A high school graduate of the California Academy of Math and Science, Arinze Okeke studied biological engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 2012 to 2017, during which time he received a bachelor's degree and completed multiple engineering-based projects. Arinze Okeke earned a perfect 5.0 GPA at the school and completed courses in thermodynamics, biomechanics, algorithms, and machine learning, while also using his efficiency in programming languages such as JavaScript, Python, COMSOL, and Solidworks to create applications like a chess engine, a Sudoku solver, models of biological systems, and robots. He was also part of a team that received an Oracle Award for Innovation for its design of a fully autonomous robot.

Fluent in Japanese, Arinze Okeke spent the summer before graduation in Japan working with the RIKEN Research Institute in Yokohama, for which he served as a research lab assistant in the study of transcriptional regulation of immune cells. In addition to his academic accolades and experiences, Mr. Okeke was a member of MIT's varsity indoor and outdoor track and field team. He won multiple awards during his five years with the team and recorded a triple jump personal best of 14.92, which earned him the CoSIDA Academic All-American status in 2017. Upon graduating in 2017, he began working as a software developer for medical professionals with Boston's Intersystems.