CV

Independent Researcher and Consultant

Freelance

• Part-time instructor for undergrad/graduate courses
• AI policy and governance in Africa
• African language technologies
• Deep learning engineering and AI for fun

ST Consultant – AI Associate Specialist

International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank Group

• AI and Startup Ecosystem Policy Research (West and Central Africa)
• Evaluation of AI-powered local solutions developed in agtech, healthtech, createch, e-mobility, e-transport, and edtech
• Organized and coordinated stakeholder consultations, workshops, and roundtable discussions engaging diverse stakeholders in collaboration; support with administrative tasks
• Data Analysis on funding mechanisms, regulatory bareers, and innovation support programs

Consultant - Rwanda AI Readiness Assessment (AIRA)

Techclick, UNDP & Ministry of ICT and Innovation (MINICT)

• Supported the UNDP team with the qualitative assessment of the AI landscape
• Conducted interviews with key informants from government institutions
• Contributed to clarifying the roadmap for the implementation of the National AI Policy

Research Associate (AI & Robotics)

Carnegie Mellon University Africa (CMU-Africa)

• Assisted Prof. David Vernon with the development of a Semantically-modulated Joint Episodic-Procedural (S-JEP) Working Associative Memory
• Proposed and implemented RT1-CRAM, a candidate S-JEP architecture
• Managed and executed compute-intensive jobs on a supercomputer using Slurm for job scheduling and resource allocation

Student Volunteer

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

Volunteered at ICLR 2023, actively contributed to assisting attendees, and ensuring smooth operations

Lead AI Engineer

AFRETEC Network

• Managing the Wakanda AI project team under the Supervision of Prof Bhiksha Raj, Dr Moise Busogi, and Dr Abraham Nyete
• Contributed to the drafting of the cross-university research proposal
• Initiated work on R&D: Speech processing, Language modeling, Seamless communication in African languages
• Team Assistant for administrative, monitoring, and coordination tasks

Member of the Researcher Advisory Committee

Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS)

Making suggestions to improve allocations, support, and operations

President

Zindi

Managed an increadible team of fellow graduate students passionate about AI and data science

Zindi University Ambassador

Ecole Supérieure Africaine des TIC (ESATIC)

• Motivated fellow students to join the Zindi network
• Co-lead of the platform development group (improvements and new ideas)

Master of Science

Carnegie Mellon University Africa, Rwanda

Information Technology (Applied Machine Learning)

Master of Science (Semester 7 - Dropout)

Ecole Supérieure Africaine des TIC (ESATIC), Cote d'Ivoire

Information Systems and Software Engineering

Bachelor of Science

Ecole Supérieure Africaine des TIC (ESATIC), Cote d'Ivoire

Systems, Computer Networks and Telecommnications

Hackade ARC Challenge Africa

Zindi

Selected as one of the official prize winners of sponsored flights to attend Deep Learning Indaba 2025 in Kigali, Rwanda.

Full Scholarship @CMU

Mastercard Foundation

First Ivorian to join CMU-Africa. Merit-based scholarship awarded to students with a keen willingness to give back to their community.

Wakanda AI - Advanced Speech Technologies for African Languages (2024-2027)

Mastercard Foundation

$250,000 Research grant to Advance the Inclusive Digital Transformation of Africa, funded by the Mastercard Foundation through the AFRETEC Network

Full Scholarship @ESATIC

Government of Côte d'Ivoire

Competitive government scholarship to support studies at ESATIC.