OLUWATOSIN OLUWADARE
Oluwatosin Oluwadare
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
oluwatosin.oluwadare@unt.edu | Office: UNT Discovery Park – F209
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas (UNT). Prior to joining UNT in 2025, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Bachelor of Innovation program at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS), where I served from 2019 to 2025. During my time at UCCS, I also held a secondary faculty appointment in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine | Anschutz Medical Campus. I was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at UCCS in 2025 before transitioning to UNT.
My research centers on Artificial Intelligence in Biology, where I develop and apply advanced AI methods to address fundamental challenges in genomics and computational biology. I focus on leveraging machine learning and deep learning to model complex biological systems and extract meaningful insights from high-dimensional biomedical data. Specific research interests are in the following areas: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology; Machine learning & Data Mining; Deep Learning & Reinforcement Learning.
I developed a software app, called EyeCYou, that uses AI to provide the facial description of a person to the visually impaired. Find details here: EyeCYou for the visually impaired
Connect with me here: Google Scholar, ResearchGate, LinkedIn, PubMed, Semantic scholar
AWARDS & GRANTS
- $1 Million Dollar Club Inductee, UCCS, 2024
- Distinguished Alumnus Award, Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Nigeria, 2024.
- Outstanding Pre-Tenure Researcher of the Year Award, UCCS College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (EAS) , 2023-2024.
- UCCS CRCW Seed Grant Award, 2024 to 2025 (Role: Co-PI)
- NSF Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*) Award, 2024 to 2026 (Role: Co-PI)
- NIH R35 NIGMS Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA), 2023 to 2028 (Role: Sole PI) [ News: UCCS COMMUNIQUE ]
- VICEROY Virtual Institute Award. Funded by Griffiss Institute, 2023 to 2025 (Role: Co-PI) [ News: UCCS COMMUNIQUE ]
- NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Early Career Grant Award, 2022 to 2025 (Role: Sole PI)
- NSF REU Site: Deep Learning: Theory, Concepts, and Applications, 2021 to 2024 (Role: Co-PI/Senior Personnel )
- UCCS CRCW Seed Grant Award, 2020 to 2022 (Role: Sole PI)
EDUCATION
Ph.D in Computer Science, University of Missouri,Columbia, Missouri 2019 – Advised by Prof. Jianlin Cheng
M.Sc in Computer and Information Science, University of Texas at Arlington,Texas, 2015 – Advised by Prof. Manfred Huber
B.Tech in Computer Science, Federal University of Technology,Akure, Nigeria, 2012.
JOURNAL EDITOR
- Frontier in Bioinformatics (Topic Editor (2022-2023), Research Topic: Algorithms and Tools for Analyzing Spatial Genome Organization)
- BMC Bioinformatics (Guest Editor (2024 – 2025 ). BMC Bioinformatics Collection on 3D genomics)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Olowofila, S, and Oluwadare, O. (2025). DiCARN-DNase: Enhancing Cell-to-Cell Hi-C Resolution Using Dilated Cascading ResNet with Self-Attention and DNase-seq Chromatin Accessibility Data. Bioinformatics (Oxford,England). [@Bioinformatics]
- Pinchuk, D., Chowdhury, H. M. A. M., Pandeya, A., & Oluwadare, O. (2025). HiCForecast: Dynamic Network Optical Flow Estimation Algorithm for Spatiotemporal Hi-C Data Forecasting. Bioinformatics (Oxford,England). [@ Bioinformatics]
- Chowdhury, H. M. A. M., Boult, T., & Oluwadare, O. (2024). Comparative study on chromatin loop callers using Hi-C data reveals their effectiveness. BMC Bioinformatics 25, 123 (2024). [@BMC Bioinformatics]
- Akpokiro, V., Chowdhury, H. M. A., Olowofila, S., Nusrat, R., & Oluwadare, O. (2023). CNNSplice: Robust Models for Splice Site Prediction Using Convolutional Neural Networks. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. ISSN 2001-0370, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2023.05.031. [@ Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal]
- Hovenga, V., Kalita, J., & Oluwadare, O. (2023). HiC-GNN: A Generalizable Model for 3D Chromosome Reconstruction Using Graph Convolutional Neural Networks. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2023 Jan 1;21:812-36. [@ Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal.][Funding: NSF]
- Hicks, P., & Oluwadare, O. (2022). HiCARN:Resolution Enhancement of Hi-C Data Using Cascading Residual Network. Bioinformatics. (Oxford, England) [@ Bioinformatics] [@ Won 2nd Place at 2022 President’s Academic Showcase at Concordia University Irvine]
- Trieu, T.*, Oluwadare, O.*, Wopata, J., & Cheng, J. (2018). GenomeFlow: A Comprehensive Graphical Tool for Modeling and Analyzing 3D Genome Structure. Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) (* Co-first author) [@ Bioinformatics]
TEACHING
Courses in Computer Science and Bachelor of Innovation Program at UCCS:
- CS 4850/5850 – Bioinformatics & Computational Biology [Fall 2020, Spring 2023 (scheduled), Spring 2024]
- ENTP 1000 – Introduction to Entrepreneurship [Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024]
- CS 4435/5435 – Data Mining [Spring 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024 ]
- CS 2020 – Introduction to Statistics for Data Analytics [Spring 2023, Spring 2024 ]
- CS 1120 – Computational Thinking with Beginning Programming [Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Fall 2023]
- INOV 1010 – The Innovation Process [Fall 2023]
OFFICE NO:
Discovery Park – F209
EMAIL:
oluwatosin.oluwadare [at] unt [dot] edu
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