Tuesday, 7 June 2016

Nigerian Scientist Deji Akinwande Awarded Highest Research Honour By President Barack Obama







A Nigerian professor,  Prof. Deji Akinwande has received the 2016 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Obama, the United States government’s highest honor for scientists and engineers.
Prof. Akinwande, an associate professor in electrical and computer engineering and the Jack Kilby/Texas Instruments Endowed Faculty Fellow in Computer Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.
He is currently an Associate Professor with the University of Texas at Austin. His current focus of  research explores materials and electronic systems based on 2D atomic layers. He is a co-inventor of a high-frequency chip-to-chip interconnect and an electrically small antenna for bio-electronics.

Prof. Akinwande is known for his groundbreaking research on nanomaterials, sensors, devices and flexible technology. He has been honored with the inaugural IEEE Nano Geim and Novoselov Graphene Prize.

Source: Lashley Oladigbolu (NUJ UK)

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