Welcome to December!
Academic Hive is ending the year 2023 with this amazing young scholar for December, Augustine Ogbaji Otobi from Nigeria!
Augustine Ogbaji Otobi is an avid researcher who loves to use computational tools to investigate the Why, When, Where, and How of events, patterns, and systems represented by numbers. He bagged his first degree in computer science from the University of Calabar, Nigeria. Augustine’s research spans Data Science/Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
His career objective is to bridge gaps between the Town (industry) and Gown (academic research) by solving global problems around clinical medicine, forensics, and climate change using Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence as tools.
Augustine’s quest for knowledge has led to his academic pursuit at the PhD level, which has also led to several research and conference collaborations on a global scale.
As an early-career researcher, Augustine has carried out several research projects in the industry, which include web-based applications for insurance services, digital clinical systems for tuberculosis management using a deep learning approach, smart systems for illicit drug detection in latent fingerprints using a machine learning approach, and several others in progress.
Augustine takes advantage of the diversity in the research community as it relates to regions, countries, and institutions to foster a broadly conceived research output. His collaborations include scholars in Nigeria, Thailand, Ghana, Germany, USA, UK, Malaysia, India and New Zealand. He is always open to research collaborations to solve real-world problems and make human existence on earth hitch-free.
Augustine’s research and academic life have been a great blessing to his country and the world at large. One of his most recent contributions to the research community is his invaluable role in the facilitation of the 2023 Summer Institute of Computational Social Science (SICSS) in Calabar, convened by Academic Hive for African Scholars and the University of Calabar. As a facilitator and faculty member of SICSS Calabar, about twenty (20) researchers from different regions of Nigeria were equipped with computational social science skills with the R programming language and some other research and collaborative tools.
This giant stride is a product of like-minded minds from around the world collaborating to ensure the computational gap between the Town and Gown is bridged. As an early-career researcher, no doubt it is not an easy sail trying to contribute positively to both the Town and Gown, but also knowing that the Wheel of the Town (industry) is the Gown (applied research), and the will of the Gown is the Town that keeps me undeterred.
From experience, Augustine resolved to advocate the notion that both the Town and the Gown needs to be sustained by active applied researches and mutual collaborations between the Town and Gown.
Speaking to the minds of early-career researchers and industry stakeholders, let’s always think of what to contribute as Town or Gown because tomorrow depends on us and the world needs us.
Follow Augustine on Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/augustine-ogbaji-otobi-166756103/
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