Ezekiel Adebiyi is a Nigerian bioinformatics professor and research scientist. He was appointed president of Nigerian Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. He was also appointed vice-president of

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. In 2010, he was made a professor at

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, becoming the first bioinformatics professor in West Africa.

Early life and education

Adebiyi was born on 28 July 1970 in

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, Nigeria, although he is a native of

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area of

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. He had his secondary school at United Community Secondary School,

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. Between 1987 and 1991, he studied Mathematics at

University of Ilorin University of Ilorin, also known as Unilorin, is a federal government-owned university in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. It was established by a decree of the federal military government in August, 1975. The establishment aimed to implement one o ...

graduating as the best graduating student. He also completed his master's degree from the same institution in 1995. His doctorate thesis was on ''Pattern Discovery in Biology and Strings Sorting: Theory and Experimentation'', which he concluded in 2002 at

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Academic career and research interests

Adebiyi began his lecturing career immediately after graduation at

. In 2003, he withdrew from the school to become a visiting scientist at several research centers including

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and

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. He continued with research before joining

Computer science department in 2008. He was appointed professor in 2010. Between 2007 and 2011, Adebiyi was the vice president of

. After his tenure, he became the secretary of the professional body, and the president of Nigeria Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (NISBCB). He has worked on the elimination of malaria in Nigeria.

References

External links

Ezekiel Adebiyi profile
in

Living people University of Tübingen alumni University of Ilorin alumni Academic staff of Covenant University 1970 births {{Nigeria-academic-bio-stub