About us
Who we are
Black in Mathematics (BMA) aims to bring together black mathematicians from around the world to leverage common interests and goals in research, collaborations, funding and mentorship.
The exclusion of isolation and identity problems fueled by racism, xenophobia, and hostility in the surroundings experienced in our daily lives is the essence of the Black Mathematics Association (BMA).
Black in Mathematics Association was established to identify with the underrepresented black Mathematicians that are committed to a life of growth, research at the local and international level, collaboration, training and community service to humanity and re-orientation of application of
mathematics to real-life problems to grassroots. The cycle of discrimination and marginalization has perpetuated degrees of imbalance in the academic sect and impoverished the black mathematicians the merits of progress to scientific findings.
The association engages in activities that aid and sustain partnerships with universities, private sectors, research institutes, and the growth of black Mathematicians. The prospects of the association will yield the growth of graduate students into scholars, an increase in collaborative research outputs that give solutions and interpretations to scientific problems in the community through journals, funding agencies support, and representing the concerns and the development of black Mathematicians around the globe.
Black in Mathematics Association is a non-profit organization.
Registration: 2022/396451/08
Our Mission
The following states our mission and commitment:
- Be a voice to the black mathematicians across the globe by integrating the accomplishment and exploits of black Mathematicians.
- Establish collaborative research, and secure funding to help underrepresented scholars in graduate schools, and employment opportunities among black Mathematicians.
- Extending the reach of black Mathematicians with influence/contribution to the industry,
accessing grants by government and private institutions to support projects that proffer solutions to real-life problems. - Ensuring equity in academia and industry (private and government institutions) through science
communication, outreach, and professional training. - Using our professional expertise to promote scientific findings
- Committed to the career advancement of early career researchers in Mathematics and a responsible association.
Meet US
Dr. Adejimi Adeniji is a postdoctoral research fellow at Tshwane University of Technology. Present research focuses on infectious disease and epidemiological modeling. He is also working on unemployment and bullying model, and Numerical Analysis. He is the founder of Black in Mathematics Association.
Dr. Kayode Oshinubi is the co-founder of the BMA, and manages both the research and mentorship arm of the association. A postdoctoral research fellow at Northern Arizona University. His research on data modeling, disease modeling, disease ecology, and epidemiological modeling.
Organizing and Outreach
Dr Tolulope Latunde is a mathematician who specializes in optimization and financial mathematics, and currently serving as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. His current research is in the optimal execution and sensitivity analysis for analyzing and predicting financial risk. He is the team lead for the Organizing and Outreach arm of Black in Mathematics Association.
Dr. Emmanuel Jesuyon Dansu is currently a Postdoctoral Guest Researcher at the Ecological Integration Laboratory, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. His research interests lie in the mathematical modelling of population dynamics in ecology, epidemiology and sociology.
He is the assistant team lead for the Programmes arm of Black in Mathematics Association.
Dr. Nneka Iheonu is an early career researcher and Mathematics lecturer, presently in Nigeria. She's passionate about using mathematical models to study life systems, with special interest in its' application in the area of mathematical biology, to study infectitious diseases epidemiology and their control.
Dr. Nneka is also the assistant team lead for the organizing and logistics arm of Black in Mathematics Association.
DataCamp and BMA Team
Currently a graduate student of Mathematics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. His research is in computational mathematics with application to Finance and portfolio optimization. Currently working as a Mathematician with a financial company on a part-time basis and a team member of DataCamp and BMA Patrnership.
