Research Interests: hybrid modeling, cardiovascular diseases, diseases modeling, water and wastewater treatment.

Prediction of cardiac fibrosis and the subsequent heart failure has been very challenging for clinicians. Currently, I am exploring the prospect of using mechanistic models and machine learning to predict heart failure patients. Below is the detail of my research and industrial experience:

Research Experience

Wastewater treatment: Here, I researched using a new membrane system for treating poultry processing wastewater. The poultry processing industry is one of the largest consumers of water. We explored the possibility of using a stainless-steel membrane system to treat the wastewater as a potential system to minimize (perhaps eliminate) the biofouling of the membrane. The result was compared with other membranes, and it shows that the membrane has an excellent potential for treating wastewater with organic fouling.

Integrated model for cardiac fibrosis and heart failure: My research involves developing mechanistic and machine learning models to predict heart failure. We are exploring the idea of combining our mechanistic model with machine learning. Data from patients’ blood samples are used as input for the model. The result showed that combined machine learning performed better than ordinary neural networks.

Industrial experience

Process Engineer at Water Treatment Unit: I had the privilege of working as a process engineer at the water treatment unit of a refinery and fertilizer plant in Nigeria. In this work, I worked as a field engineer and DCS officer. The work includes monitoring the processing units, supervising the activities of contractors, preparation and monitoring the dosing chemical tanks.

Executive Trainee at Fluid Catalytic Cracking Operation: I spent two months at Engineer India Limited (EIL) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) in India for five months. At EIL, I did a holistic study of the design and operation of petroleum refineries. The work includes the crude distillation unit, fluid catalytic cracking, sulfur recovery unit, hydrocracking unit, and their subunits. Upon completing my training at EIL, I spent three months at BPCL, Mumbai, where I was posted to the fluid catalytic cracking unit and worked as both field and panel operator.

PUBLICATION

1) Saubana Olorunsola Dada, Chidambaram Thamariselvan, Mahmood Jebur, Sumith Ranil Wickramasinghe.

“Innovative Approaches to Poultry Processing Wastewater Treatment: Stainless Steel Ultrafiltration Membrane as a Viable Option.” Membranes 2023, 13(11), 880; https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes13110880.

PRESENTATION

3) Saubana Olorunsola Dada, William Richardson.

“Heart Failure Predictions using an Integrated Mechanistic a+ Machine Learning Model.” Arkansas Bioinformatics Consortium, AR, USA (Feb 2024).

2) A Yeganegi, S Dada, WJRichardson.

“Mechanosensitive Protease Network Modeling for Patient-Specific Heart Failure Predictions.” Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering Annual Meeting, Paris, France (May 2023).

1) Saubana Dada, Mahmood Jebur, Ranil Wickramasinghe.

“Tangential Flow Treatment of Poultry Processing Wastewater Using Stainless Steel Ultrafiltration Membrane.” American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, USA (Nov 2022).