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Benjamin Aribisala

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Benjamin Aribisala
4th Vice-Chancellor of Oduduwa University
Assumed office
1 January 2021
Appointed byRahmon Adedoyin
Preceded byChibuzo Nwoke
Personal details
Born
Benjamin Segun Aribisala

(1972-08-15) 15 August 1972 (age 52)
Ekiti, Nigeria

Benjamin Aribisala (born 15 August 1972) is a Nigerian academic. He is a professor of Computer Science and he is the immediate past Vice-Chancellor of Oduduwa University.[1][2][3]

Biography

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He was born in Ikoyi, Ikole local government area, on 15 August 1972.[1] He had his primary and secondary school education in Ikole Ekiti.[1] For University education, he attended Ekiti State University[1] where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Mathematics in 1994.[1] He obtained a master's degree in Computer Science from Federal University of Technology, Akure in 1999.[1] He obtained a PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Birmingham, UK in 2006.[1][4]

Awards and recognitions

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  • He is a Fulbright Scholar in the University of Chicago.[2]
  • He won the Young Investigators award, by the Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics, Los Angeles, USA in 2015[5][6]
  • He won the IBM faculty award in 2014.[7][8] and the British Council Researchers Link award in 2014[9][10][11]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Aribisala is Oduduwa varsity VC". The Sun. 13 January 2021.
  2. ^ a b Duru, Victor (17 November 2021). "Young Nigerian vice-chancellor defeats UK, Canada, others to win US scholarship". Legit.ng.
  3. ^ "Benjamin Segun Aribisala". Oduduwa University.
  4. ^ Odeyemi, Joshua (9 January 2021). "Professor Aribisala appointed VC of Oduduwa University". Daily Trust.
  5. ^ "Young Investigator Award - SBMT Annual Awards Gala". SBMT.
  6. ^ "The Young Investigators Award (YIA)". The University of Edinburgh.
  7. ^ "Benjamin Aribisala | e-AGE 18". asrenorg.net.
  8. ^ "Program Committee".
  9. ^ "LASU don gets £4000 British Council grant the Nation Newspaper". 20 March 2014.
  10. ^ "Six university lecturers get N8m from British Council". Vanguard News. April 23, 2014.
  11. ^ "LASU gets N1m British Council research grant". 19 March 2014.
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