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Basics
| Name | Adebayo Braimah |
| Label | PhD Student in Computer Science |
| adbraimah@cs.stonybrook.edu | |
| Url | https://adebayobraimah.github.io/ |
| Summary | Ph.D. student in computer science at Stony Brook University researching autonomous and cooperative multi-agent systems and multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). |
Work
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2026.06 - 2026.08 Arlington, Virginia
Graduate Research Intern
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Information and Networks Program Office
Internship through the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) AFRL Scholars Program at AFOSR.
- Worked alongside two additional Ph.D. students and AFOSR point of contact Leslie Blaha, Ph.D.
- Project: Determining Research Capacity of a Nation.
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2025.06 - 2025.08 Rome, New York
Graduate Research Intern
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Information Directorate
Internship via the NDSEG fellowship program at AFRL. Worked alongside Assoc. Prof. Garrett Katz, PhD (Syracuse University) and AFRL point of contact Simon Khan, PhD.
- Explainable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) for cooperative tasks of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
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2024.06 - 2024.08 Rome, New York
Graduate Research Intern
Griffiss Institute, AFRL Information Directorate
Internship via the SFFP (Summer Faculty Fellowship Program) at AFRL. Worked alongside Asst. Prof. Yifan Sun, PhD and AFRL point of contact Walter Bennette, PhD.
- Explainability of machine learning models using loss landscape analysis.
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2023.01 - 2023.05 Stony Brook, New York
Graduate Research Assistant
Stony Brook University
Research in the Department of Computer Science with Yifan Sun.
- Profiled eigenspectrum decomposition methods for very large matrices.
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2018.06 - 2022.07 Cincinnati, Ohio
Research Software Engineer (Research Assistant III)
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Imaging Research Center, Department of Radiology. Supervised by Jonathan Dudley.
- Analyzed brain and abdominal MR images and organized imaging data for studies.
- Studied functional and structural connectivity in neonates with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy and neonatal abstinence syndrome.
- Analyzed functional connectivity in rats to assess acute response to ketamine.
- Studied functional connectivity in school-aged children with ADHD to assess sluggish cognitive tempo.
- Analyzed structural connectivity in children to assess the effects of air pollution exposure.
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2017.08 - 2018.05 Los Angeles, California
Volunteer Graduate Research Assistant
University of Southern California, Laboratory of Neuroimaging (LONI)
Neuroimaging research for the EpiBioS4Rx project with Dominique Duncan.
- Analyzed pre-seizure EEG data from patients with epilepsy and rats using unsupervised diffusion component analysis.
- Performed single- and multi-subject MRI analyses of patients with epilepsy and rats.
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2016.06 - 2017.07 Lawrence, Kansas
Volunteer Undergraduate Research Assistant
University of Kansas, Department of Molecular Biosciences
Computational research with Eric Deeds and Abhishek Mallela.
- Simulated self-assembly of the Rhodococcus 20S proteasome (PDB: 1Q5R).
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2015.10 - 2017.07 Lawrence, Kansas
Mutual Fund/Data Processing Associate
DST/Boston Financial Data Services
Organized and processed categorical financial data for mutual fund investments.
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2013.10 - 2016.07 Lawrence, Kansas
Undergraduate Research Assistant
University of Kansas, Department of Chemistry
Research with Carey K. Johnson and Will Newhart.
- Used spectropolarimetry to investigate fluorescent dye-protein interactions with circularly polarized light.
- Wrote laboratory protocols.
Education
Awards
- 2025.03
SUNY GREAT Award
State University of New York (SUNY)
SUNY Graduate Research Empowering and Accelerating Talent (GREAT) Award. Provided to SUNY students who have been awarded prestigious national fellowships.
- 2024.08
NDSEG Fellowship
Department of Defense
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, August 2024 to May 2027. Covers tuition, stipend, and student fees through the Department of Defense.
- 2022.08
Turner Fellowship
Stony Brook University
Dr. W. Burghardt Turner Fellowship, August 2022 to May 2027. Awarded to incoming doctoral students from historically underrepresented groups.
Skills
| Proficient | |
| Python | |
| Bash/shell scripting | |
| MATLAB | |
| R and RStudio | |
| LaTeX |
| Familiar | |
| C/C++ |
Interests
| Research interests | |
| Autonomous and cooperative multi-agent systems | |
| Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) |
Volunteer
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2020.11 - 2021.11 -
2020.04 - 2022.08 -
2015.02 - 2018.06