Bamidele Adebisi is a Professor in Intelligent Infrastructure Systems and Head of the Smart Infrastructure and Industry Research (SIIR) Group at the Department of Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University.
He received MSc. 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. He was a Research Associate/Senior Research Associate in the School of Computing and Communication, Lancaster University between 2005 and 2012, where he was involved in multiple research projects, including acting as a Work Package Leader of a successfully completed EU FP7 smart grid Project.
His research is in embedding sensing, communication, control, and data analytic technologies in critical infrastructure, i.e. energy systems, transport, buildings, water etc. He publishes widely 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 indoor solutions for energy and occupancy management.
He has been part of multi-partner, multi-country, multi-million-pound projects as an Investigator funded by the government, international agencies, and corporate bodies, involving projects worth >£45M. Between 2015 and 2022, he was one of the Senior Investigators of the team that led the establishment of one of the largest knowledge driven low carbon districts in Europe, incorporating sustainable urban mobility, integrated infrastructures, and processes, including energy, ICT and transport through Triangulum, a €29M EU H2020 Smart Cities funded project. He was also a Co-Investigator of CityVerve, a £10M smart Cities Project which investigated big data energy analytics platform for real-time monitoring and prediction of energy, transport, health/wellbeing across the City of Manchester, UK. Other projects include the EPSRC/TSB micro-grid for energy management (£700K), EPSRC UK -Korea Peer to Peer Energy Trading & Sharing (£1M), BEIS funded UK-Canada -Energy IQ (£2.7M), etc. He was the Academic Lead on Nigeria Intelligent Clean Energy Marketplace (NIceEnergi, £600K), a UK-Nigeria Partnership to develop a sustainable energy management system for a community in Nigeria, funded by the UK government. In 2023, he started a four-year EU H2020 grant in partnership with 9 EU and 5 African collaborators to develop cutting-edge wireless communication and AI for rural applications.
He has a strong record of accomplishment in attracting industrial-related grants through Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP). One such project received the UK Best of the Best KTP Project of the Year Awards in September 2020.
In 2021, Bamidele received the University Staff Award for the industrial/Business collaborator of the year. He was honoured with The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2025 King’s New Year Honours list for his services to Knowledge Transfer.
He is a Director/ Board Member of the African Hydrogen Partnership Trade Association (AHP), Mauritius, and a member of the leadership team of the Manchester Fuel Cell Innovation Centre, UK. He was the Vice Chair of IEEE TC-PLC and Vice-Chair of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Manchester Branch. He has been General Chair / Co-Chair of IEEE conferences, e.g. 27th IEEE ISPLC (2023), 21st IEEE ISPLC (2018), UK, 6th IEEE Int’l Conference on Smart Grid Communications, USA, etc.
He is Panel Member of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Peer Review College, and an EU Expert Reviewer/ rapporteur.
Bamidele is a Fellow of IET, a Senior member of IEEE, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Chartered Engineer.