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Olumuyiwa Sunday Asaolu obtained a B.Sc in Civil Engineering from the University of Lagos (UNILAG) in 1991. Here, he also earned an M.Sc in Engineering Analysis (1995) and a PhD in Engineering Analysis (2002), being the only recipient till date. He was a trainee Civil/Systems Engineer with Zentech Nig Ltd before joining the engineering faculty of UNILAG in 1995. He was an exchange-student at the doctoral level at the University of Oklahoma, USA in 1999 and a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Tennessee, USA between November 2003 and October 2005. He is currently an Associate Professor of Systems Engineering at UNILAG. He served as the Acting Head of the Department between August 2010 - July 2012 and August 2014 - July 2017. His research interests and publications cover Artificial Intelligence, Systems Modeling and Analysis. He has conducted and published original work in robotics path planning, solving simultaneous non-linear equations, word-processing and translation of African languages, etc. He is a recipient of several scholarly awards including: Nigerian Best Researcher Software Developer (2001), the World Academy of Sciences & Inter Academy Panel Young Scientist for 2009. In 2021, his research team obtained a Patent for establishing that Laugher is a novel biometric. He has successfully supervised and mentored several doctoral candidates. Dr. Asaolu is a registered Engineer and member/Fellow of several professional bodies.