Sunday Eric Adewumi is Professor of Computer Science at Federal University Lokoja. He earned a B. Sc. Degree in Computer Science from the University of Ibadan in 1983. His interest in in information security and data compression required that he takes higher degrees in Mathematics (Numerical Analysis) to devise new algorithms for compression data and for securing data under transmission. He earned an M.Sc Mathematics from the University of Jos in 2000 and a PhD from the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi in 2005.

In 2005, he was awarded the distinguished Scholar for outstanding Academic presentation by European Journal of Scientific Research for his work entitled A New Text Compression Algorithm.

He was at some point a visiting lecturer to the National University of Rwanda where he taught the master’s degree students of Computer Science of that University.He is also a visiting Professor to many universities in his home country, Nigeria.

He has assessed 29 candidates at professorial level in Computer Science and has examined several B. Sc, M. Sc and PhD candidates both within and outside the country.

His research and administrative experience spanned well over three decades. He has been HOD and Director ICT at the University of Jos and HOD, Dean of Faculty and Director of ICT at the Federal University Lokoja.

He presently on sabbatical at the Keele University, Staffordshire, United Kingdom where he is undertaking a research on Phishing Mails, due to be completed in December 2023. 

He has worked for other organizations within and outside the country including the United Nations as a Data Processing/Systems Analysis Specialist in Somalia. He was at one time the Chairman of AVOIR (African Virtual Open Initiative and Resources), a continental initiative based in South Africa committed to the development of Free and Open Source (FOSS) in the continent of Africa.

He is widely traveled and has presented technical papers in many National and International conferences/workshops and won best paper presenter in some of these conferences. He was the recipient of the year 2000 Best Computer Programmer in the Nigeria University Award, organized by National Universities Commission (NUC). He earned the best paper presenter at the 4^th International Conference On Computer Design and Engineering in Dubai in 2014 on his work entitled Character Analysis Scheme for compression Text Files.

He is a Fellow and Life Member of Nigeria Computer Society (FNCS), member of the Computer Professional Registration Council of Nigeria (MCPN) and a Chartered Information Technology Professional.