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Hakeem Oluseyi

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Hakeem Oluseyi
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Personal details
Born
James Edward Plummer, Jr.

March 13, 1967(1967-03-13) (age 57)[1][2][3]
New Orleans, Louisiana, US
Nationality American
Spouse Jessica Oluseyi
Children 3
Education Stanford University (Ph.D. 1999)
Stanford University (M.S. 1995)
Tougaloo College (B.S. 1991)

Hakeem Muata Oluseyi[4] (born James Edward Plummer, Jr.;[5] March 13, 1967) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, inventor, educator, science communicator, author, actor, veteran, and humanitarian.

Early life and education[]

Oluseyi was born James Edward Plummer, Jr.[4] in New Orleans, Louisiana. After his parents divorced when he was four years old, he and his mother moved to a different state along the southern border of the US every year. He lived in some of the country's toughest neighborhoods including the 9th Ward of New Orleans; Watts, Los Angeles, California; Inglewood, California; South Park, Houston, Texas; and Third Ward, Houston, Texas before settling in rural Mississippi a month before Oluseyi turned 13 years old. He completed middle school and Secondary education in the United States|high school in the East Jasper School District graduating as his high school's valedictorian in 1985. Oluseyi served in the U.S. Navy from 1984 to 1986. He credits the Navy with teaching him algebra.[4]

After leaving the Navy with an honorable discharge due to a skin condition from which he had suffered since he was a child, Oluseyi enrolled in Tougaloo College where he earned Bachelor of Science degrees in physics and mathematics. In 1991, he became a graduate student at Stanford University. He earned M.S. degree in physics in 1995.[4] He changed his name to Hakeem ("wise" in Arabic) Muata ("he who speaks the truth" in Swahili) Oluseyi ("God has done this" in Yoruba) in 1996.[4] Oluseyi earned his Ph.D. degree in physics from Stanford in 1999[4][6] under the mentorship of Arthur B. C. Walker Jr., from whom he learned experimental space research. Under Walker's tutelage, Oluseyi helped to design, build, calibrate, and launch the Multi-Spectral Solar Telescope Array (MSSTA), which pioneered normal incidence extreme ultraviolet and soft x-ray imaging of the Sun's transition region and corona. Oluseyi is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi.

Career[]

From 1999 to 2001 he worked on semiconductor research at Applied Materials. From 2001 to 2004 he was a research fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, working on the Dark Energy Camera and Vera C. Rubin Observatory.[7]

From 2007 to 2019, he was on the faculty of the Florida Institute of Technology in the departments of Physics and Space Sciences. His academic rank was distinguished research professor.[6] From 2016 to 2019. he was stationed at NASA Headquarters in Washington DC where he was the Space Sciences education manager for NASA's Science Mission Directorate via the Intergovernmental Personnel Act Mobility Program.[6][8] Oluseyi was named a Visiting Robinson Professor at George Mason University in 2021, a distinction by which the university recognizes outstanding faculty.[9]

In 2021, he published an autobiography titled: A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars co-authored with Joshua Horwitz.[7]

His best known scientific contributions are research on the transfer of mass and energy through the Sun's atmosphere; the development of space-borne observatories for studying astrophysical plasmas and dark energy; and the development of transformative technologies in ultraviolet optics,[10][11][12][13] detectors,[14][15][16][17] computer chips,[18][19][20][21] and ion propulsion.[22]

In popular culture[]

Oluseyi appears as a commentator and scientific authority on Science Channel television shows including How the Universe Works, Outrageous Acts of Science, Curiosity, NASA's Unexplained Files, Space's Deepest Secrets, and Strip the Cosmos,.[23] He also appeared as a 'bakineering' (baking and engineering) judge on Netflix's Baking Impossible.[24][25] He contributed science articles to the news media, including The Washington Post.[26] He lent his voice and scientific expertise to the award-winning science education video game ExoTrex: A Space Science Adventure Game in collaboration with Dig-It! Games.[27] He co-authored the children's popular science book Discovery Spaceopedia: The Complete Guide to Everything Space.[28]

Family[]

Oluseyi met his wife, Jessica, at Tougaloo College. They have a daughter and a son. Oluseyi has a son from an earlier relationship.[29]

References[]

  1. ↑ Hakeem Oluseyi [hakeemoluseyi]. "Maybe y'all didn't notice that today's my birthday. C'mon! A guy only turns 23 once (each year)!". https://twitter.com/hakeemoluseyi/status/841355890632605697.  Missing or empty |date= (help)
  2. ↑ Jones, Maya A. (2016-10-11). "Astrophysicist and HBCU grad Hakeem Oluseyi is making waves" (in en-US). https://theundefeated.com/features/astrophysicist-and-hbcu-grad-hakeem-oluseyi-is-making-waves/. 
  3. ↑ Oluseyi, Hakeem; Horwitz, Joshua (2021-06-15) (in en). A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars. Random House Publishing Group. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-9848-1910-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=sCb-DwAAQBAJ. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Jones, Maya (October 11, 2016). "Astrophysicist and HBCU grad Hakeem Oluseyi is making waves". https://theundefeated.com/features/astrophysicist-and-hbcu-grad-hakeem-oluseyi-is-making-waves/. 
  5. ↑ Oluseyi, Hakeem (October 5, 2012). "Rise of a gangsta nerd: Fellows Friday with Hakeem Oluseyi". http://blog.ted.com/rise-of-a-gangsta-nerd-fellows-friday-with-hakeem-oluseyi/. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Faculty and Staff Profiles". Florida Institute of Technology. Archived from the original. Error: If you specify |archiveurl=, you must also specify |archivedate=. https://web.archive.org/web/20201101015033/https://www.fit.edu/faculty-profiles/4/hakeem-oluseyi/. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Oluseyi, Hakeem; Horwitz, Joshua (15 June 2021). A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars. Ballantine Books. ISBN 978-1984819093. 
  8. ↑ Hakeem Oluseyi on LinkedIn.
  9. ↑ "George Mason University: Astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi Named Visiting Robinson Professor". August 26, 2021. https://patch.com/virginia/greateralexandria/george-mason-university-astrophysicist-hakeem-oluseyi-named-visiting. 
  10. ↑ Walker, Arthur (February 1, 1994). "Astronomical observations with normal incidence multilayer optics III: selection of multilayer bandpasses". p. 450. Bibcode 1994SPIE.2011..450W. Digital object identifier:10.1117/12.167216. 
  11. ↑ Walker, Arthur (November 11, 1994). "Astronomical observations with normal incidence multilayer optics IV: selection of spectral lines". p. 343. Bibcode 1994SPIE.2279..343W. Digital object identifier:10.1117/12.193153. 
  12. ↑ Kankelborg, Charles (June 20, 1995). "Calibration of multilayer mirrors for the Multi-Spectral Solar Telescope Array II". In Hoover, Richard B; Walker, Jr, Arthur B. C. X-Ray and Extreme Ultraviolet Optics. 2515. 436–444. Digital object identifier:10.1117/12.212609. http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=1003538. Retrieved 24 December 2016. 
  13. ↑ Plummer, James (June 20, 1995). "Design and performance of thin foil XUV filters for the Multi-Spectral Solar Telescope Array II". In Hoover, Richard B; Walker, Jr, Arthur B. C. X-Ray and Extreme Ultraviolet Optics. 2515. 565–575. Digital object identifier:10.1117/12.212623. http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=1003565. Retrieved 24 December 2016. 
  14. ↑ Oluseyi, Hakeem (October 21, 2005). "Advanced broadband imager for EUV and FUV studies with exquisite precision". In Meynart, Roland; Neeck, Steven P; Shimoda, Haruhisa. p. 387. Bibcode 2005SPIE.5978..387O. Digital object identifier:10.1117/12.646707. 
  15. ↑ Nikzad, Shouleh (December 18, 2000). "Ultrastable and uniform EUV and UV detectors". p. 250. Bibcode 2000SPIE.4139..250N. Digital object identifier:10.1117/12.410541. 
  16. ↑ Oluseyi, Hakeem (November 4, 2004). "Characterization and deployment of large-format fully depleted back-illuminated p-channel CCDs for precision astronomy". In Meynart, Roland; Neeck, Steven P; Shimoda, Haruhisa. p. 515. Bibcode 2004SPIE.5570..515O. Digital object identifier:10.1117/12.566976. 
  17. ↑ Oluseyi, Hakeem (June 7, 2004). "LBNL four-side buttable CCD package development". In Blouke, Morley M; Sampat, Nitin; Motta, Ricardo J. p. 87. Bibcode 2004SPIE.5301...87O. Digital object identifier:10.1117/12.531954. 
  18. ↑ Oluseyi, Hakeem (August 5, 2003). "Method and apparatus employing optical emission spectroscopy to detect a fault in process conditions of a semiconductor processing system". http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=4&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=%22Oluseyi,+Hakeem%22.INNM.&OS=IN/%22Oluseyi,+Hakeem%22&RS=IN/%22Oluseyi,+Hakeem%22. 
  19. ↑ Oluseyi, Hakeem (October 14, 2003). "Monitoring of film characteristics during plasma-based semi-conductor processing using optical emission spectroscopy". http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=3&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=%22Oluseyi,+Hakeem%22.INNM.&OS=IN/%22Oluseyi,+Hakeem%22&RS=IN/%22Oluseyi,+Hakeem%22. 
  20. ↑ Oluseyi, Hakeem (August 23, 2005). "High selectivity and residue free process for metal on thin dielectric gate etch application". http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=2&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=%22Oluseyi,+Hakeem%22.INNM.&OS=IN/%22Oluseyi,+Hakeem%22&RS=IN/%22Oluseyi,+Hakeem%22. 
  21. ↑ Oluseyi, Hakeem (September 13, 2005). "System, method and medium for modeling, monitoring and/or controlling plasma based semiconductor manufacturing processes". United States Patent and Trademark Office. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=%22Oluseyi,+Hakeem%22.INNM.&OS=IN/%22Oluseyi,+Hakeem%22&RS=IN/%22Oluseyi,+Hakeem%22. 
  22. ↑ Chesny, David (June 29, 2015). "The Magnetic Reconnection Rocket: Advanced Ion Propulsion Inspired by Solar Particle Acceleration". ISBN 978-0990384014. 
  23. ↑ "Hakeem Oluseyi". Internet Movie Database. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3982652/?ref_=nv_sr_1. 
  24. ↑ "Baking Impossible Judges: Andrew Smyth, Joanne Chang & Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi!". https://blurred-reality.com/baking-impossible-netflix-judges-2021/. 
  25. ↑ "Baking Impossible". Netflix web site. https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81152744. 
  26. ↑ Oluseyi, Hakeem (19 June 2021). "Intelligent life probably exists on distant planets — even if we can’t make contact, astrophysicist says". The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/intelligent-life-probably-exists-on-distant-planets--even-if-we-cant-make-contact-astrophysicist-says/2021/06/18/ee6a5316-cd2d-11eb-8cd2-4e95230cfac2_story.html. Retrieved 20 June 2021. 
  27. ↑ "Ready for a Scientific Space Adventure?". https://dig-itgames.com/portfolio/exotrex-game-science-space-grade8/. 
  28. ↑ Discovery Spaceopedia: The Complete Guide to Everything Space. Discovery Channel. 13 October 2015. ISBN 978-1618934079. 
  29. ↑ Oluseyi, Hakeem (2021). A quantum life : my unlikely journey from the street to the stars. New York: Ballantine Books. pp. 202, 279, 343. ISBN 978-1-9848-1910-9. OCLC 1256670197. 
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