Recent Publications

The simplicity and expressiveness of a histogram render it a useful feature in different contexts including deep learning. Although the …

Although deep-learning-based methods have significantly improved the performance of speech separation over the past few years, …

Reinforcement learning in a multi agent system is difficult because these systems are inherently non-stationary in nature. In such a …

Monocular Depth Estimation is usually treated as a supervised and regression problem when it actually is very similar to semantic …

It is expensive to generate real-life image labels and there is a domain gap between real-life and simulated images, hence a model …

The objective of this paper is to review the impact of climate change on solar cells efficiency. What is most commonly studied is the …

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Experience

 
 
 
 
 
February 2020 – Present
Lagos, Nigeria

Research Engineer

Instadeep

Activities include:

  • Currently working on improving model free RL algorithm sample efficiency by combining with model based RL techniques.
 
 
 
 
 
June 2019 – August 2019
Lagos, Nigeria

AI Research Intern

Instadeep

Activities include:

  • Deployed a federated learning on a mobile device.
 
 
 
 
 
January 2019 – May 2019
Kigali, Rwanda

Teaching Assistant

Carnegie Mellon University

Activities include:

 
 
 
 
 
October 2018 – December 2018
Kigali, Rwanda

Tutor

African Masters in Machine Intelligence at AIMS Rwanda

Activities include:

 
 
 
 
 
September 2017 – March 2018
Kigali, Rwanda

Software Developer

Data Systems Limited

Activities include:

  • Built a SAP checkout manager plugin with Java
  • Integrated MIGS payment gateway on a nodejs e-commerce web app
  • Contributed to an e-learning platform called Eshuri
 
 
 
 
 
June 2017 – June 2018
Lagos, Nigeria

Training Facilitator/Lead Developer

Sweskills Academy

Activities include:

  • Facilitated students’ software engineering training.
  • Lead students on a real project for a client using agile development.
 
 
 
 
 
December 2016 – May 2017
Lagos, Nigeria

Software Developer

Traclist

Activities include:

  • Building web app for smes using Flask (A python web framework)
  • Optimizing sme web app with angular js, webpack etc.
 
 
 
 
 
July 2016 – November 2016
Lagos, Nigeria

Software developer

Hutbay Limited

Activities include:

  • Scraped data for research purposes
  • Built API with django and django rest framework
  • Configured Nginx server on linux, database management, SMTP and FTP

Accomplish­ments

May 2020

Jeremiah N. Mpagazehe Rising Researcher Award

Carnegie Mellon University Africa

Mastercard Foundation Scholar

Mastercard Foundation

Aug 2015

Engineering Impact Award

National Instruments

PTDF National Merit Award (Scholar)

Petroleum Trust Development Fund (PTDF) Nigeria

Feb 2013

NNPC / Chevron National Merit Award (Scholar)

Chevron Nigeria

Oct 2011

Addax National Merit Award (Scholar)

Addax Petroleum