ML Research Engineer
I build computer vision systems that watch over dairy cows and laying hens — and speech recognition for Nigerian languages that mainstream AI skips.
The projects I'd show you first — with the footage to prove they exist.
2025 · Prairie View A&M University
A computer vision pipeline that watched 38,000+ videos from a commercial Texas dairy to measure how individual cows drink and brush — behaviors tied to how well they handle heat stress. Published in IEEE Access.
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2025–present · Prairie View A&M University
NSF-funded research at PVAMU: two synchronized cameras, homography fusion and color re-identification track individual laying hens through their day — feeding, drinking, laying — to catch problems like bumblefoot before a human would.
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2021 · B.Eng thesis, Baze University
My mechanical engineering thesis at Baze University: design and construction of a working fused-deposition-modelling 3D printer — assembled, calibrated and commissioned by hand, then put to work printing a miniature engine block.
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Hackathon build
A hackathon sprint with four teammates that ended with medals around our necks — Waste Wiz, our take on smarter waste handling, built in one caffeinated weekend.
View project →The first automatic speech recognition system for Ika, a Nigerian language with almost no digital footprint — built by fine-tuning Meta’s MMS and Wav2Vec2 models on a custom forced-alignment data pipeline.
PyTorch · Wav2Vec2 · MMS · Hugging Face
Serverless streaming speech recognition on AWS for five African languages, with hot-swappable language adapters and a 4× inference speedup from INT8 quantization.
AWS Lambda · FastAPI · CTranslate2
A chess engine that taught itself from scratch through self-play — Monte Carlo Tree Search over a custom ResNet, AlphaZero-style. Strong enough to beat intermediate club players.
PyTorch · MCTS · CUDA
Real-time ingestion of pressure and thermal sensor data from an industrial cryogenic plant, with an AWS data lake that let Shell commissioning engineers actually query their own data.
Python · AWS · S3
A Fantasy Premier League tool that pulls live API data to predict player points and recommend squad transfers.
Python · Pandas
IEEE Access
arXiv
Under Review
Under Review
I'm an ML research engineer at Prairie View A&M University. Most days that means training and deploying vision models that monitor animal behavior on real farms — dairy cows in a Texas barn, laying hens in our research pens — and building the pipelines, annotation tools and dashboards that make the research possible.
On the side I work on speech recognition for low-resource Nigerian languages like Ika, the kind of languages big speech models skip. Before grad school I was a mechanical engineer who built a 3D printer for his thesis, a data engineer on a Shell cryogenic plant, and a software engineering intern at Huawei in Lagos.
Prairie View A&M University · Prairie View, TX
Debyl Ltd / Shell · Houston, TX
Huawei Technologies · Lagos, Nigeria
Prairie View A&M University
2025–present · Computer vision & deep learning
Babcock University
2024
Baze University
2021 · Thesis: built an FDM 3D printer
Conferences, poster sessions and the occasional bridge.
Presented the bumblefoot detection work as first author — my first time defending a poster of my own research at a national conference.
Two days of talks on agents, RL and the state of the field — plus a first look at the Bay.
Research collaborations, interesting datasets, engineering roles — or just to talk football and ML. My inbox is open.