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| Hon. Tolulope Akande-Sadipe. |
Two Nigerians resident in the United States of America and recently elected in the Academy of Engineering in the US, Oyekunle Olukotun and Oluwole Soboyejo have been congratulated by the member representing Oluyole Federal Constituency, Hon. Tolulope Akande-Sadipe who according to her, made Nigeria proud.
Speaking through her Special
Assistant on Media, Olamilekan Olusada, the House of Representatives member
expressed delight on the elections, noting that this is another good sign that
Nigerians in Diaspora are recognized in their various fields.
Akande-Sadipe, who chairs the
House Committee on Diaspora praised the Nigerian-Americans for their
forthrightness in their chosen career, Engineering, adding that the House
Committee on Diaspora is proud of their feats.
According to reports, Olukotun and
Soboyejo were among the 104 members and 24 international members elected to the
academy in March, according to a statement by NAE. The new members bring the
academy’s total US membership to 2,353 and the number of international members
to 299.
The academy membership honors
those who have made outstanding contributions to “engineering research,
practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions
to the engineering literature” and to “the pioneering of new and developing
fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of
engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering
education.”
Individuals in the newly elected
class will be formally inducted during the NAE’s annual meeting on October 3,
2021.
Olukotun is the Cadence Design
Systems Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. He has been on the
faculty since 1991.
Olukotun is well known as a
pioneer in multicore processor design and the leader of the Stanford Hydra chip
multiprocessor research project. Olukotun currently directs the Stanford
Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory, which seeks to proliferate the use of
heterogeneous parallelism in all application areas using Domain-Specific
Languages.
He received his Ph.D. in Computer
Engineering from The University of Michigan.
Soboyejo is Senior Vice-President and Provost, Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
Northborough.
Prior to joining WPI, Soboyejo
was a Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University
for approximately 17 years. He is a materials scientist whose research focuses
on biomaterials and the use of nanoparticles for the detection and treatment of
disease, the mechanical properties of materials, and the use of materials
science to promote global development.
He has also served as President
and Provost of the African University of Science and Technology in Abuja,
Nigeria, a Pan-African university founded by the Nelson Mandela Institutions,
among others.
He received his Ph.D. in
Materials Science and Metallurgy from Churchill College, Cambridge University.
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