Stephen Odaibo
Stephen Gbejule Odaibo (born c. 1980 in Ilorin, Nigeria) was the co-founder and chief technology officer of Analytical AI.
Odaibo, the son of Stephen Kirtsiner and Marie Boyowa Odaibo, grew up in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara in western Nigeria, and attended primary school and secondary school there. He and his older brother David came to Birmingham together in 1998 to study at UAB.
Odaibo earned his bachelor of science in mathematics in 2001 and a master's in 2002, while also taking pre-med classes. He completed another master's of science in computer science at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He focused on neurology and neurochemistry while earning his M.D. in 2010 at the Duke University School of Medicine, having studied with Nobel Prize laureates Robert Lefkowitz and Paul Modrich. He went on to complete fellowships in ophthalmology at Howard University in Washington D.C. and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Odaibo began his professional career as a retina specialist at the Medical Associates Clinic in Dubuque Iowa while also pursuing his own startup company, Quantum Lucid Research Laboratories. He worked with his brother David to develop artificial intelligence tools to analyze retinal scans. The first product of that research is a diagnostic tool for detecting diabetic retinopathy.
Odaibo and his wife, Lisa, a pediatrician, reside in Houston Texas. They have two children.
Publications
- Odaibo, Stephen G. (2012) Quantum Mechanics and the MRI Machine Symmetry Seed Books ISBN 9780615708522
- Odaibo, Stephen G. (2016) The Form of Finite Groups: A Course on Finite Group Theory Symmetry Seed Books ISBN 9780997116304
References
- Windsor, Matt (February 15, 2023) "Stephen Odaibo, M.D.: The Meaning of Success." UAB News / The Birmingham Times