Temiloluwa Prioleau
Nigerian computer scientist
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Temiloluwa O. Prioleau is a Nigerian computer scientist, assistant professor of computer science at Emory University. In January 2019, she became the first black woman tenure-track faculty member in computer science at an Ivy League university when she joined Dartmouth College as an assistant professor.[1]
Temiloluwa Prioleau | |
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| Citizenship | Nigeria |
| Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Application of data science to healthcare and human sensing |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | |
| Workplaces | Rice University,Dartmouth College, Emory University |
| Website | https://www.t-prioleau.com/ |
Early life and education
Prioleau's father was an electrical engineer. She grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, attending a local primary school and later boarding school in Nigeria. She moved to the United States when she was in 11th grade, finishing high school in Texas.[1] She gained a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2010 before completing a Masters and then PhD at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2016.[2]Prioleau was a postdoctoral fellow at Rice University, after which she became an assistant professor of computer science at Dartmouth College, starting in January 2019.[2]
Career
Prioleau founded and co-directed the Augmented Health Lab at Dartmouth College,[3] and is a faculty affiliate of The Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH).[4] She left Dartmouth to join Emory University in July 2025.[5]Her research work is on the application of data science to human sensing and healthcare.[6] Prioleau has been recognized for her research on harnessing data from wearable medical devices to understand and improve diabetes.[7][8][9][10]