Cornell Chronicle -- In the 2000s, Owolabi Legunsen, assistant professor of computer science, was a software engineer at a Nigerian company, primarily writing code for a finance company. ... To improve, Legunsen enrolled in a computer science graduate program at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he got his first taste of research. He realized, “this is it. I want to be there at the forefront, creating new knowledge for better software engineering.” He went on to earn a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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