Ministry of Higher Education Cameroon (2015), DAAD Staff Exchange Fellowships in

Sub-Saharan-Africa (2021), F.A.S.T project grant (2016), 2021 class EAI senior member award (2022), Research Fellow

Cyber Defense Africa Forum, Cameroonian Representative RAIN-Africa, Re

7. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

cybersecurity and data intelligence theories with a strong background in distributed systems. He received his M.Sc. in

administration including SuSe, CCNA, LPI, IBM/CISCO cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, and AI strategy &

governance. He authored books, book chapters, and several research papers in the area of cyber security. I am the

founder of the Cybersecurity with Computational and Artificial Intelligence (CyComAI, www.cycomai.com) company. He

is a fellow of DAAD Staff Exchange in Sub-Saharan Africa, Research Mobility grants in the Ministry of Higher Education

in Cameroon, and the WebWeWant F.A.S.T project. Devoted to volunteering in journal and conference scientific duties, I

courses (2) ensuring the well-functioning of online systems put in place.

8. COMMUNITIES INVOLVEMENT

(1) President of the Association of Mathematicians and Computer Scientists Graduated at the University of Ngaoundéré

(2012-2016)

(2) Manager of GDG (Google Developer Group), Ngaoundéré (2013-2014)

(3) Member of Chapter of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, University of Ngaoundéré (Since 2013)

(4) Member of AuthorAid (https://www.authoraid.info) (Since 2016)

(5) Leader Open Web Application Security Program Community (OWASP) / Ngaoundéré Chapter (Since 2016)

(12) Cameroon Representative of Responsible Artificial Intelligence for Africa (RAIN) (Since 2022)

(13) Member Research Data Alliance (www.rd-alliance.org), Africa Association of Entrepreneurs (AAE) (Since 2022)

(14) African Scientists Directory (https://africanscientists.africa/) (Since 2022)

(15) International association for the engineers and the computer scientists (IAENG) societies (http://www.iaeng.org/)

9. LECTURING ACTIVITIES

Main lectures (Home University: University of Ngaoundéré) (since 2011-)

Data science (Master), Security in networks and systems (Master), Parallel programming (Master), Formal verification

(Master), Object Oriented Programming (Bachelor), Mobile Operating Systems (Bachelor), Computer Architecture

1) Higher School of Computer Science, University of Nazi Boni. Lectures: Audit of system and network security,

2) IBAM. Lectures: Cybersecurity (Master) Contact person: Dr Dimitri Ouattara j.s.dimitri.ouattara@gmail.com

3) Expert consultant for research activities - University of Nazi Boni & University Aube Nouvelle

Cameroon (2017 -):

1) Business and Engineering School, Douala (2017-2018) Lecture: Distributed System (Master) Contact person: Mr.

2) Saint Jerome Catholic University (2018-), Douala Lectures: Decision making systems, artificial intelligence,

3) AIMS Cameroon, Limbe (2018-) Research activities contact person: Pr Mama Foupouagnigni

5) Higher School of Trainers, Bertoua (2020, -) Lectures: System and Network Administration, Cybersecurity

AUF.CNF Contact person, M. Gaetan Efouba, izanefg@gmail.com

Senior trainer

(1) Pr. Tiguiane Yélémou, Director of Higher School of Computer Science, University of Nazi Boni, Bobbo Dioulasso,

(2) Dr Jean Serge Dimitri Ouattara, Institute Burkinabè des Arts et des Métiers (IBAM), University of Ouaga 1, Burkina

(3) Dr Marcellin Atemkeng, Coordinator Rhodes Artificial Intelligence Research Group (RAIRG), Department of

(4) Pr. Samy Ghoniemy, Vice Dean, Postgraduate Studies and Research, Faculty of Informatics and Computer Science

(5) Pr. Kalum Priyanath Udagepola, Director/Senior Principal Research Fellow, Department of Information and

The collaboration’s details are available are https://cycomai.com/collaborations.html.

11. FUNDING

1. Project about detection of fake news and professional exchange at the University of Rhodes, South Africa. Funded by

DAAD, 2022

2. Organization of international conference SAFER-TEA, https://safertea.eai-conferences.org/2023/. Funded by

European Alliance for Innovation 2022

12. REFERENCES

(3) Pr. Achille Ntyam, Director of studies, Higher Teacher Training College, University of Yaoundé I,

ntyam_achille@yahoo.fr

(4) Pr. Daniel Tieudjo, Director of the AIMS Teacher Training Program in Cameroon, tieudjo@yahoo.com

(5) Dr. Marcellin Atemkeng, Rhodes University, m.atemkeng@ru.ac.za, m.atemkeng@gmail.com

(6) Claude Fachkha, University of Dubai (UAE), New York University Abu Dhabi (UAE), and Concordia University