Atinuke Adebanji is a statistician with requisite theoretical and analytical skills acquired over time as a career academician with research interests in Theoretical and Applied Statistics, Population and Development Statistics, and Biostatistics. In the course of her career, she has carried out interdisciplinary collaborative research and sourced research grants while teaching and supervising students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels within and outside Ghana. She is the originator and Coordinator of KNUST-Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis (KNUST-LISA), which is a centre that promotes statistical and data science knowledge and applications. Atinuke is an ardent believer in mentoring students and younger faculty, she is also a protagonist for females in STEM which has seen her playing a focal role in Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Ghana (WiSTEM_Gh).