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2026

July

9

Intellibra won Cameroon's Social Entrepreneurship Prize (1st Place)

Our project Intellibra — an AI-powered thermography device for accessible breast cancer screening — won first place at the Cameroon Social Entrepreneurship Prize.

June

15

I documented my replication and cross-model extension of Matryoshka Sparse AutoEncoders — how nested dictionaries recover feature hierarchies that vanilla SAEs lose.

1

Joined Jinesis AI Lab at the University of Toronto

I started as a Research Assistant in Mechanistic Interpretability, researching the generalizability of interpretability techniques across models and tasks.

May

15

Graduated from Carnegie Mellon University

I earned my Master's degree in Applied Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University. Grateful for an incredible journey — onward to AI safety research.

February

16

Joined BlueDot Training Cohort on Technical AI Alignment

An intensive training program focused on technical AI alignment. I am excited to be part of the Feb 2026 cohort and to deepen my understanding of these critical topics.

3

Shared my internship experience at IBM Research and how CMU Africa prepared me for the role.

January

12

Paper on Adaptive LSA submitted to IJIM

Our work "An Adaptive Latent Semantic Analysis Framework for Binary Text Classification" has been submitted to the International Journal of Information Management.

12

Started as Graduate Teaching Assistant

Excited to guide students through the "Introduction to Deep Learning" (18-786) course at Carnegie Mellon University.

2025

December

11

Paper on Zero-Shot EEG Decoding submitted at MIDL 2026

Our work on "Zero-Shot Neural Priors for Generalizable Cross-Subject and Cross-Task EEG Decoding" has been submitted at the Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL) 2026 conference.

September

4

Attending the 9th African Aviation Summit 2025

Attended the Africa Aviation Summit 2025. Presented a Poster, Connected with Aerospace Engineers and Researchers. Witnessed (live) the launch of futuristic air-mobility technologies In Rwanda, Kigali.

August

15

Retrieval paper accepted at AAAI 2026

Our paper "Retrieval with Multiple Query Vectors through Anomalous Pattern Detection" has been accepted at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2026.

July

1

Serving as Reviewer for JGR

Honored to serve as a reviewer (Machine Learning and Code) for the Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR).

1

Two papers accepted at IEEE MIGARS 2025

Our paper on 'Mapping Socioeconomic Air Quality Disparities in Rwanda Using Sentinel-5P TROPOMI Data' and 'Tropospheric level humidity Inference using Geographical features for contrails prediction In African Airspace' were accepted.

June

30

Presented a Talk on Open Source

Invited by the Techies Haven community, I shared my Open Source contributions experience. The story of how I built my profile as a Software Engineer. I also shared my experience working with G-Research as a Open Source Engineer Intern, during MLH Fellowship 3034

1

Joined IBM as a Research Scientist Intern

I started an Internship on AI Resarch at IBM Research, Kenya Lab. Beautiful things ahead 🫴🏾❤️‍🔥.

May

20

Paper accepter at Harvard AstroAI Workshop

My manuscript on Deep Learning based Potentially Hazardous Asteroids Classification using Graph Neural Networks

4

Presented a talk about Geospatial AI

Invited by the Gaston-Berger University Computer Science club, In Senegal, I talked about Geospatial AI, and the opportunities behind it, as it links to the new Segenal's Saltellite: GAINDESAT-1

2024

September

1

Joined CyLab Africa as a Research Assistant

Joined Upanzi/CyLab DPI/DPG team as a Research Assistant.

April

12

Won Falling Walls Lab Cameroon

My team pitched our Intellibra solution: Using AI-assisted thermography device for accessible breast cancer screening in low-resource settings. Our team will be representing Cameroon at International Finals

March

7

We participated to the 2022's ActInSpace Hackathon. Despite being the youngests in the competition, we emerged as winner with our AI solution for flight path optimization to reduce aviation's climate impact.

2022

June

11

We participated to the 2022's ActInSpace Hackathon. Despite being the youngests in the competition, we emerged as winner with our AI solution for flight path optimization to reduce aviation's climate impact.