Prof. John Kolo Alhassan is a Professor of Computer Science. He completed his PhD in 2014 from Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria and became a professor in 2020. He was a research fellow at the United Institute of Informatics Problems, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (UIIP NASB) Minsk, Republic of Belarus. He has held several administrative positions such as Level Adviser, Project Coordinator, Departmental Examination Officer, Postgraduate Coordinator, School Examination Officer, Head of Department (Cyber Security Science), Deputy Director, Academic Planning Unit and currently the Director of Academic Planning. He has served in several committees at the Departmental, School, University and National levels, notable among which are Chairman, School of ICT New Departments Committee, Chairman, SICT Scrutiny Committee, Member, Committee to Develop ICT Policy Document for Federal University of Technology, Minna, Member, University Research and Ethic Committee, Federal University of Technology, Minna and Member, TETFund Technical Advisory Group (TAG). He has over 80 publications in national and international journals and conferences. He has supervised several Undergraduate, PGD, MTech. and PhD students.
The DAP has also served as external examiner to several polytechnics and universities in the country. He served as a resource person to the National Universities Commission (NUC) in the resource verification and accreditation of programmes in several universities in the country. He is a member, Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN), Nigeria, Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), and Internet Society (ISOC).
