Hezekiah

Babatunde

Courses Taught

• CSC 1180 – C++ Programming
• CSC 2180 – Data Structures
• CSC 3600 – Operations Research

Research Interests

• Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Methods
• Machine Learning and Data Science
• Image Analysis and Computer Vision
• Systems Biology

Current project (UVA 3C $60,000.00 grant ; August 2021 - July 2022) :  Neuro-Genetic Dynamical Systems for Viral Infection (COVID-19) Modeling and Analysis

Participants:  Dr Hezekiah, O.B (PI),  Dr Jan Fiala  (Co-PI), Dr Shen Haiying  (Co-PI), Daniel Rose (UVA-Wise BSc Student), Tanner Lawson (UVA-Wise B.Sc Student) and Shoaib M (UVA PhD Student)”

Professional Memberships

• The Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB)
• Association for Computer Machinery (ACM)
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

Awards

• Top 10 Fresh Scientists in WA, Australia, 2015 ( FreshScience WA)
• Best Paper Award at 9th Conference of the Asian Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, WA Australia (AFITA 2014)
• Edith Cowan University International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (ECUIPRS 2013) Award-Highly prestigious and competitive PhD scholarship
• Industry and PhD Research Engagement Program of Western Australia (iprepWA 2015)

Professional Activities

• Reviewer: PLOS Computational Biology (PlosCompBIO
• Reviewer: Journal of Advances in Mathematics and Computer Science (JAMCS)
• Reviewer: The 2018 ACM Southeast Conference “, Kentucky, USA. (ACMSE)
• Reviewer: Machine Vision and Applications (MVAP)

Selected Publications

• Babatunde Oluleye, Baltes Ashley, Yin John (2017). Image-based identification of cell cultures by machine Learning. Journal of Advances in Mathematics and Computer Science. 23(1): 1-25.
• Nwani, S. E., Kelani, F. A., Ozegbe, A. E., & Babatunde, O. H. (2018). Public health expenditures, environmental pollution and health outcomes: Evidence from Nigeria. South Asian Journal of Social Studies and Economics, 1-15.
• Babatunde Oluleye, Armstrong Leisa J, Leng Jinsong and Diepeveen Dean (2015a). A survey of computer-based vision systems for automatic identification of plant species. Journal of Agricultural Informatics, 6(1),61-71.
• Babatunde Oluleye, Armstrong Leisa J, Leng Jinsong and Diepeveen Dean (2015b). A computer-based vision system for automatic identification of plant species using kNN and genetic PCA. Journal of Agricultural Informatics.
• Babatunde Oluleye, Armstrong Leisa J, Leng Jinsong and Diepeveen Dean (2015c). Comparative analysis of Genetic Algorithm and Particle Swam Optimization: An application in precision agriculture. Asian Journal of Computer & Information Systems.
• Babatunde Oluleye, Armstrong Leisa J, Leng Jinsong and Diepeveen Dean (2015d). A neuronal classification system for plant leaves using genetic image segmentation. British Journal of Mathematics & Computer Science, 9(3), 261-278. doi: 10.9734/BJMCS/2015/14611.
• Babatunde Oluleye, Armstrong Leisa J, Leng Jinsong and Diepeveen Dean (2014). Zernike Moments and Genetic Algorithm: Tutorial and Application. British Journal of Mathematics & Computer Science. 4(15) :2217- 2236.