BVL Graduates new PhD Student

We are proud to share that one of our PhD students, Osamudiamhen Oiwoh, has successfully defended her doctoral thesis at the College of Postgraduate Studies, University of Benin! Her research focused on intelligent modelling, meta-heuristic optimization and feature evaluation of a heterogeneously catalyzed biodiesel production process from a formulated ternary oil feedstock, and marks a significant milestone in our work at the Bioresources Valorization Laboratory. 

In this project, she: 

• Developed a novel catalyst from bovine horn, papaya waste, and anthill mud
• Achieved a 99.82% biodiesel yield under optimized conditions
• Applied advanced machine learning (XGB, SVM, ANN, ELM, RF and KRR) and bio-inspired optimization algorithms (MRFO, GA, SCSO)
• Conducted intelligent feature evaluation using SHAP and Global Sensitivity Analysis

Her work advances sustainable biodiesel synthesis using non-edible feedstocks and blends catalyst design with computational intelligence, exactly the kind of interdisciplinary innovation we champion at #BVL. 

Congratulations, Dr. Osamudiamhen! Your journey and dedication are an inspiration. 

Here’s to more science that solves real-world problems.

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