About Me

I am a PhD student in the department of computer science at Old Dominion University, Virginia. My name is Lawrence Obiuwevwi, and I am from Nigeria. I had my bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) in Nigeria. My bachelor's thesis was on "design and implementation of a wireless electrical doorbell." I proceeded to publish its journal version. After completing my bachelors, I did an engineering fellowship with Engineering for Change (E4C), an Autodesk Foundation sponsored program for young engineers, where I worked with a Spain-based company, Solaris Offgrid, on building a smart reusable battery module to help power rural homes across the globe. The technology aims to revolutionize the use of rechargeable battery modules through hardware design and programmings.

My love for computer science is fueled by the ease with which we can build some wonderful products from readily available computing systems like computers, software, and data. I love the idea of interacting with computers, the human-computer understanding of events and storytelling, the modeling and simulation of present and past events, and being able to predict future occurrences for better preparations for and against such events. Over the last few years, I have developed my computer and programming skills and have built numerous websites and webpages. Chief among them is the Generative CAD Services website, generativecad.com. Having a background in building electrical and electronics hardware products gives me a holistic understanding of how computer hardware works, and being a computer scientist will enable me to have expertise in researching, analyzing, building, and supervising complete technological product development from start to finish and use.

I started working with Dr. Sampath Jayarathna, Dr. Krzysztof Rechowicz. in the spring of 2024 at Nirds Lab, WS-DL Research Group ODU, and Storymodelers Lab in the Virginia Institute of Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC).