Bio

Full name: Christian Oluwatobi Emiyah

Youngest of a family of 5. Born and raised in Ibadan, Nigeria.

Middle School and High School (Victory Christian College, Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria)

Third place Cowbell Mathematics Competition for middle schoolers 2007

College Education (Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, USA)

Software Engineering Journey

From 2013, he’s worked as a research intern programming microcontrollers in smart LED light fixtures for a novel way for tracking occupants and assets using visible light communication (he currently holds a joint patent on this idea). In 2017, he worked as a software engineering intern writing Python programs to diagnose cancer from skin lesion images. His program achieved more than 75% accuracy (a 12% improvement over the previous year performance). In 2018, he worked with the Baltimore City Public Schools’ Human Capital Office as a Data Analyst providing business intelligence and insight on staff performance and retention by analyzing 15 years’ worth of data stored in Oracle. The results helped the district make data informed decisions on what recruitment channels needed to be supported and where more mentorship and incentives should be introduced to improve teacher retention and performance.

Currently, he’s getting his doctorate in Electrical Engineering with further focus on Machine Learning especially model development, model parameter estimation and optimization.