Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Deep Learning Engineer & AI Specialist Primary expertise in building deep neural networks for fun; Interests: - Spoken Language Understanding - AI engineering & Governance, especially in the African context. On a mission to build machines that understand and speak my mother tongue, and that can help me learn it in-depth. Opinions are mine. Contact details: E: [email protected] W: https://dric2018.github.io
Building something new
- AI Policy and Governance in Africa - Compute capabilities - Speech/language technologies (seamless communication) - Deep learning engineering and AI for fun - Taking a partial career break to look after my toddler
- Supporting the dissemination of outputs from Startup and AI Diagnostic and Scoping. - Analysis of AI compute projects (data centers, supercomputers, HPC infrastructure)
- Supported the dissemination of outputs from Startup and AI Diagnostic and Scoping. - Served as focal point in country. - Liaised with WBG team, other DFIs and private sector as needed.
Country Advisory and Economics (CAE) Unit: Artificial Intelligence and Startup Ecosystem Policy Research for Senegal, Cameroon, and Côte d’Ivoire. • Desk research (Review of regulatory environments) • Stakeholders consultations (Public, Private, Academia, Civil society, International/Global Partners) • Technical support for scoping and identification of priority areas covering data governance and management, capacity building for technical and non-technical human resources, and AI-ready compute infrastructures. • Practical assessment of AI solutions developed in the following segments: agtech, healthtech, createch, e-mobility, e-transport, and edtech. • Review of AI landscape reports
Activities: - Speech processing for African languages - Deep learning R&D
Project: Wakanda AI (Full Grant - 2024) Topic: Engineering smart solutions for mother tongues by advancing language technologies in the African context PI: Prof. Bhiksha Raj, Carnegie Mellon University Co-PIs: - Dr. Abraham Nyete, University of Nairobi - Dr. Moise Busogi, CMU-Africa Sponsors: The African Engineering and Technology (AFRETEC) Network, Mastercard Foundation Activities: - Speech processing, Language modeling, Seamless communication in African languages - Deep learning R&D -Team Assistant for administrative, monitoring, and coordination tasks