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Dr. Sujith Jayaprakash

Lead Consultant

Dr. Sujith is a tech-savvy education director with nearly 15 years of experience in higher education brand building and global collaborations. He is currently the Rector/President of BlueCrest University College and the Director of OpenLabs Ghana, a leading IT training school and consultancy in Ghana as well as Lead Consultant of Global Relief Consult (GRC).

Sujith Jayaprakash is a highly motivated company development executive with a background in higher education, IT training, and administration. He has over a decade of expertise in the Indian, African, and Latin American education sectors, including considerable experience in Senior Management roles and directing institutional academic delivery improvement. He received his Doctor of Philosophy
in Computer Science with a focus on Education Data Mining from Bharathiar University. He also has a Master of Science in Computer Science and a Master of
Philosophy in Computer Science under his belt. Sujith is a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer and a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Dr. Sujith is also a Stanford University accredited Design Thinking specialist.

Data Science, Web Mining, Education Data Mining, and Social Media Marketing are
among his specialties.

Dr. Sujith Jayaprakash began his career as a software engineer before pursuing his passion for teaching in academia. He began his work as a lecturer, but he never lost sight of his desire to continue learning and developing his technology knowledge. He was one of the BlueCrest University College’s founding members. He began his career as the HOD-ICT before being promoted to Registrar and President of the University College.

He thrives on energy and ingenuity, and he is a firm believer in continuing to support investments in people, technology, and innovation. Dr. Sujith has spent a decade serving one of the world’s most promising continents, Africa, and is always
a proponent of technology for the growth of the country and beyond. He has served as a consultant for a number of funding and donor agency projects, including GIZ’s Capacity Building Training for Youth Employment, the Africa Development Bank’s Educating Enterprise Support Organizations on the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and I&P Education’s Post COVID-19 Resilience for Businesses in Ghana. In the Ghana STEM Education Project, he is now mentoring a few entrepreneurs.

Dr. Sujith has published several research papers in reputed journals and he has written chapters in the books Machine Learning for Sustainable Development and Real-Time Applications of Machine Learning in Cyber Physical Systems titled “Opportunities and Challenges in Transforming Higher Education Through Machine Learning,” “A Survey of Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems Based on Machine Learning,” and “Opportunities and Challenges in Transforming Higher Education Through Machine Learning.”