Mary A. Familusi holds a Master's of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Mathematical Statistics from the University of Cape Town (UCT) (December 2016). She earlier received another M.Sc. degree in Mathematical Sciences from the African institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in June 2014. She is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Civil Engineering at UCT, where she is working on a project titled Mathematical modelling of mechanotransduction in rheumatic heart disease patients. Mary Familusi was born in Osun State, Nigeria, where she received a Bachelor's Honors degree in Statistics. Her research interests include the application of mathematical and statistical models to medicine. Mary has been a teaching assistant at the Numeracy Centre, University of Cape Town, since 2015. She also worked with the Department of Paediatrics at UCT as a data analyst in 2018.