Sanmi Adeleye was born in Nigeria and immigrated to the U.S. when he was four years old. He grew up in Oklahoma and started getting involved in robotics through extra curricular clubs when he was in middle school and highschool. Sanmi went to college at the University of Oklahoma where he learned more about robotics through interesting classes and research internships. He is currently a PHD student at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) where he anticipates earning a degree in computer science with research in contextual robotics.