My name is Lawrence
Obiuwevwi, and I am from Nigeria. I had my bachelor’s degree in electrical
engineering from the University
of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) in Nigeria. My
bachelor’s thesis was on “design and implementation of a wireless
electrical doorbell.” I proceeded to publish its journal
version. After completing my bachelors, I did
an engineering fellowship with Engineering for Change (E4C), an Autodesk
Foundation sponsored program for young
engineers, where I worked with a Spain-based company, Solaris
Offgrid, on building a smart reusable battery
module to help power rural homes across the globe. The technology aims to
revolutionize the use of rechargeable battery modules through hardware design
and programming.
My love for computer science is fueled by the ease with which we can build some wonderful products from readily available computing systems like computers, software, and data. I love the idea of interacting with computers, the human-computer understanding of events and storytelling, the modeling and simulation of present and past events, and being able to predict future occurrences for better preparations for and against such events. Over the last few years, I have developed my computer and programming skills and have built numerous websites and webpages. Chief among them is the Generative CAD Services website, generativecad.com.
Having a background in
building electrical and electronics hardware products gives me a holistic
understanding of how computer hardware works, and being a computer scientist
will enable me to have expertise in researching, analyzing, building, and
supervising complete technological product development from start to finish and
use.
I am currently doing my Ph.D. at the Computer Science department at Old Dominion University, Virginia. I started working with Dr. Sampath Jayarathna in the spring of 2024 at Nirds Lab and WS-DL Research Group ODU. I also started work with Dr. Rechowicz Krzysztof at the Storymodelers Lab in the Virginia Institute of Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC) as a graduate research assistant.
My research interests are, but are not limited to, emotion detection using physiological signals, eye tracking, web and software development, hardware programming, and human and computer interaction. I am currently working on emotion detection using physiological signals, with a major application being able to aid differently abled people, to communicate better and live more independently in their environments.
Respectfully,
Lawrence Obiuwevwi.