A Nigerian professor in the United States, 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 in the early stages of research.


Prof. Akinwande is 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.

Earlier in the year, precisely in February Akinwande was named by President Barack Obama, as one of the recipients of the 105 recipients of PECASE awards.
He is currently an Associate Professor with the University of Texas at Austin. The current focus of his 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.

Speaking to the newsmen on Monday, Akinwande said he was awarded by Obama on May 5, 2016, at the White House, where the 105 researchers were hosted.
According to the White House, Akinwande was awarded for his "outstanding research accomplishments in nanomaterials, graphene device physics, and opto-electronics, and for dedication to the education of future scientists and engineers."

Now in its 20th year, the Presidential Early Career Awards are coordinated through the President’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, which selects winners “for their pursuit of innovative research at the frontiers of science and technology and their commitment to community service as demonstrated through scientific leadership, public education, or community outreach."

Prof. Akinwande is known for his groundbreaking research on nanomaterials, sensors, devices and flexible technology. He is considered one of the top researchers in the world in the areas of graphene, silicon electronics and 2-D nanomaterials for use in flexible electronics. In 2015, Akinwande created the first transistor out of silicene, the world’s thinnest silicon material, and he is continuing to advance the capabilities of computer chips and other electronics.

Prof. Akinwande has been the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Inaugural IEEE NANO “Geim and Novoselov Graphene Prize,” an IEEE Early Career Award in Nanotechnology, a National Science Foundation Career Award, an Army Research Office Young Investigator award, and a Young Investigator award from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

Announcing the winners earlier in the year, Obama said: “These early-career scientists are leading the way in our efforts to confront and understand challenges from climate change to our health and wellness.
“We congratulate these accomplished individuals and encourage them to continue to serve as an example of the incredible promise and ingenuity of the American people.”

According to NUJ Europe Chapter, Akinwande, who grew up in Opebi Allen in the Ikeja area of Lagos State, left Nigeria as a teenager in 1994, and his novel idea was aimed at building more energy efficient electronic chips to make mobile phones last a week or two without charging.

According to University of Texas at Austin, Deji Akinwande received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2009, where he conducted research on the synthesis, device physics, and circuit applications of carbon nanotubes and graphene. His Master’s research in Applied Physics at Case Western Reserve University pioneered the design and development of near-field microwave probe tips for nondestructive imaging and studies of materials.

Prof. Akinwande has been honored with the inaugural IEEE Nano Geim and Novoselov Graphene Prize, the NSF CAREER award, the Army and DTRA Young Investigator awards, the 3M Nontenured Faculty Award, and was a past recipient of fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Stanford DARE Initiative. He is one of the directors of the NASCENT ERC center at UT Austin.

He recently co-authored a textbook on carbon nanotubes and graphene device physics by Cambridge University Press, 2011. His work on flexible graphene systems was selected as among the “best of 2012” by the nanotechweb online technology news portal and has been featured on MIT’s technology review and other technical media outlets.

Source: Lashley Oladigbolu (NUJ UK)


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amazing

Son of the soil, making us proud.

There are many tins God gifted Nigerians apart from natural resources...........he wouldn't ave been given any honour if he discovered dose tins in Nigeria datz why we ave a f**cking long way to go in diz nation.........there are issues of economic crises,insecurity,bad roads,no electricity nd many more nd we nw expect d govt to remember a professor with a discovery,am nt saying it is right not to award dem bt we shuld not blame dem if dey don't......if USA jagajaga lyk naija do u tink dey will even rememba their own citizen talkless of outsiders.....

kenonze:
Why always Yoruba.
Was expecting to hear... Nneka, Chima, Asari, Tompolo, Faruk

Yoruba, Haua or Igbo-every tribe is making Nigeria proud. We are just extremely gifted

When we are not thinking of being a nuisance to each other and focused on being a better individual, this is what we can achieve.

Nice one!

and he wont get this recognised in his own country.smh.

Name Checkers Association of Nigeria (NCAN), South East Branch, opposite Ohanaeze Building, Enugu.

It can't be anybody other than our brother from the west. Not drug pushers and gays we've here in the east.

just here to check names,wasn't suprised,its always us



nice one,keep repping us!

impressive

Good news coming from westside...


Honorary award in "MEDICINE" not a dishonorable recognition in "DRUGS'' like some pipu....

*I no mention anybody oooo*

Twaci:
When we are not thinking of being a nuisance to each other and focused on being a better individual, this is what we can achieve.

Nice one!

God bless you!

I expected pix of him with Obama

Congrats our south-western neighbour.

Good things come from the south of Nigeria.

From the North all we get are the forest based Boko Haram & their mobile division named the Fulani Herdsmen.

Well I blame the Christians from the South-West for these.

Had they read their bible they would have seen the warning about Change.

Proverbs 24 (KJV)
21 My son, fear thou the Lord and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:

22 For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?

our South-Eastern Cousins still have the highest cutoff marks becos they are the smartest.
Thank Goodness our South-Eastern Cousins aligned with the south-south.

Nevertheless Congrats again to our south-western neighbour.

This time around na Oodua, lol....#kidding

This is the kind of good news we should b celebrating in Nija, Proudly Nigerian on this particular one

God pls take ova 9ija's political structures and put it in the hands of patriots oh Lord

Nice one. I hope this doesn't turn to tribal war. He's making every Nigerian proud..Hausa, Yoruba or Igbo.
I'm Yoruba by the way

contactmorak:


Yoruba, Haua or Igbo-every tribe is making Nigeria proud. We are just extremely gifted

it's has always been either IGBO or yoruba


since i was born till now i never seen or heard any hausa/fulani name in the list of diaspora archievers

Great men making the country proud in a unique way.

This is awesome.

kenonze:
Why always Yoruba.
Was expecting to hear... Nneka, Chima, Asari, Tompolo, Faruk

Tomorrow u go dey shout one Nigeria. When u don already divide the country for ur heart

Do you know his talents and potentials could have been reconfigured if he had chosen to stay back at Nigeria
God please help me with a Canadian visa, my talent is washing away in this country, I need a conducive environment to develop

nonsense ordinary research.. Price wont even reach $1000

When Igbo man philip emeagwali don bag better award tire,
This olodo the get award for research the happy.
I sure say na research to trace fall of Naira him go do get that award.

Omo yoruba ni mi ooo! Swagga!

If it was the biafrauds now, we will not hear word again

[size=18pt]Africans are Fantastically Dumb and stvpid. [/size]

White men hate us and in turn we hate each other. I'm sure we are cursed.

It is well

quota system killing Nigeria softly softly

This shows that nigeria are been recognise in the world.