Ayomikun “Ayo” Ayodeji ’22 of Lagos, Nigeria, has been chosen as a Rhodes Scholar for West Africa. He’ll start fully-funded postgraduate research on the College of Oxford in the UK subsequent fall.
Ayodeji was supported by Affiliate Dean Kim Benard and the Distinguished Scholarship group in profession advising {and professional} growth, and acquired further mentoring from the President’s Committee on Distinguished Scholarship.
“Ayo has labored arduous to develop his imaginative and prescient and categorical it in a means that can seize the creativeness of the world at massive. “It’s a pleasure to see him acknowledged as a Rhodes Scholar this yr,” says Professor Nancy Kanwisher, who co-chairs the committee with Professor Will Broadhead.
Ayodeji graduated from MIT in 2022 with a bachelor’s diploma in chemical engineering and administration. He’s at present a associate at Boston Consulting Group.
He’s captivated with advocating for dependable vitality entry throughout the African panorama and selling culturally inclusive communities. As a Rhodes Scholar, he’ll pursue a grasp’s diploma in vitality methods and a grasp’s diploma in international governance and diplomacy.
Whereas at MIT, Ayodeji’s curiosity about vitality improvements was fueled by his analysis on perovskite photo voltaic cells as a part of the MIT Vitality Initiative. He then interned at Pioneer Pure Sources the place he explored the limitless purposes of machine studying instruments in completions. At BCG, Ayodeji helps private and non-private sector shoppers on quite a lot of renewable vitality matters, together with the clear vitality transition, decarbonization roadmaps and workforce growth.
Ayodeji’s group spirit led him to group up with a bunch of mates and associate with the Northeast Youngsters’s Belief (NECT), a company that helps kids affected by the Boko Haram insurgency in northeastern Nigeria. The undertaking, sponsored by Davis Tasks for Peace and MIT’s PKG Middle, expanded NECT’s applications via an offline transportable classroom server.
Ayodeji served as an undergraduate consultant on the MIT Division of Chemical Engineering’s Range, Fairness, and Inclusion Committee. He additionally served as vp of the MIT African Scholar Affiliation and coordinator of MIT’s annual worldwide pupil orientation.
