Hallowed Olaoluwa
Hallowed Olaoluwa
Olaoluwa, Hallowed Olaoluwa is a research fellow of the Mathematical Analysis and Optimisation Research Group and the youngest Ph.D. holder in Africa. He was born on September 27, 1989, in Bangui, Central African Republic (C.A.R).
** Education
He started primary education at the age of 5 and excelled in all subjects. His passion for arithmetics, geometry, computations and elementary Sciences caught the attention of his dad, who dedicated his time during the holidays to coach Hallowed in the advanced syllabus. Through his father’s encouragement, Hallowed was given a promotion mid-year from Level 5 to Level 6 of the primary. That was the beginning of an intellectual adventure of four double promotions.
Hallowed was the youngest to sit the French Baccalaureate (A’levels) in the C.A.R. at age 13. He obtained his BA at the age of 14 with the best result in Mathematics. He pursued Mathematics-Physics (MP) at the University of Bangui. In the third year, Hallowed chose to register separately for mathematics and physics and obtained concurrently two BSc degrees in Mathematics and Physics. He was granted the same permission to register separately and concurrently for Masters’ programs in Mathematics and Physics and obtained two Masters’ degrees with Distinction, all at the age of 19. He remains the first and only student to have completed two concurrent degrees in mathematics and physics at the undergraduate and masters level in the Central African Republic.
Afterward, he traveled to Lagos, Nigeria and enrolled for Ph.D. programme in Mathematics at the University of Lagos in 2011 at 21. He graduated in a record two years and 10 months as the Best Overall Graduating Ph.D. Student of the University of Lagos (2013) and the youngest person to be awarded a Ph.D. in Mathematics in Africa.
Hallowed’s Ph.D. research focuses on Functional Analysis, with a focus on Fixed Point Theory which has its applications in the optimization of allocations of resources such as network, power, workforce and Government Budget. Comprehensive optimization schemes have a tremendous impact on transportation network (traffic control, construction of routes to decongest heavy traffic), services offered by hospitals, industrial productivity and national budgets taking into account various economic, financial and social constraints.
2011-2013 Ph.D. in Mathematics in view * (Third and final year of Research)*
Title of Thesis: Studies on fixed points of contractive and expanding maps in multi-dimensional spaces.
University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos, Nigeria
2008-2008 M.Sc. Mathematics, Ph.D. grade
Award: Best M.Sc. Student, Department of Mathematics
University of Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic
2007-2008 M.Sc. Physics, Distinction
Award: Best M.Sc. Student, Department of Physics
University of Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic
2005-2007 B.Sc. Mathematics, First-class
Award: All-time Best Mathematics Result
University of Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic
2005-2007 B.Sc. Physics, First-class
Award: Best Graduating Physics Student
University of Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic
2003-2004 Higher Secondary School Certificate (A’ Levels)
Lycee d’Application de I’E.N.S.,
Bangui, Central African Republic
1999-2003 College Preparatoire International, Bangui, Central African Republic
Award: Three Double Promotions (Level 8 – 10, Level 10 – 12, Level 12 - 13)
Career
Hallowed currently is a research fellow of the Mathematical Analysis and Optimisation Research Group. He hopes to provide more answers to questions in quantum ergodicity and quantum chaos and how the answers apply to wider concepts of differentiation, medical imaging and robotics, and an interception.