Hakeem Oluseyi received his PhD from Stanford University in physics and is the recipient of multiple fellowships and appointments, including MIT Martin Luther King, Jr. visiting scholar at MIT. Oluseyi’s memoir titled “A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars” was released last year.

Oluseyi is an astrophysicist, author, STEM educator, inventor, TV personality, and science communicator. He is currently the President of the National Society of Black Physicists and served as the Space Science Education Lead for NASA’s Space Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C. where he provided strategic leadership and management for investments in science.