Bamidele Adebisi is a Professor in Intelligent Infrastructure Systems, and the Head of the Smart Infrastructure and Industry Research (SIIR) Group, Department of Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University. One of his projects with SMEs won the overall prize for UK Best Knowledge Transfer Partnership in September 2020.  He has been part of multi-partner, multi-country projects. Examples include Innovate UK IoT for smart cities (Citiverve, £10M), EU H2020 project on Smart Cities (Triangulum, €29M), EPSRC micro-grid for energy management (£700K), EPSRC UK-S/Korea Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading & Sharing (£1M), UK-Canada -Energy IQ (£2.7M), etc. He is currently working as Academic Lead on Nigeria Intelligent Clean Energy Marketplace (NICE Energi), a £600K UK-Nigeria Partnership to develop sustainable energy management system for a community in Nigeria, funded by the DFID. 

He received a Master’s degree in advanced mobile communication engineering and Ph.D. in communication systems both from Lancaster University, UK. Before that, he had a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.  His research is in embedding sensing, communication, control, and data analytic technologies in critical infrastructure. He has published over 130 peer-review papers and given over 20 talks/ panel discussions in the research areas of Internet of Things (IoT), smart cities, smart grids, peer to peer energy trading and sharing, Electric Vehicles (V2X/CAVs), PLC/wireless communication and Cybersecurity. 

Bamidele is a Fellow of IET,  Fellow of Higher Education Academy, Senior member of IEEE,  and a Chartered Engineer.