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Ghanaian professor of engineering (born 1964)

Kwabena Adu Boahen (born 22 September 1964) is a Ghanaian-born Professor of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.^[1] He previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania.

Education and early life

Kwabena Boahen was born on 22 September 1964, in Accra, Ghana.^[2] He attended secondary school at Mfantsipim School in Cape Coast, Ghana, and at the Presbyterian Boys' Senior High School in Accra.

While at Mfantsipim, he invented the corn-planting machine that won the national science competition and graduated as the valedictorian of the Class of 1981.

He received his B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering in 1989 from Johns Hopkins University and his PhD in computation and neural systems in 1997 from the California Institute of Technology, where he was advised by Carver Mead.

For his PhD thesis, Boahen designed and fabricated a silicon chip emulating the functi