Dr. Oluwarotimi Williams Samuel received his BSc and MTech. Degrees in Computer Science in 2009 and 2014, with First Class Honors and Distinction, respectively. He further obtained a PhD. degree in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing in January 2018 courtesy of CAS-TWAS President’s fellowship award. In recognition of his outstanding performances during the study, he did receive several prestigious honors and awards including excellent international graduate and Best Paper Award. Between 2010 and 2014, he worked as a senior software engineer and program analyst with HTRDG Limited and State Information Technology Agency, correspondingly. He worked as a Postdoctoral research fellow between January 2018 and January 2020, after which he was appointed as an Associate Professor in January 2020 with the Centre for Neural Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. As principal investigator, he has received a number of research funding awards including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He is also the co-principal investigator of a number of ongoing international research collaborations and was recently honored with the 2019 IEEE outstanding young investigator research visit award to Sapienza University, Roma (Ranked Number one in Italy). He is the author/co-author of more than 90 articles, with over 1200 citations (i10-index: 29; h-Index: 19) on Google Scholar. He is an editorial board member of the Frontiers in Neurorobotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Neuroscience Journals. Also, he is a reviewer for IEEE TNRST, IEEE JBHI, and other reputable international peer-review journals.
