Akwum Onwunta is a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (CMAI), George Mason University, Fairfax. Before joining CMAI, he had worked as a postdoc  at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP),  Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg, Germany as a scientific researcher  and  Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, as a Marie Curie research fellow / quantitative risk analyst.  He holds a PhD in Mathematics from Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.