Dr.  Bolanle Ojokoh is currently an Associate Professor in the department of Information Systems of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. She was a visiting Ph.D and Postdoctoral researcher in the School of Electronic Engineering & Computer Science Peking University, Beijing, China in 2009 and 2010.    She is a member  of   Organization of Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD), Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN) and Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).  She has mentored up to fifteen Masters theses to completion and is currently supervising some Masters and Ph.D  students.  Her current research interests include Question Answering, Information Retrieval, Filtering and Extraction, Recommender Systems, and Gender issues in Science and Information Technology.  She has published over sixty publications in reputable journals and conferences.  She was awarded TWAS Young Affiliate in July 2013 and is currently and an Executive Board Member of the TWAS Young Affiliate Network (TYAN). She was the Scientific Chair for the 2nd International OWSD Conference held in FUTA, Nigeria in November, 2015. She was also a member of the Program Committee of the Joint Conference of Digital Libraries held in Newark, New Jersey, USA in 2016 and also in 2017. She was the Organizing Chair of the 4th TYAN International Thematic Workshop and 1st African Symposium on Big Data, Analytics and Machine Intelligence held in Akure in June, 2019.