Published on Show Me Mizzou April 24, 2025
Story by Jack Wax, BS Ed ’73, MS ’76, MA ’87
What can a Mizzou engineering student passionate about revolutionizing health care achieve during his doctoral studies? For Abdulmateen Adebiyi, the answer is a growing list of accolades and breakthroughs. The fourth-year computer science PhD student has earned the respect of his peers and professors, co-authored multiple studies in top-tier journals, and clinched the prestigious Outstanding Achievement Award from Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the international honor society for computing disciplines.
Working under Associate Professor Praveen Rao in the Scalable Data Science Lab, Adebiyi explores engineering solutions to medical challenges. “I enjoy collaborating with primary care physicians, nurse practitioners and oncologists,” he says.
This partnership applies machine learning via deep learning models to diagnosing skin lesions, and the results are promising. Their research shows that combining images with textual descriptions of lesions produces more accurate diagnoses than images alone. Adebiyi hopes the work will help improve health care access and outcomes for patients in rural areas.
He credits much of his success to his mentors. “In addition to supporting my research and studies, my advisor and committee members take an interest in my well-being and help me adjust to American culture,” says Adebiyi, who was raised in Nigeria and has been at Mizzou since 2021.
As the engineer looks ahead to completing his PhD within the next year, Adebiyi sees a bright future. “I’ll be able to walk into a research lab anywhere in the world and contribute to solutions,” he says.
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