A Professor of Nigerian descent, Ilesanmi Adesida made history last
month by becoming the first black Provost/Vice Chancellor for Academic
Affairs of the well-respected University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
in the United States.
Born in Ondo State,
Prof Adesida is a Nigerian engineer whose outstanding work in the field
of Nanotechnology has received much acclaim in the scientific community.
He
obtained his Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Engineering
from the University of California, Berkeley and subsequently went on to
develop a body of work in the processing of semiconductors and other
materials at the nanometer-scale level.
After his studies, he
worked in various capacities at what is now known as the Cornell
Nanofabrication Facility and the School of Electrical Engineering,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. He was also the head of the Electrical
Engineering Department at Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Nigeria.
Commenting
on his recently appointed role, Prof Adesida said: “I’m honoured and
humbled to be selected as provost of this great campus. This is
something I take very seriously. I know how to work very hard and I’m
ready to roll up my sleeves and get the job done.”
Prof
Adesida is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE), the American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS), the American Vacuum Society, and the Optical Society of
America. He is also the past-president of IEEE Electron Devices Society
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