Company: Georgia State University 
Current position: Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant
Age: 26              
Education: BS geoscience information system and remoting sensing, Federal University of Technology Akure; MS geological and earth sciences/geosciences, Georgia State University

Fagunloye is a graduate research and teaching assistant at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He also worked as an ESG/sustainability intern at the Wylde Center in Decatur, Georgia; geospatial data analyst and insights intern for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT); GIS and remote sensing manager at Nigeria Flying Labs; and a climate data analyst at the Center for Space Research and Applications, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria.

At the Federal University of Technology in Nigeria his undergraduate thesis was Mapping Flood Risk Zones Using a Multi-Criteria Approach and Radar. Olamiposi expects to earn his Master’s in Geosciences with a concentration in geography from Georgia State in December.

Jeremy E. Diem was Olamiposi’s Master’s thesis adviser and his instructor in global climate change in the Department of Geosciences at Georgia State. He noted that Olamiposi “has focused his efforts on using geographic information science (GIS) to better understand environmental phenomena. He has taken every GIS course in the department and has excelled in all of them. His thesis, which examines intra-annual variations in urban effects on precipitation, has a heavy GIS component and has the potential to show exactly where precipitation enhancement occurs in the Atlanta region.”

Akpofure Fakpor taught Olamiposi at the Federal University of Technology in Akure and was also his academic advisor and supervisor. “I have had the privilege of witnessing his exceptional dedication, skills, and passion for leveraging geospatial technologies to drive positive change.”