# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/deji-akinwande
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:11:43.744Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/deji-akinwande"
name: "Deji Akinwande"
slug: "deji-akinwande"
description: "Deji Akinwande is a Nigerian-American professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with courtesy affiliation with Materials Science, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2016 from Barack Obama. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the African Academy of Sciences, the Materials Research Society (MRS), and the IEEE."
tagline: "Scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Deji_Akinwande_with_Barack_Obama.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.85
  momentum:             1.216216216216216
  historical:           5.944385333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://nano.mer.utexas.edu/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deji_Akinwande"
    title: "Deji Akinwande"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deji_Akinwande"
    title: "Deji Akinwande"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deji_Akinwande"
    title: "Deji Akinwande"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deji_Akinwande"
    title: "Deji Akinwande"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pcm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deji_Akinwande"
    title: "Deji Akinwande"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deji_Akinwande"
    title: "Deji Akinwande"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56661241"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump