Sanitation Clerk · CTMF (CNRC)
Supported day-to-day operations for a national research facility, ensuring a safe and dependable working environment for high-impact scientific projects.
Experience
Data Science Trainer · Orange Digital Center, Guinea
Designed and led applied AI workshops for Orange Guinea staff covering machine learning, NLP, and transformer-based solutions, enabling teams to prototype real-world use cases.
Founder · Deep Learning IndabaX Guinea
Coordinate sponsors, speakers, and curriculum for the national AI conference, including hosting a machine learning hackathon focused on local impact projects.
Selected Projects
Multimodal Emotion Detection · Lead
Built an end-to-end pipeline combining CNN-based image processing with BERT text embeddings and added guardrails to tackle responsible AI considerations.
Autoencoder for Dolphin & Shark Classification · Developer
Crafted a convolutional autoencoder to learn shape-sensitive embeddings, boosting SVM accuracy on downstream classification from 79% to 88%.
Credit Card Fraud Detection · Kaggle
Placed in the top 16% (100/641) with a LightGBM-powered workflow and tailored feature engineering for imbalanced tabular data.
Competition Highlights
- Country Winner — Umojahack 2022 & 2023
- 2nd Place — Data Science Week Hackathon, Guinea 2022
- 18/62 — AutoInland Insurance Claim (Zindi Africa)
- 78/336 — Early Learning Predictors (Zindi Africa)
- 39/493 — Faulty Air Quality Sensor (Zindi Africa)
- 100/641 — Binary Classification with a Tabular Credit Card Fraud Dataset (Kaggle)
- Multiple top-10 finishes in fraud detection challenges
Publication
An Efficient Approach for Predicting Financial Inclusion
Explores oversampling techniques to address class imbalance in financial inclusion datasets. Read the paper.
Education
M.Sc. Computer Science · Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Concentration in Machine Learning, Data Science, and MLOps.
B.Tech. Information Technology · Sharda University
Certifications
- Applied Machine Learning in Python — University of Michigan (Coursera)
- Introduction to Data Science in Python — University of Michigan (Coursera)
- Technical Support Fundamentals — Google (Coursera)
Awards & Leadership
- CIFAR Inclusive AI Scholarship — Canadian AI Conference 2025
- Lead Organizer — Deep Learning IndabaX Guinea (2023 – Present)
- Travel Award — Deep Learning Indaba 2022 (Tunisia)
- Kaggle Expert & Open Data Contributor
Technical Skills
Languages
Python, SQL, C/C++
ML & DL
PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, LightGBM, Transformers
Tools & Ops
Git, Docker, MLflow, Airflow, Spark, MongoDB
Cloud & Analytics
GCP, AWS (basic), Tableau, Bash, Linux
Languages
- French — Native
- English — Fluent