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Meet Ghana's 27-year-old PhD holder Dr. Gloria Opoku-Boateng Osardu

The young Ghanaian received her PhD in Information Systems at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) with a dissertation research investigating brain fitness games as an intervention

Dr. Gloria Opoku-Boateng Osardu is 27-years-old who completed her first degree at Valley View University (VVU) and later relocated to the United States to further her education.

The young Ghanaian received her PhD in Information Systems at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) with a dissertation research investigating brain fitness games as an intervention for the age-related cognitive decline in healthy older adults.

In English, her research looked into how certain games that need a lot of thinking through can be used to help old people who tend to lose the ability to reason.

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She has worked with many technology giants including IBM, Google and other high profile tech companies as a User Experience (UX) Research Scientist due to her interest in technology and research.

Throughout her time at UMBC, Dr. Opoku-Boateng received scholarships and grants from IBM, Google, LinkedIn and Xerox, and participated in several conferences, including the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference, AMIA conference for informatics professionals, engineering-focused Global Students Forum, and Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology.

In an interview with Techpreneur Magazine, Dr Gloria Opoku-Boateng disclosed that he has suffered many setbacks through her journey.

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She said "I have experienced a lot of rejections, self-doubt and my path into UX Research Scientist has not been as clear and direct as it seems but forging my path forward when it is extremely hard to eliminate possibilities."

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