Curriculum Vitae

University of California San Diego

• Advised by Prof. Edward Wang (DigiHealth Lab).

Quantic School of Business and Technology

Carnegie Mellon University

• Graduate project & research under Prof. David Vernon.

University of Abomey-Calavi

Consultant (SpeakEZ: Real-Time Hearing-Assist Prototype) —Design Lab, UC San Diego

• Served as machine learning engineer for end-to-end system architecture and implementation of a real-time hearing-assistive prototype.
• Replicated and re-engineered SOTA speech separation and noise cancellation deep learning + signal processing algorithms for SpeakEZ.

Research Associate — Upanzi Digital Infrastructure Network, CMU-Africa

• Developed the ML model serving as the backbone of the HumekaFL mobile app.
• Integrated differential privacy into HumekaFL federated learning algorithms.
• Designed experimental deployments to validate HumekaFL effectiveness.
• Analyzed network measurement data for the MIRA project.
• Led the mentorship program for the Digital ID Hackathon in Africa.

Research Associate — LIONS Research Group, CMU

• Developed the initial federated SVM pipeline for the HumekaFL project.
• Contributed to drafting the full HumekaFL proposal.

Research Associate — Robotics and AI Lab, CMU-Africa

• Implemented Africa-centric human–robot interaction modes on Pepper robot.
• Designed and executed sensor & actuator tests using ROS.

Graduate Teaching Assistant — RPP & Cognitive Robotics, CMU-Africa

• Graded assignments and held office hours.
• Calibrated Roomba mobile robots for lab sessions.

Research Associate — Robotics and AI Lab, CMU-Africa

• Developed ROS-based interface for Pepper robot.
• Debugged Wi-Fi and ROS communication layers.
• Implemented actuator control through ROS topics.

Research Assistant — CyLab-Africa, CMU-Africa

• Obtained informed consent from research participants.
• Conducted, transcribed, and translated research interviews.