A Nigerian Professor, 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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