Omolola Ogbolumani
University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Faculty Mentor: Junhong Chen, a Crown Family Professor of Molecular Engineering in the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the Lead Water Strategist at Argonne National Laboratory
RESEARCH:
Omolola Ogbolumani is an Electrical and Electronics Engineer specializing in smart sustainability, with a focus on the intersection of food, energy, and water systems, and on waste management for a circular economy and a sustainable environment. While conducting research at the University of Chicago as an Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Faculty Fellow, Ogbolumani will develop artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models (e.g., Graph Neural Networks and Long-Short Term Memory networks) to optimize the Food-Energy-Water Nexus (FEW-N) with a focus on human-centered sustainability within the Fifth Industrial Revolution. The Fifth Industrial Revolution refers to an emergent phase of civilization wherein there is an emphasis on complex human-machine collaboration, sustainability, and resilience, blending sophisticated AI and ML with automation and data, centered on human ethics as well as societal and environmental well-being. Ogbolumani’s use of AI and ML models will be able to indicate how to coordinate real-time decisions, constraints, and trade offs across the FEW-N to boost human well-being, ecosystem health, and overall resilience in the Fifth Industrial Revolution. While at UChicago, Ogbolumani will be collaborating with Prof. Junhong Chen, a Crown Family Professor of Molecular Engineering in the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the Lead Water Strategist at Argonne National Laboratory.
BIO:
Omolola Ogbolumani completed her PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the University of Johannesburg in 2022, where she was supervised by Prof. Nnamdi Nwulu. Her multidisciplinary research has focused on developing a hybrid decision-making framework for optimal resource allocation in the FEW-N including in agriculture, energy, and water systems, demand response for renewables, and policy guidance for resource security. Currently, Ogbolumani is a faculty member in the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Ogbolumani’s Google Scholar Profile is accessible here.