WPI names Winston Oluwole Soboyejo provost and SVP
Winston Oluwole Soboyejo, WPI interin president
Winston Oluwole Soboyejo has been named Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s provost after serving in the role in an interim position since September 2018.
Soboyejo first began working at WPI in September 2016 overseeing the college’s school of engineering as dean, stepping down from that role to serve in the interim provost position. Prior to his time at WPI, Soboyejo worked at Princeton University as a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.
Soboyejo grew up in western Nigeria. He earned a bachelor's degree in engineering at Kings College in London and a Ph.D. in materials science and metallurgy from the University of Cambridge before coming to the United States in 1988 to accept a position as a research scientist at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis, where he was an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Missouri.
He also held a research position at the Edison Welding Institute in Columbus, Ohio, as well as faculty positions at The Ohio State University and MIT, before joining the Princeton faculty in 1999.
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