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Dr. Yetunde Folajimi is an Associate Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, USA. With Ph.D. in computer science and research interests in artificial intelligence, educational games, recommender systems, machine learning, and natural language processing, she has about 20 years experience teaching in higher institutions and has served as an advisor to over 100 undergraduate and graduate research work. She has worked with colleagues and students from diverse backgrounds in interdisciplinary fields all over the world, including the University of Ibadan and Nnamdi Azikiwe university in Nigeria, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Northeastern University USA, the University of Pittsburgh USA, the University of British Columbia, Canada, and De Montfort University, UK. She has served on the program committee of several conferences and peer-reviewed journals including ACM, Foundations of Digital Games, Grace Hopper, and Nigeria Computer Society. She has published over 50 publications that have been presented in highly ranked conferences and journals including ACM, Elsevier, IEEE, and Springer. She has received several recognitions, fellowships, grants, and awards from international organizations, including the MacArthur Foundation, Commonwealth of UK, The Institute of International Education (IIE) WeTech, and The Schlumberger Foundation. She is a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery, a Fellow of the British Computer Society. She pioneered the Ibadan ACM Chapter where she was the Chapter Chair from 2012 to 2016. With a strong passion to promote diversity, inclusion, and belonging, she is committed to inclusiveness in the curriculum and in the classroom and implements strategies to motivate more girls and women into Computer Science. Dr. Folajimi founded and coordinates the Geek Girls Collaborative, a network of girls and women with the objective of empowering and motivating more African girls to be interested in Computer Science and technology. Through this platform, she has been impacting thousands of girls and women whom she mentors through summer camps, hackathons and training programs annually. Aside her academic, research and outreach activities, Dr Folajimi is a devoted Christian who is committed to regularly preaching the Gospel.
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