Mentor: Prof. Christine E. Heitsch.

Dissertation title: Algebraic statistics: problems in phylogenetics, and Wasserstein distance optimization.

Summer 2025: Completed my PhD Program.

Advisor: Prof. Elizabeth Gross.

Admitted into a Mathematics PhD program (Starting Fall 2021) at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa.

Spring 2024: I advanced to PhD candidacy.

Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Gross.

Graduated with an MA degree in Mathematics from the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa.

Research project on phylogenetics was supervised by Dr. Elizabeth Gross and was a joint work with Dr. Christopher Muir.

Topic of the project was "Algebraic Tools for the analysis of trait evolution". The Project is yet to be published (as of February 2022).

Worked as a Teaching Assistant throughout the duration of the program.

Served during the 2017 NYSC Batch A Stream I service year.

Posted to Kogi State of Nigeria where I served as a Mathematics Teacher at the Bridgehead International Academy, Felele Lokoja.

Served as the financial secretary of the Charity and Gender NYSC Community Development Group.

Graduated from the Department of Mathematics, Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO), Nigeria.

Obtained a first-class CGPA and was the best graduating student in the Faculty of Physical Sciences, FUTO.

Undergraduate project was supervised by Dr. Martin C. Obi. The project resulted in the publication titled, "On the computation of character tables for some symmetric groups".

Class advisor was Dr. Andrew Omame who has been a great support to date.