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Temiloluwa Adesola

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Hobbies & Interests

  • Soccer
  • 3D Modeling
  • Agriculture
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Bible Study
  • Cars and Automotive Engineering
  • Zoology
  • Wrestling
  • Studying
  • STEM
  • Robotics
  • Boxing
  • Engineering
  • Aerospace
  • Art
  • Chess

Reading

  • Academic
  • Biography
  • Business
  • Adventure
  • History
  • Marriage
  • Self-Help
  • Young Adult
  • Spirituality
  • Mystery
  • Science Fiction
  • Science‎

I read books multiple times a month.

Bio

Temiloluwa Adesola grew up watching his continent bear the weight of problems the world hadn’t yet solved. That tension — between what is and what could be — is what eventually drove him across an ocean to pursue answers through science. Now based in Jackson, MS, Temi is a 2024 summa cum laude graduate and current master’s student working at the intersection of engineering and environmental science. His research focuses on developing sensor technologies that monitor marine ecosystems — tools designed to detect environmental stress before it becomes irreversible damage. For Temi, this isn’t abstract. It’s personal. The communities most vulnerable to environmental collapse are often the ones with the least voice in conversations about fixing it. Outside the lab, he runs — not as a hobby, but as a form of discipline and clarity. The same patience required to push through long distances is the one he brings to research problems that don’t yet have easy answers. He reads philosophy for a similar reason: he believes the way people think about questions matters just as much as the tools used to answer them. TemI isn’t simply pursuing a career in technology. He hopes to become the kind of engineer and researcher capable of creating systems that leave people, communities, and the world better than he found them.

Education

Jackson State University

Master's degree program

2025 – 2027

Majors:
  • Drafting/Design Engineering Technologies/Technicians
  • Computer Science
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering
Minors:
  • Computer Science

Jackson State University

Bachelor's degree program

2020 – 2024

Majors:
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering
Minors:
  • Computer Science

Miscellaneous

Desired degree level:
Doctoral degree program (PhD, MD, JD, etc.)
Graduate schools of interest:
Princeton University, Stanford University
Majors of interest:
Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Business/Commerce, General, Science, Technology and Society

Career

  • Develop sensor devices to track air qulaity of chicken coops for african farmers

    Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing · Contractual

    Jan 2023 – Present

  • Academic tutor

    Education · Jackson State University

    Jan 2020 – Present

  • Research Assistant

    Technology · MBRACE

    Jan 2022 – Present

Miscellaneous

Dream career field:
Technology
Dream career goals:
I hope to have my own technology company in the future. I personally believe current big tech companies do not have enough strong competition. A competent society progresses exponentially.
Has nursing license:
No

Future Interests

  • Politics
  • Volunteering
  • Philanthropy
  • Entrepreneurship
Learner Math Lover Scholarship
For most of my life, I was x. The variable. The unknown. The thing the equation was still working toward. I grew up in Lagos — a city that moves like a differential equation: constantly changing, rarely linear, always pushing toward something even when the path looks impossible to follow. There, I learned early that the world doesn't wait for you to understand it before demanding you participate. You calculate on your feet, or you fall behind. Math in Lagos felt nothing like how textbooks describe it. It wasn't abstract. It was the market woman calculating change for three customers simultaneously without a single pause. It was the bus driver negotiating geometry through traffic that had no business resolving itself — and yet it always did. It was my own mind, mapping circuits and current and cause-and-effect long before I had formal language for any of it. Math wasn't a subject in Lagos. It was the language the city spoke underneath all its noise. When I crossed an ocean and arrived at Jackson State University to study electrical engineering, I expected the equation to change entirely. In many ways, it did. New country, new system, new variables. But the one constant — and math taught me to trust constants — was that numbers don't lie regardless of which continent you're standing on. The truth doesn't shift with the time zone. That universality is what I love most. In a life defined by enormous change, math has been the fixed point around which everything else rotates. My origin. My proof that some things hold regardless of the values of the variables. I want to build systems for people who've been excluded from them — engineered solutions in places where the infrastructure has always fallen short. Because I believe the most powerful argument you can make for a community is a functional one. Something that works. Something that proves the math was right all along. x has a value. I'm still deriving it. But I've never once doubted the equation.
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