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Post by Her Highness on Dec 3, 2015 14:39:30 GMT
Dr. Omobola Johnson  She is a Nigerian technocrat and the pioneer Minister of Communication Technology, a position she acquired following her appointment as part of the transformation Agenda of the Goodluck Jonathan government. She came on board with a wealth of experience and an intimidating resume that has impacted positively on the sector in the last twenty four months. Prior to this, she served as the Country manager for Accenture Nigeria. Born in 1963, she has earned several public commendations since taking up her position and serves as role model to women across Nigeria. This is following the numerous achievements of her ministry notably among which is the launch of the NigComSat-IR Satellite. This has helped to complement the country’s efforts at fibre connectivity and the provision of greater bandwidth.
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 4, 2015 15:01:37 GMT
John O. Dabiri Professor of Aeronautics and Bioengineering; Dean of Undergraduate Students B.S., Princeton University, 2001; M.S., Caltech, 2003; Ph.D., 2005. Assistant Professor, Caltech, 2005-09; Associate Professor, 2009-10; Professor, 2010-; Dean of Undergraduate Students, 2014-. John Dabiri is a Professor of Aeronautics and Bioengineering at Caltech and a 2010 MacArthur Fellow. He graduated from Princeton University with a B.S.E. degree summa cum laude in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2001. He came to Caltech as a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow, Gordon and Betty Moore Fellow, and Y.C. Fung Fellow in Bioengineering, earning an M.S. degree in Aeronautics in 2003, followed by a Ph.D. in Bioengineering with a minor in Aeronautics in 2005. He subsequently joined the Caltech faculty. His honors include an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for his research in bio-inspired propulsion. Popular Science magazine named him one of its "Brilliant 10" scientists in 2008. For his research in bio-inspired wind energy, Bloomberg Businessweek magazine listed him among its Technology Innovators in 2012, and the MIT Technology Review magazine named him one of its 35 innovators under 35 in 2013. He is currently the Chair of the Faculty at Caltech.
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 4, 2015 15:11:32 GMT
Yemi Adesokan But today, Adesokan who has been listed by Technology Review, an independent media company owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (MIT) USA. as one of the TR35 Award of the 2011 World top innovators. Past recipients have included Sergey Brin (Google), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), and Konstantin Novoselev (later a Nobel Laureate in Physics).
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Post by Honorebu on Dec 4, 2015 15:18:07 GMT
Shymmex shouldn't this be in the Success stories/biographies section?
What do you think?
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 4, 2015 16:53:45 GMT
Babatunde A. Ogunnaike
 University of Delaware's College of Engineering Dean Babatunde A. Ogunnaike was named dean of engineering in 2013. He joined UD in 2002 as a professor with dual appointments in the Department of Chemical Engineering (now the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) and the Delaware Biotechnology Institute's Center for Systems Biology, following a 13-year research career with DuPont. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Lagos in Nigeria in 1976 and a master's degree in statistics and a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1981. In 2012, Ogunnaike was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and the Nigerian Academy of Engineering.
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 4, 2015 19:34:18 GMT
Katherine Adebola Okikiolu
 Okikiolu was born in 1965 in England. Her father was George Olatokunbo Okikiolu, a renowned Nigerian mathematician and the most published black mathematician on record. Her British mother was a high school mathematics teacher. Okikiolu received a B.A. in mathematics from Cambridge University in 1987. In 1991 she earned her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles for her thesis The Analogue of the Strong Szego Limit Theorem on the Toris and the 3-Sphere. Okikiolu comes from a mathematical family, her father is a mathematician and inventor and her mother is a high school mathematics teacher. Her parents met when her father left Nigeria to study mathematics at the same college in England where her mother was studying physics. Her father, the Nigerian George Okikiolu, has written more mathematics papers than any other Black mathematician. She is married to mathematican Hans Lindblad. Okikiolu earned her B.A. in Mathematics from Cambridge University in England before coming to the United States in 1987 to attend graduate school mathematics at UCLA (the University of California, Los Angeles). There, she worked with two mentors, Sun-Yung (Alice) Chang and John Garnett, and was able to solve a problem concerning asymptotics of determinants of Toeplitz operators on the sphere and a conjecture of Peter Jones, characterizing subsets of rectifiable curves in Euclidean n-space. She earned her Ph.D. at UCLA in 1991, and she has been exhibiting first rate mathematical abilties. After her doctorate, Kate went, in 1993, to Princeton University where she was an Instructor and an Assistant Professor until 1995. From 1995 until 1997 she was a visiting Assistant Professor at MIT. She became a resident status in the U.S. at this time. Since 1997, she has been on the faculty in the Mathematics Department of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), first as an Assistant Professor. Also in 1996, Dr. Okikiolu spoke as part of the twenty-fifth anniversary celebration for Association of Women in Mathematics (AWM). In 2002, she gave the Claytor-Woodard lecture at the NAM meeitng st the Joint Mathematics Meetings.
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 4, 2015 19:41:30 GMT
Kunle Olukotun
 Kunle Olukotun is the Cadence Design Systems Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University and he has been on the faculty since 1991. Olukotun is well known for leading the Stanford Hydra research project which developed one of the first chip multiprocessors with support for thread-level speculation (TLS). Olukotun founded Afara Websystems to develop high-throughput, low power server systems with chip multiprocessor technology. Afara was acquired by Sun Microsystems; the Afara microprocessor technology, called Niagara, is at the center of Sun's throughput computing initiative. Niagara based systems have become one of Sun's fastest ramping products ever. Olukotun is actively involved in research in computer architecture, parallel programming environments and scalable parallel systems. Olukotun currently co-leads the Transactional Coherence and Consistency project whose goal is to make parallel programming accessible to average programmers. Olukotun also directs the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab (PPL) which seeks to proliferate the use of parallelism in all application areas. Olukotun is an ACM Fellow (2006) for contributions to multiprocessors on a chip and multi threaded processor design. He has authored many papers on CMP design and parallel software and recently completed a book on CMP architecture. Olukotun received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The University of Michigan.
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 5, 2015 0:09:26 GMT
Olufunmilayo Olopade
 Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics Associate Dean, Global Health Director, Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics Dr. Olopade is an expert in cancer risk assessment and individualized treatment for the most aggressive forms of breast cancer, having developed novel management strategies based on an understanding of the altered genes in individual patients. She stresses comprehensive risk reducing strategies and prevention in high-risk populations, as well as earlier detection through advanced imaging technologies. Dr. Olopade has received numerous honors and awards, including honorary degrees from North Central, Dominican, Bowdoin, and Princeton universities. She is also a recipient of the Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Scientist and Exceptional Mentor Award, an American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professorship, a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellowship and Officer of the Order of the Niger Award. Dr. Olopade is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. She currently serves on the board of directors for the American Board of Internal Medicine, the National Cancer Advisory Board, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Cancer IQ, and the Lyric Opera. Practice Location The University of Chicago Medicine 5841 S. Maryland Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 Year Started Practice 1980 Board Certifications Internal Medicine Hematology Medical Oncology Medical School University of Ibadan Internship and Residency Cook County Hospital, Chicago Fellowship The University of Chicago Medicine Memberships American Association for Cancer Research American Board of Internal Medicine American Association for the Advancement of Science American College of Physicians American Philosophical Society American Society for Clinical Investigation American Society for Preventative Oncology American Society of Breast Disease American Society of Clinical Oncology American Society of Hematology Association of American Professors Human Genome Organization Institute of Medicine National Cancer Advisory Board Nigerian Medical Association Women in Cancer Research Languages Spoken English Yoruba
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 11, 2015 3:43:22 GMT
HonorebuCan you please move this thread to Science & Tech section? thanks
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 11, 2015 3:47:39 GMT
This Is What Women In STEM Look Like Around the World
But female scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians worldwide are breaking barriers and making incredible contributions to their fields despite the odds. Here are just a few women doing so all over the world: Every year, the Elsevier Foundation recognizes notable women from STEM fields in developing countries. The 2015 awards were given to five women — three of whom were Nigerian physicists: Mojisola Usikalu, Rabia Salihu Sa'id and Mojisola Oluwyemisi Adeniyi. 
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 11, 2015 3:49:26 GMT
One of the top inspirational women in tech
Titilope Sonuga, She Will Connect ambassador Titilope is the official spokesperson of Intel’s 2015 She Will Connect Programme in Nigeria, which aims to educate young girls and women on how technology can contribute towards economic and social development across the world. The award-winning poet, writer, actor and civil engineer is using her story to inspire girls to get involved with technology and, as ambassador of She Will Connect, will work with NGOs to train women and girls across Nigeria on how to use technology. www.itnewsafrica.com/2015/08/top-5-inspirational-women-in-tech/
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 11, 2015 4:05:46 GMT
Abike Dabiri-Erewa: After an enviable career as a broadcast journalist in NTA, particularly with human angle stories on Newsline, Abike extended her frontiers to what has been a very successful stint in politics. We still expect to see/hear more from her in the future. 
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 11, 2015 4:17:32 GMT
Amina Oyagbola
A top HR Executive at MTN Nigeria, she’s also the Founder of WISCAR (Women in Successful Careers) a not-for-profit, gender empowerment and mentoring initiative for professional career women. Amina Oyagbola is a global business leader and human resources executive of MTN Nigeria Communications Limited. Amina has extensive experience in the banking and oil industry and is a member of several associations, including the International Bar Association, the Nigerian Bar Association, Oxford and Cambridge Club, and the Nigeria Institute of Management. She has an LL.B (Hons) from Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria, an LL.M from Cambridge University and an MBA from Lancaster University Management School UK, after receiving a Chevening Scholarship from the British Council. She is a Chartered Fellow of CIPD UK and a member of the Society for Human Resource Management USA. She is the Founder of WISCAR (Women in Successful Careers) a not-for-profit, gender empowerment and mentoring initiative for professional career women. She is a Fellow and Country Director of The Africa Leadership Initiative West Africa. LEADERSHIP PROJECT: WISCAR (WOMEN-IN-SUCCESSFUL CAREERS)
Amina's project, WISCAR, is a gender empowerment and mentoring initiative for professional career women. WISCAR (Women-in-Successful Careers) is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2008 that focuses on providing strategic mentoring to young, entry-level professionals, while driving gender-sensitive policy formulation across key industry sectors in Nigeria. WISCAR mentees are carefully selected and undergo a rigorous 12-month mentoring program. Program activities include: one-on-one mentoring sessions, career seminars at the WISCAR School of Excellence, book discussions, meet-a-WISCAR sessions, and one-on-one series with successful career women. The program addresses several work-related issues specific to women and gives strategic guidance. Since 2008, WISCAR has made significant progress and impact in line with Amina's vision by mentoring 43 young professional women who have gone through the intensive and unique 12 months structured WIN with WISCAR Mentoring program. Beyond this group of specially trained and nurtured WISCAR mentees, WISCAR has assisted and helped develop over 3,000 young and aspiring women through its high-quality training programs put together by the WISCAR School of Excellence and focuses on the unique challenges that women face. 
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 11, 2015 5:01:44 GMT
Biola Alabi
The former Managing Director of MNET is amazing on all kinds of levels. Under her tenure, she improved content and direction for the television service. She is currently a 2014 Yale World fellow and Managing Partner at Biola Alabi Media Consulting, a company designed to provide organizations with access to highly qualified professionals in the broadcast, telecommunications, and digital industries.Biola Alabi: The former Managing Director of MNET is amazing on all kinds of levels. Under her tenure, she improved content and direction for the television service. She is currently a 2014 Yale World fellow and Managing Partner at Biola Alabi Media Consulting, a company designed to provide organizations with access to highly qualified professionals in the broadcast, telecommunications, and digital industries. Biola is an African media expert and Managing Partner at Biola Alabi Media Consulting - a company designed to provide organizations with access to highly qualified professionals in the broadcast, telecommunications and digital industries. Until recently, Biola served as Managing Director of Electronic Media Network (MNET), Africa’s first private and leading subscription television service. As Managing Director for MNET, Biola worked tirelessly to produce and air stories created by and about Africa and Africans. Based in Lagos, Nigeria, she spent four years increasing the company’s Africa portfolio, including overseeing the launch of AfricaMagic Hausa and Yoruba in 2010 and AfricaMagic Swahili in 2011: channels that have made considerable contributions to the promotion of indigenous languages and cultures in Africa. She oversaw four editions of the popular reality series Big Brother Africa, and created the Face of Africa Finale in Lagos in 2010 and the first ever Africa Magic Viewer’s Choice Awards in 2013. Biola was listed as one of the 20 Youngest Power Women in Africa by Forbes in 2013. She previously worked with leading brands Sesame Street, Bigwords.com and Daewoo Motors. She is currently consulting on special projects for MNET. 
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 11, 2015 15:20:14 GMT
Funke Opeke
An experienced telecommunications executive who founded Main Street Technologies, Funke is the C.E.O. of MainOne Cable. In a field that is fiercely dominated by men, we’re inspired by the way she keeps charting new territory. Funke was born and raised in Nigeria where she obtained a degree in Electronics & electrical Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife in 1981 before she proceeded to New York for a Master’s degree at Columbia University. Following graduation from Columbia, Funke pursued a career in ICT in the United States and successfully ended that phase of her career as an Executive Director with the Wholesale division of Verizon Communications in New York when she decided to return to Nigeria in 2005. She joined MTN Nigeria as Chief Technical Officer, and also served as adviser to Transcorp and Chief Operating Officer of NITEL for a brief period before launching Main Street Technologies in 2007. The company went on to raise $240 Million to build the pioneer private submarine cable system in West Africa – Main One Cable. The 7,000km cable runs from Portugal down to Accra, Ghana and Lagos, Nigeria and is delivering wholesale broadband capacity across several countries in West Africa today. What would you say are the most challenging and the most satisfying aspects of your work?
The most challenging aspect of my work is building the team to drive such an innovative project and deliver world class service quality out of our operational headquarters in Nigeria. The most satisfying is seeing how much we have achieved in four years with the establishment of the company and early progress towards the transformation of the Internet economy in West Africa. What qualifications or certifications did you attain in order to reach your professional goals?
My Master’s degree was critical, but so were numerous training classes in Business and Finance that I obtained during the course of my employment. If there is one message you would like to convey to young women to encourage them to consider a profession in the ICT sector, what would it be?
ICT offers a tremendous opportunity for young women to work on solutions and technologies that impact people’s lives and change the world. A career in ICT can be diverse, varied and offers good rewards. Young women with the Science and Math aptitude and skills who do not explore a career in ICT are limiting themselves. 
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