Mojeed Abisiga is a tenacious, brilliant and ingenious mathematician. A skilful data scientist, machine learning engineer, and AI and robotics specialist. Apart from the fact that he loves numbers and data, he has penmanship skills. Mojeed is a national and international award winner, a scholar and an ardent volunteer. When a 9-year-old start thinking about how robot works, know that he is brainy. At 14 years old, he visited Germany for a Robotic excursion. This visit sponsored by UNESCO avails him of the opportunity to get a deeper insight into AI.
He don dey hot since tey tey, I mean, reason am na, e choke. Mojeed had a goal, to become a renowned data professional. This dream made him an analytical puzzle solver and math guru. Mojeed made Nigeria proud in Bulgaria when he was chosen to represent us in a mathematics competition. Wetin na your own plan for Naija? Na we fit do our fatherland well o. This profile is a goldfish, you need to dive to the end.
Mojeed Abisiga- The Making of A Scholar
Mojeed Abisiga began his educational journey in the busy, productive, and waterfall city, the University of Lagos. He is a first-class graduate from the department of mathematics. Because of his obsession with providing solutions and working with data. Mojeed is currently doing his Masters’s degree in informatics and analytics at the University of South Carolina, USA. One of the main forces that push Mojeed is his dedicated Grandpa. The old man didn’t have access to education but he is ready to make all his descendants literate. Mojeed continues making Grandpa proud by bringing home awards and laurels.
He has participated in a number of impactful training and internships that widened his data horizon. Impact week’s design thinking, YTF’s hackathon, IBM’s data science and engineering training, and data analysis internship at SEAMFIX. Mojeed was a top participant during Microsoft’s DataHack4FI innovation challenge. So far, he had professional experiences in top industries like KPMG Nigeria and Deloitte. His colleagues and bosses gave testimonies of his data analytic expertise during his stay. Mojeed is currently a graduate research assistant at his university. His leadership, networking, and managerial skills earned him the senatorial position at the USC’s Graduate Student Association. Mojeed was nominated as the exceptional data scientist of the year 2021. He came out as the winner of his category, what a success! Like, when you don’t stop showing up, the world will root for you.
Mojeed Abisiga- A Perk of Wonders
Mojeed Abisiga was born with a love of tech close to his heart. There is always a first time for everything, Mojeed wasn’t left out. His first beginning as an intern and a full-time worker attracted criticism. What was the outcome? He worked on his weak points and became the go-to person for difficult tasks. Mojeed saw the criticisms as a learning/developmental stage. Regarding, the gender margin in tech, he feels the equation is not yet balanced. Communities like Data Science Nigeria are encouraging females to join the tech space.
The technology world is exponential, anyone who wants to make his way must be ready to constantly upskill. Networking and being updated about tech trends will make techies thrive. As a beneficiary of training and workshops, Mojeed is sure those are the ways to get more people into tech. However, he mentioned something impressive, wanna make a guess? “The Connected Award”, legends will always drop gems of thoughts. He feels appreciating techies will push them to do more.
Let’s Check in on Some Fun Facts
Mojeed is a mentor to many, he plans to give back value to the data community in the nearest future. Mojeed’s gift of emotional intelligence makes him a good speaker cum writer. I mean he can bring emotions into marketing, dis guy just make sense. What do you think Nerds like this do in their free time? Maybe they just chill with the literacy bugs in the library, you think. If you wan stabilize for life, know to say “Play na play, work na work”. Mojeed spends his free time volunteering in the data community through public speaking, training or hackathon. Other times, he chooses the fun way by going mountain hiking or taking shots of nature. If you don’t see him doing those, know that he is busy playing console games.
Mojeed, Abisiga, keep working hard, the sky is your starting point. A dose of love from the Techtrend Africa family.
