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Temiloluwa Prioleau

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Temiloluwa O. Prioleau is a Nigerian computer scientist, assistant professor of computer science at Dartmouth College. In January 2019, she became the first black woman tenure-track faculty member in computer science at an Ivy League university.[1] Her research work is on the application of data science to human sensing and healthcare.[2]

Early Life

Prioleau's father was an electrical engineer. She grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, attending a local primary school and later boarding school in Nigeria. She moved to the United States when she was in 11th grade, finishing high school in Texas.[1] She gained a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2010 before completing a Masters and then PhD at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2016.[3]

Prioleau was a postdoctoral fellow at Rice University, after which she became an assistant professor of computer science at Dartmouth College, starting in January 2019.[3] She co-directs the Augmented Health Lab at Dartmouth, and is an affiliate of the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH).

References

  1. ^ a b Adji B. Dieng (October 14, 2020). "Meet Nigerian Temiloluwa O. Prioleau, the first Black woman tenure-track faculty in Computer Science in the Ivy League". The Africa I Know. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
  2. ^ "Temiloluwa O. Prioleau". Dartmouth College. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Alumni Profile: Temiloluwa Prioleau". The University of Texas at Austin. February 12, 2021. Retrieved March 20, 2021.