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Professional certifications, specialized training programs, academic honors, and professional society memberships.

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Certifications & Training

Professional Certifications

2024
Gurobi Training OPTI 202
Gurobi Optimization
2023
Machine Learning Specialization
Stanford University / DeepLearning.AI
2022
Airline Reliability Program Implementation
Institute of Nigeria Aeronautical Engineers
2021
Data Analyst — IBM Certified
IBM
2021
Reliability Engineering 101
UpKeep Learning
2021
Python for Data Science and AI
IBM via Coursera
2021
Aircraft Maintenance Human Factors Training
Triton Aerospace
2020
Project Management Foundations
LinkedIn Learning
2018
Basic Aircraft Systems
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Honors & Awards

Selected Awards

2026
Bronze Anna Valicek Medal — AGIFORS
Second-place winner; one of only two finalists worldwide. Airline Group of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies.
2026
Second Place — Inaugural American Airlines OR&AA-COMPASS Optimization Competition
Team Captain, TS-Optimizers. Co-sponsored by FICO; 13 teams from 8 universities.
2026
Departmental Winner & College Finalist — Danfoss Graduate Research Symposium
Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering; FAMU–FSU College of Engineering
2026 – 2027
Corning Endowed Doctoral Fellowship Award
$5,000
2025 – 2026
Corning Endowed Doctoral Fellowship Award
$4,000
2025
Nominee — IISE Doctoral Colloquium
Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers
2025
Third Place — Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition
FAMU School of Graduate Studies
2023 – 2024
Ted Rogers–Intuitive Scholars and Fellowship Program Award
$5,000
2022
Advance Africa Scholarship
Access Bank
2021
PyData Global Impact Scholar Conference Scholarship
2020
Ingressive for Good Python Developer Scholarship
2018
Best Legislator of the Year
Student Union Government, University of Nigeria
2016
Second Place Finalist — IMechE Global Engineering Debate
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
2013
Cardinal Francis Arinze Award
Best Graduating Student in Character and Academics
Memberships

Professional Bodies

AGIFORS — Airline Group of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies
INFORMS — Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences & Air Transportation Section
TRB YMC-A — Transportation Research Board Young Member Council – Aviation
ITE — Institute of Transportation Engineers
IISE — Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers
IMechE — Institution of Mechanical Engineers
GMNSE — Graduate Member, Nigeria Society of Engineers
Service to the Field

Peer Review & Judging

2025
Reviewer — TRB 106th Annual Meeting
Transportation Research Board · 15 papers reviewed for presentation and publication
2025
Reviewer — TRB 105th Annual Meeting
Transportation Research Board · 12 papers reviewed for presentation and publication
2025 & 2026
Reviewer — Bridging Transportation Researchers (BTR) Conference
BTR Conference
2025
Reviewer — Women in Machine Learning (WiML) Workshop
Co-located with NeurIPS
2025
Expert Judge — GLOBE International Virtual Science Symposium (IVSS)
NASA-sponsored
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