Dr. Chidozie (Williams) Chukwu earned his PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Johannesburg in 2021. He then held postdoctoral positions at Universitas Airlangga in Indonesia in 2021 and at the University of California, San Diego, in 2022. Following these, he served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University for two years before joining DePaul University as a Professional Lecturer in 2024. Dr. Chukwu's research interests span Mathematical Biology, Optimal Control, Data Analytics, Epidemiology, and Applied Machine Learning in Health.