Akinola Ikudayisi is a full-time Associate Professor of Water and Environmental Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology (FEBEIT) at Walter Sisulu University (WSU), South Africa. Currently, Akinola is the head of the Civil Engineering department at WSU. Akinola has acquired 20 years’ experience as part of the academic staff in the higher education sector. Akinola has been involved in teaching and learning, research and development, community engagement, and academic administration. Akinola's research interests include solid waste management, integrated water resources management, water and wastewater treatment, irrigation water management, artificial intelligence, neurocomputing, modeling and simulation, evolutionary algorithms, water resources optimization, water quality, and modeling. To date, Akinola has published four (4) book chapters, twenty (20) articles in peer-reviewed journals, and four (4) conference papers. Akinola has supervised both undergraduate and postgraduate research studies and also acted as an external examiner for some universities. Akinola is a reviewer for some peer-reviewed journals and also a member of some professional bodies such as the Water Institute of Southern Africa (WISA), International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), and South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE).