🌍 I’m an AI and Digital Transformation Expert based in Africa, driving innovative solutions for social good and sustainable development.

🤖 CMU’23 Graduate with a Masters in Engineering Artificial Intelligence (MSEAI’23)

💚 My research focuses on AI for Social Good, exploring how to use AI in underdeveloped regions and domains.

🔬 I’ve published work in East African Speech Recognition and in Reinforcement Learning for Energy.

Selected Experiences

Professional Experiences

• Trust Stamp: Developed methods for AI-based identity management and enhanced machine learning back-end, focusing on security and efficiency.
• RICOS Engineering: Led tech projects, designed renewable energy networks for refugee camps, and achieved significant operational cost reductions.
• Innovation Baylasan: Directed data science initiatives, developed forecasting models, and contributed to strategic decision-making.

Research Projects

• Multilingual ASR for Kinyarwanda Language: Created an ASR system with a 16% WER, utilizing the Common Voice dataset and conformer models.
• Enhancing Energy Trading Between Islanded Microgrids: Optimized microgrid operations with reinforcement learning, achieving a 20% cost reduction.
• Attention-Based Speech Recognition: Developed a speech recognition system with pyramidical LSTMs and attention mechanisms, achieving a 5.5 Levenshtein Distance on the WSJ dataset.

Community Building

• Zindi.africa: Served as the Country Ambassador for Sudan.
• Deep Learning IndabaX: Organized and mentored teams for IndabaX Sudan and IndabaX Rwanda.
• IEEE Sudan: Led, organized, and advised on various initiatives to promote AI and machine learning.