Kofi Sarpong Adu-Manu completed Prempeh College, Kumasi-Ghana, in 2002 as a Science student. He received his Bachelor of Science (BSc) from Valley View University, Oyibi-Accra, Ghana, in 2007, Master of Philosophy from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, in 2013 and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Ghana, Legon-Accra, in 2020. Kofi was the first to graduate with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Ghana and was the Valedictorian of his graduating class.
He joined the Department of Computer Science, Valley View University (VVU) in 2008 and rose through the ranks from Teaching Assistant, Senior Research Assistant, Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer to Senior Lecturer. He served as the Head Department of the Information Technology Department at VVU from October 2019 till October. In February 2020, he joined the Department of Computer Science, the University of Ghana as a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science.
Kofi is a member of IEEE, ACM, and has served as a Board Member of the Clute Institute, USA. He was one of the University of Rochester (UoR) Ph.D. scholarship awardees in 2015 to study in UoR. Kofi received a research grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York through the University of Ghana to support early-career faculty research capacity development under its “Building a New Generation of Academics – BANGA Africa project”. He was also one of the University of Oldenburg and University of Ghana partnership projects known as the DEMIS mobility program researcher.
He is a Youth Member of Parliament (YMP) for Ayawaso Central Constituency for the United Nations Youth Association (UNYA), Ghana. Kofi is a selfless leader, an inspiration to his colleagues, and a mentor to many youths. He is hardworking with a high sense of integrity, and at leisure, he surfs the Internet, watches movies, and dances.
Computer Science, Education