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Godfrey Okeke

Godfrey Okeke

Founder & CEO building Expedia for ocean shipping

GodfreyOkeke
Edmonton, Alberta
Joined November 2025
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Summary

Founder & operator focused on simplifying international vehicle and heavy-goods shipping: Godfrey founded Awele to make cross-border shipping as easy and transparent as booking travel, building an AI-driven marketplace that returns instant, door-to-door quotes and connects buyers with vetted freight forwarders and customs brokers. awele+2
Academic researcher in wireless communications with a strong signal-processing background: completed a Ph.D. at the University of Alberta (2015) studying MIMO cellular networks and cooperative relaying, and co-authored multiple IEEE conference/journal publications on beamforming, relay selection, and LTE-Advanced frameworks. scholaris+2
Bridges research and product: Godfrey has transitioned from PhD-level research on MIMO and relays into building production software (Awele) that applies AI/data approaches to logistics and marketplace problems — an example of taking deep technical expertise into a domain problem (global freight/shipping) to productize solutions. awele+1
Active in the startup community and maker/founder networks: publicly visible in YC Startup School / Startup community events and Edmonton Startup Week, and regularly posts about product, marketplaces and shipping on social platforms. clay+2

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Coverage and throughput enhancement in MIMO cellular networks via cooperative relaying

January 1, 2015

PhD dissertation on improving coverage and throughput in MIMO cellular networks through cooperative relaying techniques; includes theoretical analysis and simulation results relevant to relay-assisted LTE-Advanced systems.

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A Novel Low-Complexity Joint User-Relay Selection and Association for Multi-User Multi-Relay MIMO Uplink

January 1, 2015

IEEE Wireless Communications Letters paper proposing a low-complexity joint user-relay selection and association scheme for multi-user multi-relay MIMO uplinks, aimed at reducing feedback and implementation complexity for LTE-Advanced-style relay networks.

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Distributed beamforming in multi-cell cooperative MIMO Cellular Networks with non-regenerative relays: An LTE-Advanced framework

January 1, 2013

Conference paper (GLOBECOM 2013) on distributed beamforming and relay beamforming design for multi-cell cooperative MIMO networks, co-authored with faculty and researchers at University of Alberta.

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