Prof. Benjamin Aribisala

Professor Aribisala Benjamin Segun is a Professor of Computer Science and a Fulbright Scholar. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Birmingham, U.K. He became a Professor of computer science in 2013. He has over 29 years of work experience as an academic staff and he has served at several leadership positions in the University, such as the Head of the Department of Computer Science, the Dean of the Faculty of Science, the Director of ICT, a member of the Governing Council in Lagos State University and Vice Chancellor of Oduduwa University. He has worked as an academic staff in the UK, USA and Nigeria. For example, Newcastle University (England, U.K.), the University of Edinburgh (Scotland, U.K.) and The University of Chicago (Illinois, USA) as a Fulbright Visiting Professor of Computer Science. He is currently a Professor of computer science at Lagos State University and the Director of the center of excellence for sargassum research at Lagos State University. In June 2024, he was appointed by the Governor of Lagos State, His Excellency, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu as a member of the Lagos State Research and Innovation Council. His research interest cuts across data science, medical image analysis, machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence. His research focuses on improving medical diagnosis, quality of life, and life expectancy. According to google scholar, and as at 19th June 2024, Professor Aribisala has been cited 8,546 times at more than 50 countries. His h-index is 35 and his i10-index is 61. He has 4 publications in Nature and he has given presentations at 6 continents, covering the UK, USA, China, Canada, Jordan, Germany, Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, Portugal and so on. He has won many international awards, e.g. Young Investigators award from the Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics, Los Angeles USA in 2015. In 2017, he won the Best Paper Award at the SCI-GAIA European Organisation Conference, Pretoria, South Africa. He won the prestigious Fulbright scholarship in 2022 and that gave him the opportunity to visit the University of Chicago where he conducted research on breast cancer and machine learning. He is a member of many professional bodies, for example, the Computer Professional Registration Council of Nigeria, British Computer Society, IEEE, Organization of Human Brain Mapping and International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Computer Society.