I am an Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) Ph.D. student at the University
of Maryland (UMD), College Park, MD, USA, where I am advised by Professor John S. Baras, Distinguished University Professor and Endowed Lockheed Martin Chair
in Systems Engineering, and Professor Calin Belta, Brendan Iribe Endowed Professor of ECE and Computer Science. My research interests broadly span the intersection of control theory, reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, and robotics. At UMD, I am affiliated with the Institute for Systems Research and the Systems Engineering & Integration Laboratory. I have also received the Dean's Fellowship from UMD's Graduate School and the Microsoft Diversity in Robotics and Autonomy PhD Fellowship, awarded through a collaboration between Microsoft Corporation and the Maryland Robotics Center.
Prior to resuming doctoral studies at UMD, I completed a year-long stint as a robotics trainee at Nigeria's foremost robotics and AI research center — Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Nigeria (RAIN). At RAIN, I worked with Dr. Olusola Ayoola on varied projects spanning robot navigation, visual SLAM, and robot control. Before that, in affiliation with the Electrical Engineering Department at my alma mater, I collaborated with Ihechiluru Okoro on research topics at the intersection of robust control, observer-based compensator design, and feedback control of time-delayed dynamical systems.
I earned my undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nigeria, working under the supervision of Dr. Udoka Nwaneto. My bachelor's thesis focused on model-based controller design for speed regulation in electric drives.
