Stive R was born and raised in a small town in the Western part of Cameroon. After high school, he moved to the capital city, Yaounde, where he enrolled for a Bachelor's degree at the University of Yaounde 1. Although passionate about mathematics, he chose to study Physics as his elder brother. After completing his BSc and MSc in Physics, he passed the highly competitive entrance to the ''Ecole Normale Superieure''. At the end of his training, he obtained a fully funded Scholarship from the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Senegal. He went there and completed a second Masters in Mathematical Sciences. He was later awarded a bursary by both Nelson Mandela University and the National Research Foundation in South Africa to pursue a Ph.D. degree. He graduated in 2018 with more than five peer-reviewed articles extracted from his thesis. He volunteered as a teacher assistant at AIMS-Rwanda for 2 years while working on Data Science related topics. Additionally, he has supervised MSc essays in the AI field.