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UDEiGWE

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UDEiGWE
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BornLawrence Udeigwe
🏳️ NationalityNigerian, American
💼 Occupation
Academician, Musician

Lawrence Udeigwe, also known by his stage name UDEiGWE (formerly Lorens Chuno),[1] is a Nigerian-American Professor of Mathematics at Manhattan University and a musician.[2][3][4][5]

Education

Udeigwe was born in Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria. He had his primary school at St. Theresa’s Primary School in Wurukum Makurdi and Secondary at Mt St Gabriel’s Secondary School Makurdi.[6][7][8][9] He has double Bachelor's degrees, in Mathematics and Computer Science from Duquesne University.[10][11] He earned his master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh in 2008 and his PhD from the same institution in 2014.[12][13][14]

Career

Udeigwe is a Research Affiliate, Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[15][16][17] He is also the founder of LCM Cube, an indie label, and hosts "Doing Jazz," a Podcast where he chats about music and life.[18][19]

His first album, “Highlife, Soul, & Ecstasy” in December 2007 was among the top five hits on Rhythm 93.7 FM Lagos and Raypower FM.[20]

Udeigwe has worked with Skales. His song 'Do' attracted over 2 million Plays on Social media recording close to 500,000 streams online, and was on top 10 chart on Raypower Fm Lagos, Eko FM Lagos, Fresh Fm Ibadan, Beat Fm and Wazobia FM. The visuals to the song 'Do' was premiered on MtvBase, Soundcity TV and HipTV.[1]

In 2009, Udeigwe was appointed as a lecturer at Penn State Fayette.[12] He was awarded a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Associate Professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2020, Udeigwe was awarded a National Science Foundation Research Grant, and in 2021, he was awarded a Department of Defense research grant from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM).[21][22]

He was listed among Nigerian EPs that received the most Streams and trended in Audiomack in 2018 to 2022.[23]

In 2023, He was awarded Yessiey Awards [24] [25] and Apple Music named Udeigwe as one of Nigeria's rising artists to watch.[4]

Books and Journals

  • M.E. Bohling, L.C. Udeigwe. "The Spiking Neuron", Foundations for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics, Springer, in press
  • L.C. Udeigwe, P.W. Munro, G. Bard Ermentrout. "Emergent Dynamical Properties of the BCM Learning Rule." Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience. Vol 7:2, (2017), DOI: 10.1186/s13408-017-0044-6[26]
  • L.C. Udeigwe and G.B. Ermentrout. "Waves and patterns on regular graphs." SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems Vol. 14(2), 1102-1129, 2015. DOI: 10.1137/140969488 [27]
  • D.B. Smith, L. C. Udeigwe, and J. Rubin. Physical interactions between D1 and NMDA receptors as a possible inhibitory mechanism to avoid excessive NMDA currents. BMC Neuroscience Vol. 8 (2), 2007
  • Interfacing Music and Mathematics: A Case for More Engagement[28]
  • An Analysis of the Cluster-Detecting Property of the BCM Neuron[29][30][31]

Discography

Albums

  • Highlife, Soul and Ecstasy, 2008
  • Egwu Oma (EP), 2012[8]
  • Reflection (EP), 2012
  • My House, 2013'[32]
  • Naija Rhythm Affair, NYC, 2016[33]
  • Rhythm Sustained, 2018[34][35]

Singles

Professional membership

He became a Fellow of the Advance HE, formerly known as the Higher Education Academy, in 2021.[20] He is also a Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), Los Angeles, CA. He is a member of Sigma Xi, Organization for Computational Neuroscience, Mathematical Association of America a Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.[13][2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Do By Lawrence Udeigwe Sweeps Nigeria Off Its Feet". dailytimesng.com. 18 November 2023.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Nigerian scholar Appointed Professor Of Mathematics At Manhattan University". blueprint.ng. 12 March 2024.
  3. ↑ "My Nigeria Music Udeigwe". Turntablecharts.com.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Lawrence Udeigwe The Math Professor Redefining Jazz". guardian.ng. 14 May 2024.
  5. ↑ "Naija Rhythm Affair Nyc Lorens Chuno Self Produced Review By James Nadal". allaboutjazz.com. 12 July 2016.
  6. ↑ "i have Become All I Wanted To Be As A Child Musician Mathematician Udeigwe". Pmnewsnigeria.com.
  7. ↑ "Udeigwe Drives Purpose With New Single". thisdaylive.com. 29 April 2023.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "10 interesting facts about nigerian american artist lawrence udeigwe". guardian.ng. 2024-02-03.
  9. ↑ "My Plan To Take Over Nigeria Music Udeigwe". vanguardngr.com. 2023-04-13.
  10. ↑ "Black history honorees". mathematicallygiftedandblack.com. 2024-05-13.
  11. ↑ "Directory". bcs.mit.edu. 2024-05-17.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Penn state fayette". psu.edu. 2009-07-27.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Lawrence Udeigwe". manhattan.edu.
  14. ↑ "Udeigwe wins BCS award for excellence". pldailytimesng.com. 2023-12-16.
  15. ↑ "Udeigwe The Unconventional Artiste Fusing Two Extremes". culturecustodian.com. 24 April 2024.
  16. ↑ "Professor Lawrence Udeigwe Doubles As Jazz Musician". mcquad.org. 6 February 2024.
  17. ↑ "Lawrence Udeigwe Uses Elegant Math Understand Complex Systems Brain". news.mit.edu. 22 March 2022.
  18. ↑ "Doing Jazz Podcast Pushing New Music Culture Udeigwe". thesun.ng. 8 June 2025.
  19. ↑ "I Tackle Contemporary Issues In My Songs Udeigwe". punchng.com. 2023-04-13.
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 "Lawrence Udeigwe: From Chart-Topping Success to Scholarly Excellence". pmnewsnigeria.com.
  21. ↑ "Visiting professor". manhattan.edu. 18 August 2021.
  22. ↑ "MIT Nigerians Make List Of Visiting Professors And Scholars". engineersforum.com.ng. 22 September 2021.
  23. ↑ "Asake Burna Boy lawrence Udeigwe Simi Others Tops audiomack trend". thenationonlineng.net. October 2022.
  24. ↑ "Celebrating Innovators And Change Makers". yessiey.com. 23 October 2023.
  25. ↑ Acho, Affa (15 October 2023). "Music Artist Udeigwe Gets Artist Of The Year Award". leadership.ng.
  26. ↑ Udeigwe, L. C.; Munro, P. W.; Ermentrout, G. B. (2017). "Lawrence Neuroscience Journal". Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience. 7 (1): 2. doi:10.1186/s13408-017-0044-6. PMC 5318375. PMID 28220467.
  27. ↑ "Lawrence waves and pattern Journal". epubs.siam.org. doi:10.1137/140969488.
  28. ↑ "Lawrence Journal" (PDF). ams.org.
  29. ↑ "Lawrence analysis journal". doi:10.1142/S2972370124500028.
  30. ↑ Udeigwe, Lawrence (January 2024). "Analysis". epubs.siam.org.
  31. ↑ "Publications". mydigitalpublication.com.
  32. ↑ "Meet Lawrence Udeigwe, The Math Wiz With Music in His Bones". pulse.ng.
  33. ↑ "Lawrence Udeigwe - It's Difficult To Describe Why i do music". thisdaylive.com. 15 April 2023.
  34. ↑ "Udeigwe". allaboutjazz.com. 13 January 2019.
  35. ↑ "Udeigwe Sustain album". open.spotify.com.
  36. ↑ "Lawrence Udeigwe New Singles falling". music.apple.com.
  37. ↑ "Lawrence Udeigwe New Single". open.spotify.com.
  38. ↑ "Us Based Nigerian Maths Professor Releases New Single". von.gov.ng. 15 April 2023.


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