page_title: List of Nigerian Americans
section_title: Science and engineering
hierarchical_section_title: List of Nigerian Americans / Academia / Science and engineering
caption_attribution_description: English: Philip Emeagwali with scribbled Exxon-Mobil partial differential equations for petroleum reservoir simulations across an internet powered by 65,536 computers.
context_page_description: This is a list of notable Nigerian Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
  To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Nigerian American and must have references showing they are Nigerian American and are notable.
context_section_description: Francisca Oboh Ikuenobe, geologist and professor of geology at  the Missouri University of Science and Technology
  Deji Akinwande, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
  John Dabiri, professor of aerospace engineering at the California Institute of Technology, recipient of MacArthur Fellowship
  Akintunde Akinwande, professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Winston Wole Soboyejo, professor of mechanical engineering at Princeton University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  Alexander Animalu, theoretical physicist; member of the advisory board of the  Physica journal
  Philip Emeagwali, computer scientist; recipient of Gordon Bell Prize
  Ekpe Okorafor, professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Dallas
  Kunle Olukotun, computer scientist; professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University and director of the Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory
caption: Philip Emeagwali
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