Cédric M.

Hello from the other side! I am an AI Specialist and Deep Learning Engineer who loves building neural networks of all kinds…among other things.

I’m an incoming AI Safety and Security PhD Student of the Doctoral Polytecnic School at the Felix Houphouët Boigny National Polytechnic Institute in Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire.

I previously served as an Associate Researcher within the AI & Robotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University Africa, which is affiliated with the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Under the supervision of Prof. David Vernon, I was engaged in research focused on the practical applications of Natural Language Processing within the field of cognitive robotics.

I hold a Master’s degree in Information Technology (Applied Machine Learning) from Carnegie Mellon University, where I was fortunate to work as a research assistant for Dr. Moise Busogi (also a Teaching Assistant for his 04-800 AB ML4EO course) and a Teaching Assistant for Prof. Bhiksha Raj (11-785 Introduction to Deep Learning) in Fall 2022 & Spring 2023.
Prior to joining CMU, I completed my BSc. in Systems, Computer Networks and Telecommunications (SRIT) at ESATIC, where I worked in the Innovation and Development Unit (CID) reporting to Dr. Ghislain Pandry and Dr. Franklin Kouassi.

Research Interests

I have a broad interest in leveraging NLP techniques to address communication barriers and access to high-quality knowledge in the context of African languages. My research activities, to date, have revolved around the implementation of ML/DL models for various applications, such as automatic speech recognition, text and image classification, and machine learning for Earth Observation (ML4EO). You can find some of my work by navigating to the projects page.

I have a particular affinity for subjects related to Leading and Managing Technological Innovation. My enthusiasm for this area intensified following my enrollment in a course of the same name, instructed by Prof. Mark Kryder.

In the context of African AI policy, I am keenly interested in examining the performance of our countries across five (5) key axes:

• Compute infrastructures (Effective supercomputing power…compute (GPU) clusters essentially)
• Workforce and Key Contributors (AI specialists; Dissemination levels)
• Regulations (Safety, Ethics, Security & data privacy)