Yetunde Folajimi
Dr. Yetunde Folajimi is an Associate Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, USA. With Ph.D. in computer science and research interests in artificial intelligence, educational games, recommender systems, machine learning, and natural language processing, she has about 20 years of experience teaching in higher institutions and has served as an advisor to over 100 undergraduate and graduate research work. She has worked with colleagues and students from diverse backgrounds in interdisciplinary fields all over the world, including the University of Ibadan and Nnamdi Azikiwe university in Nigeria, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Northeastern University USA, the University of Pittsburgh USA, the University of British Columbia, Canada, and De Montfort University, UK. She has served on the program committee of several conferences and peer-reviewed journals including ACM, Foundations of Digital Games, Grace Hopper, and Nigeria Computer Society. She has published over 50 publications that have been presented in highly ranked conferences and journals including ACM, Elsevier, IEEE, and Springer. She has received several recognitions, fellowships, grants, and awards from international organizations, including the MacArthur Foundation, Commonwealth of UK, The Institute of International Education (IIE) WeTech, and The Schlumberger Foundation. She is a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery, a Fellow of the British Computer Society. She pioneered the Ibadan ACM Chapter where she was the Chapter Chair from 2012 to 2016. With a strong passion to promote diversity, inclusion, and belonging, she is committed to inclusiveness in the curriculum and in the classroom and implements strategies to motivate more girls and women into Computer Science. Dr. Folajimi founded and coordinates the Geek Girls Collaborative, a network of girls and women with the objective of empowering and motivating more African girls to be interested in Computer Science and technology. Through this platform, she has been impacting thousands of girls and women whom she mentors through summer camps, hackathons, and training programs annually. Aside from her academic, research, and outreach activities
Degrees
Achievements
Dr. Yetunde Folajimi is an Associate Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology. With a Ph.D. in computer science and research interests in artificial intelligence, games, recommender systems, machine learning, and natural language processing, she has about 20 years of faculty experience and has worked in interdisciplinary fields all over the world. She has served on the program committee of several conferences and peer-reviewed journals and received several recognitions, fellowships, grants, and awards on a global scale. She is a Senior Member of the ACM, a Fellow of BCS, and the pioneer Chair of the Ibadan ACM Chapter. With a strong passion to promote diversity, she implements strategies to bridge the gender gap in Computer Science.
My Work
CURRENT APPOINTMENT:
Associate Professor, Aug. 2019 till date, School of Computing and Data Science, Wentworth Institute of Technology
PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS:
(1) Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
(a) Visiting Fellow, College of Arts, Media and Design, 2017-2019
(b) Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Games Design Program, 2015-2017
(c) Adjunct Faculty, College of Computer and Information Science, 2016
(2) Quincy College, Quincy, MA, USA
(a) Adjunct Faculty, Department of Computer Science, Spring 2019
(3) University of Ibadan, Nigeria
(a) Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, 2014-2015
(b) Lecturer I, Department of Computer Science, 2011-2014
(c) Lecturer II, Department of Computer Science, 2008 - 2011
(4) Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Nigeria
(a) Adjunct Faculty, Department of Computer Science, 2012-2015
(5) Lagos State University, Ojo, Nigeria
(a) Adjunct Faculty, Department of Computer Science, 2011-2013
(6) De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom
(a) Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Computational Intelligence May-Aug 2012
(7) University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
(a) Research Scholar, School of Information Science, Feb-Mar 2010
(8) University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
(a) Research Scholar, Laboratory for Computational Intelligence, Sep 2009 - Feb 2010
(9) Department of Computer Science, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria
(a) Lecturer II, 2003 - 2008
(b) Assistant Lecturer, 2002 - 2003
(c) Graduate Assistant, 1999 - 2002
(d) National Youth Service Corps Worker, Jan 1998 - Dec 1998
EDUCATION
(1) PhD Computer Science, University of Benin, Nigeria, 2005-2011
(2) M. Sc., Computer Science, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria, 1998-2002
(C) B. Sc., Computer Science, University of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria, 1992-1997
PUBLICATIONS
40+ publications (listed in full resume):
13 peer-reviewed journal articles,
2 book chapters,
20 peer-reviewed conference proceedings
10 editorials
INVITED TALKS / LECTURES
20+ (Details in full resume)
STUDENTS ADVISING
Research/dissertation/thesis: 2 Ph. D, 20+ M. Sc., 100+ Bsc
Coop: 20+
ADMINISTRATION:
20+ committees
PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENTS
Fellow, British Computer Society
Senior Member, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
Member, Association for Learning Technologies (ALT)
Member, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
GRANTS, AWARDS
10+
Certifications
DIV1x: Communication Skills for Dialoguing Across Difference, 2021
UB1x: Unconscious Bias: From Awareness to Action, 2021