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Post by Her Highness on Dec 20, 2015 21:42:13 GMT
Meet Nigeria's Youngest PhD Holders
Dr Olabisi Adeyemi (Age: 26)
This young intellectual earned her PhD in Botany from the University of Lagos. Though she had maintained a track record of academic success right from her secondary school, she acknowledged that having a PhD at her age, and the record of being the best graduating PhD student, did not come easy.
Born in Lagos Island local government of Lagos state, Dr. Adeyemi attended Girls’ Academy, L/Island where she was the best student in WAEC, with seven distinctions. She proceeded to University of Lagos and graduated with a first class degree in botany in 2006. She completed her PhD in record time in 2012.
Dr Opeyemi Shodipe (Age: 25)
This young Nigerian scholar received her bachelor’s degree at 19, from Babcock University. After the mandatory NYSC programme, she entered for a masters at University of Ibadan, graduating best in her department. She capped it with a well-deserved doctorate degree in information science from her alma mater, Babcock University when she was 25.
Dr Olaoluwa Hallowed Oluwadara (Age: 24)
Acclaimed as one of Africa’s youngest PhD holders, Olaoluwa is a spectacular Nigerian intellectual and scholar, because of his achievements. He entered university for a bachelor’s degree at 15. He earned two B.Sc degrees in mathematics and physics, from University of Bangui, Central African Republic (CAR), run simultaneously. He received his master’s degree from the same university.
He crowned it with a PhD in mathematics at the University of Lagos, Akoka, where he was the best graduating PhD student. Dr. Olaoluwa H. Oluwadara won University of Bangui’s all-time best student award from the department of mathematics, best BSc student award in physics, 2007 and best MSc awards in physics and mathematics respectively in 2008. He currently is a research fellow of the Mathematical Analysis and Optimisation Research Group.
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 20, 2015 21:51:14 GMT
Jaiyeola Oduyoye THIS 21 YEAR-OLD NIGERIAN INVENTED A GROUNDBREAKING MOBILE MEDICAL UPS
21 year-old Nigerian Jaiyeola Oduyoye, a graduate of Product Design Engineering from the University of Derby in the United Kingdom created a ground breaking invention in anticipation of her graduation from the University of Derby in June 2016.
To enhance surgical procedures in hospitals which often suffer from poor electricity, Oduyoye invented a mobile medical battery that provides temporary backup electricity to surgical theaters in developing countries. The invention was “developed for countries that have difficulty accessing uninterrupted power supplies so they are able to perform these surgeries in-country, rather than fly people out”, she said to This Day.
In 2013, Dr. Geoffrey, a Tanzanian surgeon was in the middle of a critical procedure on a child in the country, when power cut. Surgeons such as Geoffrey, throughout Africa often use torches in hospitals due to inconsistent power. As such, this new invention will be serving medical communities across developing countries with much needed support.
“Neva”- the name given to the mobile medical backup, is closely related to an industrial UPS (uninterruptible power supply). It has smooth flat surfaces so it’s easy to be cleaned and unlikely to trap dirt. It contains lithium ion battery packs that have 60 charge cycles and produces a power output enough to provide power for critical machines during surgeries. The battery packs are available for switch and replace. The product however, is completely adaptable to many situations.
It is worthy of note that the battery system of the mobile medical backup enables uninterrupted workflow by eliminating the time intensive and onerous tasks previously associated with battery management, ensuring that nurses and other healthcare professionals can now dedicate additional focus to patient care.
venturesafrica.com/this-21-year-old-nigerian-invented-a-groundbreaking-mobile-medical-ups/
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 20, 2015 23:44:02 GMT
Adeyemi Ajao, Nigerian-born Mark Zukerberg of Spain
He is the founder of Tuenti.com, the largest invite-only social network in the world, which sold to Telefonica in 2010 for $100 million in the largest startup transaction ever in Spain. He is regarded as the first African ever to sell his startup for $100 million on August 4, 2010, when Telefonica took controls of 85% of Ajao’s Tuenti, an invitation-only private social network site for students and young people in Spain. Tuenti popularly called “Spanish Facebook” was started by Adeyemi Ajao at 22 and four of his friends. Tuenti has over 14 million users and is the largest Invite-Only network in the world. Tuenti, which in Spanish comes from "tu enti[dad]" meaning your identity, sounds like Twenty in English. It is rated as one of the fastest growing social network sites. Tuenti features many tools common to social-networking sites. It allows users to set up a profile, upload photos, link videos and connect with friends; recently a chat application has been added. Many other utilities, such as the ability to create events, are also offered. Unlike similar social network sites which feature banner advertisements, Tuenti has opted out of these traditional forms of "noisy" and obstructive advertising. Zaryn Dentzel, one of its founders and current CEO, stated that they intend to focus on Spanish users more before possibly expanding to other countries. Adeyemi Ajao was born in southern Spain to a Nigerian father and a Spanish mother. He was in Nigeria for only six years, spent two years in Italy and then moved to Spain when he was nine, growing up in the small beach town called Marbella. Adeyemi earned a Masters in Finance from Emory, a J.D. from ICADE in Madrid, and an MBA from Stanford, and graduated at the top of his class at each university. He was elected one of the “Top 100 Spaniards of the Year” in 2009, and was invited by the U.S. Congress to the Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama as a representative of the Spanish Commission for Accomplishments in Entrepreneurship. Adeyemi’s father was one of the first mechanical engineers in Nigeria, who started a steel company in Nigeria. He saw his father fought hard to put his company together, but unfortunately didn’t make it in Nigeria, and left for Italy. Ajao the Co-Founder/CEO of Identified has also launched other successful innovations such as Cabify, an application for hiring of vehicles with driver via mobile under the slogan "Move with style." Cabify requests high-end vehicles with professional drivers using technology, to bring consumers the luxury. You can ask about one of your cars from any device, be it a mobile phone, a computer or tablet. The user receives a notification with information about the designated driver, model and license plate number. On the screen of your device, you can see how the vehicle looks and can even contact the driver if needed. 
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 21, 2015 0:21:45 GMT
Adetola Motunrayo
Adetola Motunrayo is the Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa. Migrated to Canada in 2001, took up a job offer on arrival in Brookfield as a Family Physician and later became the Senior Medical Office in Charge of Brookfield- Bonnews hospital. He is a certificant of the College of Family Physician in Canada and recently became Fellow of the College of Family Physician of Canada. He has additional qualifications in Dermatology and Independent Medical Examination. He moved to Ottawa in the summer of 2005 to start his solo family practice which has now metamorphed into Zoemed Clinic in Ottawa. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine. He is also an examiner for the College of Family Physician of Canada, Peer reviewer for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario and has been the General Secretary of the Canadian Association of Nigerian Physicians and Dentists. He is also the CME director of that organisation. He retains an active interests in what goes on in Nigeria, hence writes articles in the Nigeriaworld.com. He completed his undergraduate medical education in 1990 at the Ogun State University, now Olabisi Onabanjo University. After his national service in 1992, he began his post graduate education in Internal medicine at the Ogun State University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu and University College hospital, in Ibadan. He later travelled to South Africa where he worked for 6 years and also completed his post graduate training in Family and Emergency Medicine at the University of Witwaterstrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He worked as senior and then Principal Medical Officer at the hospitals in Klerksdorp and Pietersburg. www.zoemedical.ca
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 21, 2015 0:23:00 GMT
Ahmed, Adekunle Garba
Dr Ahmed Garba migrated to Canada in 1997 and has since based in Ottawa, Ontario. He works with the department of Medicine, University of Ottawa and Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, Ottawa, specialising in Psychiatry (sub-specialisation in Psychiatry and Law). Ahmed is a forensic psychiatrist at the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group. He had his first from Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, with his residency training in psychiatry and addictions at the WHO Training Centre, Aro, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria and the University of Liverpool (UK). He also holds a Masters of Law degree from the prestigious Osgoode Hall Law, York University (Canada). AG, as he is popularly called, is an Associate Professor in the Divisions of Forensic and Addiction Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and holds a cross appointment in the Criminology department of the University of Ottawa. He is an adjunct also professor at Queen’s University. His research interests and clinical practice include the assessment and treatment of patients with major mental disorders, psychopathic and personality disorders. He has authored and peer-reviewed articles which were presented both nationally and internationally. He is a member of the Ontario Review Board, Nunavut Review Board, an examiner for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and Medical Council of Canada, a supervisor at Albert Ellis Institute of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and a consultant for the Correctional Service of Canada. He is also the Co-director of the Canadian Centre for Rational and Cognitive Therapies. Although AG lives in Ottawa with his wife and 3 children, he regularly returns to Nigeria to teach and provide mentorship to mental health professionals. He is a recipient of the 2013 Planet Africa Award for Science and Technology. www.med.uottawa.ca
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 21, 2015 0:24:27 GMT
Akinbolaji, Yisa
Akinbolaji Migrated to Canada in 1997 has since been living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A mixed-media artist, Akinbolaji, has developed a unique painting technique for which he was featured on the cover of Art Business News, New York, in 2011. The artist has also been featured in national and international media including CBC, CTV, City Tv, NTA News, Daily Times, Guardian Newspaper, Style Magazine, Winnipeg Free Press and Ottawa Stars. Akinbolaji first began experimenting with the technique in 1993 while in Lagos. He later incorporated this technique into his monotype printmaking while obtaining his master's in fine arts from the University of North Dakota. Akinbolaji's professional career began in 1986 in Lagos, where he studied fine arts at the Yaba College of Technology. Before going to Canada in 1997, he was recognised with his inclusion in Nigerian Artists’ Who's Who and Bibliography (1993), compiled for the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, D.C. Akinbolaji's works have been exhibited in notable galleries in Canada and the United States. He currently serves on the board of the Manitoba Arts Council. He served as President of the Manitoba Society of Artists 2001 - 2003.Yisa is the founder of Creative Foundation Inc. ‘’My work is reflective of my experiences and imagination. Though a painter, I don’t just paint, I create using paint and forms. Before I begin to create my work (abstract or figurative), I imagine how I can use my materials so the viewers can have a magical experience on a two-dimensional surface’, he once said. www.yisagallery.com
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 21, 2015 1:05:13 GMT
Alexander Amosu
designed i-phone 6. The world's most expensive Apple handset costing £1.7million. he holds the world records for most expensive iPhone 2, Blackberry, designer suit and exclusive champagne -He’s Africa's foremost high-end luxury designer -He created the most expensive iPhone 2, which sold for £89,000 -The world's most expensive Blackberry, which sold for £120,000 -Guinness World Record for the most expensive suit (£75,000) -Guinness World Record for the most expensive champagne (£1.2million). -He is Britain's most successful seller of mobile-phone tones -Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the Institute of Directors Black Enterprise Awards 2002 The high-class designer, who already has world records for most expensive iPhone 2, Blackberry, designer suit and exclusive champagne, will use 18 carat gold. A 'blinged-up' version of the iPhone 6 is set to go on the market for a whopping £1.7million after Apple commissioned a luxury designer to create the handset. Alexander Amosu, who has previously created diamond-clad forms of the iPhone 2, will create a luxury adaptation of Apple's new release from solid 18 carat gold. Named the 'Amosu Call of Diamond iPhone 6', it will take two months to make and will be painstakingly handset with over 6,127 brilliant cut diamonds. The Apple logo will be cut from 51.29 carat gold with a cushion flawless cut. If £1.7million is a little out of your price range, you can settle for an Amosu 24ct Gold Iphone 6 at £2,399, available from alexanderamosu.co.uk. Ambitious designer Amosu, who grew up in north London, is widely renowned for bridging the gap between quality and luxury with technology. He previously created the most expensive iPhone 2, which sold for £89,000, as well as the world's most expensive Blackberry, which sold for £120,000. He also holds the Guinness World Record for the most expensive suit (£75,000) and most expensive champagne (£1.2million). Check out Amosu's famous iPhone 2 in the video above. 
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 21, 2015 3:40:00 GMT
KUNLE AWOSIKA – COUNTRY MANAGER, MICROSOFT KENYA
Kunle Awosika is the Country Manager for Microsoft Corporation in Kenya. His key focus is to steer the business to the next phase of expansion through commercial and government engagements while building and growing a high performing team. His career at Microsoft Corporation spans over 14 years, Kunle has held several senior and key sales and business development roles in the company, including running the telecommunications sector across West East Central Africa (WECA). Prior to his appointment in Kenya in 2013, Kunle worked as Director, Enterprise & Public Sector Business for (Anglophone) Africa, contributing to the business expansion within the growth region of West Africa. He sits as part of the ICT Committee for the Ondo City Vision 2015 and recently appointed on the board of AMCHAM ICT committee in Kenya. africatalentbank.com/test/wordpress/kunle-awosika-country-manager-microsoft-kenya/
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 21, 2015 3:49:54 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 Her Highness on Dec 21, 2015 3:51:56 GMT
Printivo Closes On 6-figure Seed Funding From EchoVC Partners
Lagos. Thursday 15 October 2015 – Nigeria-based digital printing startup, Printivo, has closed on seed financing from early-stage technology venture capital firm, EchoVC Partners. The six-figure investment will be used to significantly broaden the company’s product range, increase headcount, accelerate customer acquisition and scale the business. Initially servicing Nigeria’s booming SME sector, Printivo is poised to capitalise on and grow Nigeria’s $200M print market, which has until now, had no credible online presence. From $6 in 2011, Africa’s print industry is currently estimated to grow to $9B annually by 2016, as businesses invest in design and print to keep up with African consumers’ increasing visual literacy, brand adoption, and uncompromising demand for quality. A self-styled ‘Vistaprint for Africa’, the year-old Printivo provides the only fully automated online print service for over 3,000 customers, providing local and international businesses with corporate stock collateral, such as business cards, letterheads and notepads, and has seen y-o-y growth of 200% since its launch in 2014. Prior to Printivo, there has been little to no innovation in the print industry in Africa’s largest economy. Market-wide challenges for Africa’s print industry have historically included the high cost of printing, lack of graphic designers, poor customer service and time-intensive ordering practices, making top quality printing all but unaffordable for the super-majority of small businesses. With founders that have spent their entire lives in the print industry, Printivo is the first to build a full service digital platform, in conjunction with a visual creative & design community, to service the small business sector, offering free online templates, design support, a custom upload service, e-commerce, nationwide delivery and high quality customer service turnaround. Printivo is also rapidly growing its consumer base, with a focus in particular on Nigeria’s multi-million dollar wedding industry. Olu’yomi Ojo, Printivo Co-Founder and CEO says, “Securing institutional seed financing means we can accelerate the growth of our online print services & community platform and achieve the ambitious targets we have set for ourselves, as we transform an industry that has, until now, lacked digital infrastructure, investment and innovation. We can now transition print from bricks & mortar ‘mom-and-pop’ stores that struggle to scale and meet quality requirements, to online ordering and direct delivery, while enabling job creation and distribution. We are in the process of removing the friction for companies that want access to great design, transparent pricing, high quality products and fast turnaround on orders. Simple, yes, but something local printers have historically been unable to provide.” “In EchoVC, we have found an investor and partner who has a complete understanding in growing and scaling eCommerce businesses and who sees the enormous growth opportunity Africa’s print industry presents.” With revenues rapidly growing at 50% quarter-over-quarter, Printivo has secured contracts with leading global brands operating in Nigeria, including Google, Uber, Samsung, DHL and Etisalat. After one year of operation, they have serviced over 3,000 customers and currently on track to fulfilling 1,000 orders per month. The company is now clearly positioned to be the primary print outsourcing partner to the 17 million active Nigerian SMEs in Africa’s largest economy, with a goal to be the Pan-African e-print platform of choice. Wale Ayeni, Investment Director at EchoVC Pan-Africa Fund adds: “The lightning speed at which Printivo has changed Nigerian SMEs’ print purchasing habits and built a customer base that runs into the thousands is impressive, and was a key driver in our decision to invest. EchoVC sees print in Africa as one of the continent’s ‘iceberg micro-economies’, a below-radar but very large and viable industry with enormous scope for growth. The team’s homegrown expertise and innate understanding of the market, their commitment to great design and innovation in print, their ability to grow long lasting customer relationships and their focus on customer service equates to them being best placed to lead the digital printing revolution on the continent. The founders’ focus on building a community of co-dependent participants in the print economy has also kick-started significant job creation possibilities.” techcabal.com/2015/10/15/digital-printing-startup-printivo-closes-on-seed-funding-from-echovc-partners/
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 21, 2015 3:53:54 GMT
Kunle Adeyemi
Kunle Adeyemi (founder of NLE Architects) Designs a Solar-Powered Floating School for the Flood-Prone Coastline of Nigeria For the community of Makoko of Lagos, Nigeria life on the water is nothing new. Prone to flooding, residents have dealt with encroaching waters for generations by building houses on stilts and using canoes as their main source of transport. Now, with the threat of sea level rise from climate change, and developers who want to tear the community down, Makoko is in a state of uncertainty. Nigerian-born architect Kunle Adeyemi has a vision for the city of 250,000 people that involves constructing a group of floating structures that have better access to sanitation, fresh water, and waste disposal. His first endeavor would be to build a three-story school held afloat by plastic drums. After a trip to Makoko in 2009, Adeyemi was inspired to improve upon the main primary school that served the waterside settlement. His design, which will accommodate 100 students, will use 256 plastic drums to keep it resting on top of the water, and the frame will be constructed with locally-sourced wood. Electricity would be provided by solar panels on the roof, and rainwater harvesting would help operate toilets. The school is nearly finished, and the entire cost should total around $6,250. Projects like Adeyemi’s could be the beginning of a trend followed throughout coastal Africa. “The building can be adapted for other uses, such as homes or hospitals. Ultimately, it’s a vision that can be used to sustainably develop [African] coastal communities.” said Adeyemi. While the government is reluctant to permanently establish the dozens of settlements in the city’s waters, tentative backing has been given by local officials. In recent years, nearby cities in Lagos have been reclaiming the water using land pumped from the ocean floor. Adeyemi’s strategy would work with the propensity for storms and rising tides to flood the area instead of fighting against them, setting a possible example for future developments in the country.    
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 21, 2015 5:03:45 GMT
Seyi Oyesola
Co-inventor of “Hospital-in-a-Box”, a solar-powered, life-saving operating room which can be transported to remote areas of Africa and set up quickly  Although he spent part of his youth in America (including going to high school in Cleveland, OH), Seyi Oyesola’s heart was always in his native country of Nigeria as he dreamed of returning there to become a physician and help his people. After completing high school here, he returned with his family to his homeland where he earned his medical degree and began his internship training. But he soon discovered that on his meager salary as an intern, he could barely afford to maintain his mother’s ageing car. So he left Nigeria for Britain to complete his training, asking himself: “Is this going to be a permanent phenomenon? Will we keep paying doctors in Africa so poorly that they migrate to the U.S. or the United Kingdom?” As he later realized when he began practice as an anesthesiologist and critical care physician, such situations are but microcosms of more serious medical and healthcare problems plaguing Africa. But with determinism and optimism, Seyi is doing his part to make a difference. Why He’s Important: After being fed up with the deplorable state of emergency medicine that he saw in many remote parts of Africa, Seyi set about to find a way to bring quickly transportable and assembled surgical care to these areas in emergency cases. The answer came when he collaborated with English engineer Alexander Bushell. The pair developed “The CompactOR,” or more popularly known as “Hospital-in-a-Box”– a solar-powered portable operating theatre replete with all the equipment found in a normal operating theatre, including a defibrillator, EKG monitoring, suction, an anesthetic machine, and surgical lighting. The award-winning invention was launched in 2007 and is in use in rural areas of Africa. Common ailments and injuries (such as trauma, burns and heart attacks) are survivable in developed countries, but kill thousands of Africans each year because basic medical care is often not available. Hospital-in-a-box, powered by solar panels (and if necessary supported by pedal power or from a car battery), can be dropped into inaccessible zones by helicopter and set up quickly. Current Activities: Dr. Oyesola is Chief Medical Director of the newly-opened Delta State University Teaching Hospital in Nigeria. He is also a director of Practice Ventures (Britain), a company that specializes in the supply and maintenance of high-tech medical equipment to African hospitals. In addition, he has served as senior lecturer at the Imperial College School of Medicine in London. Education: He completed his Bachelor’s of Science degree and medical degree from the University of Lagos, Nigeria with specialist training in Anesthesia and Critical Care in Britain and the U.S. In His Own Words: “In serving a cause greater than self, a team is able to produce results in a way that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts,” says Seyi regarding the team approach he likes to take in solving problems. 
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 21, 2015 5:10:05 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 Her Highness on Dec 29, 2015 20:17:34 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 Her Highness on Dec 29, 2015 20:26:19 GMT
OLU ATANDA
Patents
Self-lubricating layer for data storage devices
Patent number: 6677105
Abstract: A silicon nitride self-lubricating layer forms the upper surface of a data storage device, such as a rotating disk or a non-rotating memory device, e.g., a credit card-type memory device using a memory strip. The silicon nitride self-lubricating layer can replace the carbon protective overcoat and liquid lubricant used in conventional data storage devices. The silicon nitride self-lubrication layer provides the desired lubrication and protection between the slider and the data storage device. The silicon nitride layer also will not evaporate under high temperatures found in an optical data storage system. In addition, a data storage device may include a plastic polymer layer over which an iron oxide material is deposited. The use of a plastic polymer layer and iron oxide recording layer is particularly advantageous because a low temperature deposition process can be used with the iron oxide material.
Type: Grant
Filed: May 4, 2001
Issued: January 13, 2004
Assignee: Toda Kogyo Corporation
Inventors: Po Wen Wang, Evan F. Cromwell, Olu Atanda
Self-lubricating layer for a data storage disk
Patent number: 6430114
Abstract: A silicon nitride self-lubricating layer forms the upper surface of a data storage disk. The silicon nitride self-lubricating layer can replace the carbon protective overcoat and liquid lubricant used in conventional data storage devices in which an aerodynamic slider is supported by an air bearing by providing both physical protection for the underlying recording layer and lubrication between the slider and the disk.
Type: Grant
Filed: May 12, 2000
Issued: August 6, 2002
Assignee: Toda Citron Technologies, Inc.
Inventors: Po-Wen Wang, Evan F. Cromwell, Olu Atanda
Self-lubricating layer for data storage devices
Application number: 20010055702
Abstract: A silicon nitride self-lubricating layer forms the upper surface of a data storage device, such as a rotating disk or a non-rotating memory device, e.g., a credit card-type memory device using a memory strip. The silicon nitride self-lubricating layer can replace the carbon protective overcoat and liquid lubricant used in conventional data storage devices. The silicon nitride self-lubrication layer provides the desired lubrication and protection between the slider and the data storage device. The silicon nitride layer also will not evaporate under high temperatures found in an optical data storage system. In addition, a data storage device may include a plastic polymer layer over which an iron oxide material is deposited. The use of a plastic polymer layer and iron oxide recording layer is particularly advantageous because a low temperature deposition process can be used with the iron oxide material.
Type: Application
Filed: May 4, 2001
Issued: December 27, 2001
Inventors: Po Wen Wang, Evan F. Cromwell, Olu Atanda
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