Biography
Richard Lomotey, Ph.D., associate professor of Information Sciences and Technology, teaches information technology, cybersecurity, and computer science courses on object-oriented design and software applications, network security, computer and cyber forensics, systems programming, elementary mathematical statistics, and database management and administration.
With a focus on classroom learning with community impact, Dr. Lomotey empowers students to harness technology for the greater good, supports regional health and agricultural projects, and promotes innovations that matter — locally and globally. His curriculum emphasizes hands-on learning, with practical examples that involve building, deploying, and managing distributed systems. Students engage in projects that simulate real-world scenarios, such as developing fault-tolerant applications, implementing mobile distributed applications, and optimizing performance. Students gain practical experience with industry-standard tools and frameworks and various cloud platforms, by working through coding challenges, debugging distributed applications, and analyzing performance metrics to understand the intricacies of distributed systems firsthand.
Each semester Dr. Lomotey collaborates with a small group of students on research, often resulting in students attending and even presenting at national conferences, and having their work published in leading journals. This research allows students to translate academic knowledge into solving real world problems. This further prepares or positions the students better for the competitive technology job market.
Dr. Lomotey’s classes prepare students for careers including:
- Software developer/engineer
- Data engineer
- Data scientist
- DevOps engineer
- Web developer
- Mobile app developer
- Database administrator
- Cybersecurity analyst
Research Interests
- Mobile cloud computing
- Enterprise applications
- Cyber physical devices or Internet of Things (IoT)
- Web services
- Databases (RDBMs and NoSQL)
- Topics including cocoa farmers, lactation, hemophilia
Publications
Voices of People With Disabilities: Integrating Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis to Study Disability Discourse on Social Media, IEEE Access - May 15, 2025
Collaborators: Sandra Kumi, Co-Author; Christian Nyaku, Co-Author; Ralph Deters, Co-Author
Uncovering Concerns of Citizens Through Machine Learning and Social Network Sentiment Analysis, IEEE Access - July 17, 2024
Collaborators: Sandra Kumi, Co-Author; Charles Snow, Co-Author; Ralph Deters, Co-Author
Automatic Detection and Diagnosis of Cocoa Diseases Using Mobile Tech and Deep Learning, International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Management and Informatics - 2023
Collaborators: Alex Mammay (undergraduate student), Co-Author; Rita Orji, Co-Author
Using Machine Learning to Establish the Concerns of Persons with HIV/AIDS During the COVID-19 Pandemic from their Tweets, IEEE Access - April 26, 2023
Collaborators: Sandra Kumi, Co-Author; Maxwell Hilton, Co-Author; Rita Orji, Co-Author; Ralph Deters, Co-Author
Data Trusts as a Service: Providing a platform for multi‐party data sharing, International Journal of Information Management Data Insights - May 6, 2022
Collaborators: Sandra Kumi, Co-Author; Ralph Deters, Co-Author
Using Blockchain for Trustworthy Mobile Contact Tracing, International Journal of Spatio-Temporal Data Science - October 25, 2021
Collaborators: Emmanuel Kaku, Co-Author; Ralph Deters, Co-Author
Enforcing IoT Data Verification and Privacy Using Origin Identification Traceability, International Journal of Spatio-Temporal Data Science - October 25, 2021
Collaborators: Jacob Rickabaugh (undergraduate student), Co-Author; Natalia Slivkanich (undergraduate student), Co-Author
“I Tried to Breastfeed but…”: Exploring Factors Influencing Breastfeeding Behaviours Based on Tweets using Machine Learning and Thematic Analysis , IEEE Access - April 14, 2021
Collaborators: Oladapo Oyebode, Co-Author; Rita Orji, Co-Author
Machine-to-infrastructure middleware platform for data management in IoT, International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management - May 1, 2019
Collaborators: Sumanth Sriramoju (undergraduate student), Co-Author; Rita Orji, Co-Author
Socially-driven persuasive health intervention design: Competition, social comparison, and cooperation , Health Informatics Journal - May 25, 2018
Collaborators: Rita Orji, Co-Author; Kiemute Oyibo, Co-Author; Fidelia Orji
Enhancing Privacy in Wearable IoT through a Provenance Architecture, Multimodal Technologies and Interaction - April 23, 2018
Collaborators: Kenneth Sofranko (undergraduate student), Co-Author; Rita Orji, Co-Author
Mobile technology for smart agriculture: deployment case for cocoa production, International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Management and Informatics - March 30, 2018
Collaborators: Alex Mammay (undergraduate student), Co-Author; Rita Orji, Co-Author
Wearable IoT data stream traceability in a distributed health information system, Pervasive and Mobile Computing - September 1, 2017
Collaborators: Joseph Pry (undergraduate student), Co-Author; Sumanth Sriramoju (undergraduate student), Co-Author
Facilitating agronomic mobile data management in a crop field, International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Management and Informatics - June 1, 2017
Collaborators: Harsha Guttikonda (undergraduate student), Co-Author; Ralph Deters, Co-Author
Traceability and visual analytics for the Internet-of-Things (IoT) architecture, World Wide Web - May 1, 2017
Collaborators: Joseph Pry (undergraduate student), Co-Author; Chenshean Chai (undergraduate student), Co-Author
Middleware platform for the synchronisation of mobile medical data, International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management - April 12, 2017
Collaborators: Sumanth Sriramoju (undergraduate student), Co-Author; Ralph Deters, Co-Author
Perceived confidence for injury self‑management increases for young men with mild haemophilia with the use of the mobile app HIRT?, Journal of Haemophilia Practice - January 24, 2017
Collaborators: JoAnn Nilson, Co-Author; Kathy Mulder, Co-Author; Candice Schachter, Co-Author; Kristy Wittmeier, Co-Author; Catherine Arnold, Co-Author; Sarah Oosman
Middleware for mobile medical data management with minimal latency, Information Systems Frontiers - December 1, 2016
Collaborator: Ralph Deters, Co-Author
Mobile Medical Data Synchronization on Cloud-Powered Middleware Platform, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing - October 1, 2016
Collaborators: JoAnn Nilson, Co-Author; Kristy Wittmeier, Co-Author; Kathy Mulder, Co-Author; Candice Schachter, Co-Author; Ralph Deters, Co-Author
Are you HIRT? (Hemophilia Injury Recognition Tool): perceptions of the mobile app on injury self-management from young men with mild hemophilia in Canada, Haemophilia - October 1, 2016
Collaborators: JoAnn Nilson, Co-Author; Kathy Mulder, Co-Author; Candice Schachter, Co-Author; Kristy Wittmeier, Co-Author; Cathy Arnold, Co-Author; Sarah Oosman
Education
Ph D, Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan
MS, Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan
BS, Computer Science, University of Cape Coast