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2023 IMU-Simons Africa Fellowship Recipients

Olutayo Oyeyemi Oyerinde

Olutayo Oyeyemi Oyerinde is an associate professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He was hosted by Prof. Tomasz Marciniak at the Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, Poland. During the research period, Olutayo Oyeyemi Oyerinde did research on "Compressive Sensing Based Channel Estimation Schemes for Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS)-Aided 6G Wireless Networks".

Ezzinbi Khalil

Ezzinbi Khalil is an associate professor at the Cadi Ayyad University, Egypt. He was hosted by Prof. Mamadou Abdoul Diop at the Gaston-Berger University, Senegal. During the research period, Ezzinbi Khalil did research on the quantitative and qualitative analysis for stochastic partial functional differential equations.

Ivric Valaire Yatat Djeumen

Ivric Valaire Yatat Djeumen is an senior lecturer at the University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon. He will be hosted by Prof. Jonathan Touboul at the Brandeis University, USA. During the research period, Ivric Valaire Yatat Djeumen will do research on nonlocal effects in mathematical models of spatial ecology and the impact of herbivores and fires in the savanna-forest ecosystems.

Ivric Valaire Yata Djeumen had to cancel his research visit.

Josephine Kagunda

Josephine Kagunda is an senior lecturer at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. She was hosted by Prof. Greg Rempala at the Ohio State University, USA. During the research period, Josephine Kagunda did research on the interplay between chemical reaction network and epidemiology by exploring the concept of a giant component as a central theme when considering disease propagation in networks.

Susan El-Deken

Susan El-Deken is an associate professor at the Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt. She was hosted by Prof. Alfred Geroldinger at the University of Graz, Austria. During the research period, Susan El-Deken di research on factorization theory of rings and semigroup in algebra.