Nigerian wins award, fellowship in US

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A United States-based Nigerian scholar, Taiwo Adebiyi, has been recognised as the recipient of the 2025–2026 Andrea Prosperetti Research Computing Student Award.

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He was recognised last week at the Spring Faculty and Staff Meeting of the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston.

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Adebiyi, a doctoral candidate and research assistant at Uncertainty Quantification Lab, Civil and Environmental Engineering in the university, was also selected for the 2026–2027 SCIPE Chishiki AI in Civil Engineering Graduate Fellowship.

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The fellowship was administered by the University of Texas at Austin.

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This was contained in a statement at the UH Uncertainty Quantification Lab website seen by Diaspora Tales on Thursday.

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“This annual award recognises one graduate student or postdoctoral researcher who has made outstanding contributions to research in scientific computing, data science, high-performance computing, and their applications,” the statement read.

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He received the award for his work on Transverse Section-roots, a new algorithmic and software framework for efficient and exact Gaussian Process Thompson Sampling in Bayesian optimisation.

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“The fellowship provides a $37,000 stipend, up to $12,000 in tuition allowance, travel support, computing access, and mentorship through the Chishiki AI network.

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“This summer, Taiwo will join Los Alamos National Laboratory as an Advancing Machine Learning for Scientific Discovery Fellow, a 10-week internship in Los Alamos, New Mexico,” it added.

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