Three Brothers. Three Ph.D.s 

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Roughly 2% of the U.S. population holds a doctoral degree, according to the online database World Population Review. In the Eisape family, the percentage is much, much higher. Adebayo Eisape, Ph.D. ’12, Tiwalayo Eisape ’15 and Seun Eisape ’20 have either completed a Ph.D. or are earning doctoral degrees from top universities in a range of STEM fields.  

In April, Adebayo defended his Ph.D. thesis, “Polymer-Based Pressure Transduction for the Implementation of Autonomous Self-Powered and Extended-Runtime Sensing Platforms,” at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering. He earned a B.S. in computer engineering and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins in 2016 and 2018, respectively. His research is focused on electrostatics, the study of stationary electric charges or fields. 

As a doctoral student, Adebayo was recruited for NASA’s Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) team to develop EZIE-magnetometer kits for mass distribution. The kits will allow students to build their own science-quality magnetometers and participate in NASA’s satellite system, which will image the magnetic fingerprint of the electric currents that flow in the upper atmosphere and between Earth and the surrounding space. Adebayo will begin work at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in August. 

Tiwalayo was a Ronald E. McNair Scholar at Boston College. He graduated in 2019 with a bachelor’s degree in computer science. His research and academic interests are focused on the neurological underpinnings of cognition and its application on artificial intelligence. Tiwalayo is studying for a Ph.D. in neuroscience at MIT and expects to graduate in 2025.  

Seun graduated from Haverford College in 2024 with a bachelor’s degree in computer science. An undergraduate researcher and IAC Fellow, he will begin the Ph.D. program in computer science at University of California, Berkeley in the fall. 

 

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