Toluwani Okunola
Department of Mathematics, Tufts University, Joyce Cummings Center, 177 College Avenue, Medford, MA 02155
Toluwani Okunola
Department of Mathematics, Tufts University, Joyce Cummings Center, 177 College Avenue, Medford, MA 02155
Welcome! And thank you for stopping by.
I am a PhD student at Tufts University, Medford, USA under the supervision of Professor Misha Kilmer (Tufts University) and Professor Mirjeta Pasha (Virginia Tech). My research lies in the intersection of computational science, image restoration, optimization, and machine learning.
Before joining Tufts University, I was a master's student at the Technical University of Berlin, funded by the Berlin Mathematical School (BMS Phase One Scholarship). My Master's thesis explored data-driven models for battery degradation under the supervision of Professor Dietmar Homberg.
While in Berlin, I worked as a research assistant at two leading research institutes in Germany: the Zuse Institute, Berlin (ZIB) and the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS).
Between 2020 and 2021, I studied for a year at the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, supported by the ICTP Postgraduate Diploma Scholarship. Under the guidance of Professor Stefano Luzatto, I wrote a thesis on the existence and approximation of the unique physical measure of the Manneville-Pomeau map.
I hold a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics (First Class Honors) from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. I was awarded several scholarships and graduated as the overall best student in 2019.
I have a YouTube Channel where I answer questions you are asking about academia and a LinkedIn page with a community size of over 20,000 where I talk about navigating academia, talk about scientific research to a generally non-scientific audience in order to bridge the gap between academic research and communication in my little way, and mentor younger students. I am available to collaborate on these platforms.
I am a Christian, and I am married to the love of my life. Here's a link to my non-official blog about my faith and non-mathematical topics.