Abdul–Aziz Yakubu

Abdul-Aziz Yakubu (4 Afrilu 1958 - Agusta 2022) masanin ilimin lissafi ne. Yakubu Farfesa ne a Jami’ar Howard sama da shekaru 20 kuma ya yi shugabancin sashen lissafi daga 2004 zuwa 2014.

Abdul–Aziz Yakubu
Rayuwa
Haihuwa	Accra,
Mutuwa	ga Augusta, 2022
Karatu
Makaranta	North Carolina State University (en)
Thesis director	John Franke (en)
Dalibin daktanci	Shurron Mitchell Farmer (en) Nourridine Siewe (en)
Sana'a
Sana'a	masanin lissafi
Employers	Howard University (en)

Rayuwar farko da ilimi

An haifi Abdul-Aziz Yakubu a ranar 4 ga Afrilu 1958 a Accra, babban birnin Ghana . Ya halarci Accra Academy don ilimin sakandare. Yakubu ya fara sha’awar lissafi ne a lokacin da yake karatu a Jami’ar Ghana – Legon, inda ya yi digirinsa na BS a fannin lissafi da na’ura mai kwakwalwa a shekarar 1982. A shekarar 1985, Yakubu ya sami digirinsa na biyu a fannin lissafi a Jami'ar Toledo da ke Ohio. Kafin ya ci gaba da zuwa Jami'ar Howard, ya halarci Jami'ar Jihar North Carolina kuma ya sami digirinsa na digiri a fannin lissafi a 1990. Don Ph.D., ya rubuta takardar karatunsa, "Tsarin gasa na lokaci" a ƙarƙashin shawarar John Franke.

Sana`a

Farkon binciken Yakubu ya kasance a Jami'ar Jihar North Carolina, kuma matsayinsa na farko ya kasance a Jami'ar Howard, jami'ar binciken baƙar fata ta tarihi (HBCU) a Washington, DC . Yayin da yake a Howard ya shafe shekara guda a matsayin baƙo na dogon lokaci ta hanyar shiga cikin "Mathematics in Biology" a Jami'ar Minnesota . Shirin a Jami'ar Minnesota ya ba shi damar yin haɗin gwiwa don ci gaba da gudummawa mai kyau ga duniya, musamman ma bincikensa game da cututtuka masu yaduwa a Afirka. Shekaru biyu bayan ziyarar da ya yi na dogon lokaci, ya ɗauki hutun shekaru biyu daga Jami'ar Howard a 2002 don ziyartar Sashen Kididdigar Kididdigar da Halittu a Jami'ar Cornell, inda ya haɗu tare da Carlos Castillo-Chavez .

Bayan kwarewarsa ta Cornell, ya koma Jami'ar Howard don mai da hankali kan ilmin lissafi. Yakubu ya sami nasarar haɗin gwiwa a cikin aikin masana kan kifin da ake amfani da su tare da masana kimiyya a Cibiyar Kimiyyar Kifi ta Arewa maso Gabas na Woods Hole, Massachusetts . Ya yi aiki a kan ayyukan da suka bincikar halittu da cututtuka masu yaduwa tare da Avner Friedman na ɗaliban Cibiyar Ilimin Kimiyyar Kimiyyar Kimiyya a Jami'ar Jihar Ohio da dalibansa da suka kammala digiri a Jami'ar Howard. Binciken da ya yi kan ilmin lissafi ya taimaka masa ya haɗu da ɗalibai da masu bincike a duniya. Yakubu ya halarci tare da gabatar da gudunmawarsa a tarukan bincike da bita da dama a Turai da Asiya. Gidauniyar Kimiyya ta Kasa ta tallafawa shirin DIMACS-MBI na Afirka, wanda Avner Friedmann, Marty Golubitsky, Fred Roberts ya jagoranta da kuma aikin Masamu na NSF na Overton Jenda . Ya ba shi damar ba da laccoci da yawa a Kamaru, Ghana, Maroko, Afirka ta Kudu, Uganda, da Zambia . Yakubu ya tafi hutun sabbatical zuwa MBI. DIMACS a Piscataway, New Jersey, MBI a Columbus, Ohio, NIMBioS a Knoxville, Tennessee, da makamantansu cibiyoyin ilmin halitta.

Yakubu ya wallafa bincikensa a wasu mujallu na ilimi kamar Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Journal of Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Biosciences, SIAM da Journal of Applied Mathematics. Ya kasance memba kuma ya rike matsayin jagoranci a kungiyoyin ƙwararrun lissafin lissafi, gami da Society for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Bioscience Institute of the Ohio State and DIMACS na Jami'ar Rutgers . Daga 2007 zuwa 2016, ya yi aiki a matsayin Shugaban Kwamitin Wayar da Kai ta Duniya na Society for Mathematical Biology.

Yakubu ya rasu a ranar 13 ko 14 ga Agusta, 2022. Tun daga watan Nuwamba 2022, editoci na Journal of Biological Dynamics suna aiki kan wani batu na musamman da za a buga don tunawa da Yakubu. Buga na musamman zai tabo batutuwan da aka zaburar da su ko kuma suka shafi aikin Yakubu a fannin lissafi da ilmin halitta.