Dr. Obafemi-Ajayi is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Missouri State University (MSU) in the Engineering Program, a joint program with Missouri S&T. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the Applied Computational Intelligence Lab at S&T May 2016, working on clustering and genomic data analysis related to Autism. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology. Her research interests are machine learning, bioinformatics, and data mining.