Kate Adebola Okikiolu (born 1965) is a British mathematician.
In 1991 she earned her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles,[6] for her thesis The Analogue of the Strong Szego Limit Theorem on the Torus and the 3-Sphere.
[5][7][8] Based on her PhD work, Okikiolu resolved a conjecture of Peter Wilcox Jones concerning a continuous version of the travelling salesman problem.
She then worked as a visiting assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and joined the faculty at the University of California at San Diego in 1995.
In 1997 she also was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers[14] for both her mathematical research and her development of mathematics curricula for inner-city school children.