Updates
A running record of research, new beginnings, and conversations along the way.
2026
Spoke at Ctrl+Alt+Échec
I joined AfriTechElles as a speaker for Ctrl+Alt+Échec, a discussion on learning from setbacks in tech.
Read the update ↗Joined the fall 2026 BASE Fellowship
I accepted an offer for the fall 2026 BASE Fellowship, a 10-week Responsible AI research program, with Stephanie Chan as my mentor.
Joined Sentient Futures fall 2026 Project Incubator
I joined the fall 2026 Project Incubator at Sentient Futures, matched with mentor Kaitlin Bustos. My Research Fellow role began in September.
Panelist at AI & Youth Futures Action Week
I joined Encode Africa’s panel on balancing AI innovation and responsibility in African youth-led technologies.
Read the update ↗Updated EEG decoding preprint
A revised version of our work on zero-shot cross-subject EEG decoding is available on arXiv.
Read the update ↗Updated multi-query retrieval preprint
A revised version of our paper on retrieval through anomalous pattern detection is available on arXiv.
Read the update ↗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.
ANORA selected for the 2026 Futurize Incubator
Our team at ANORA, which is developing IntelliBra, was selected for Futurize's 2026 incubator cohort for African healthcare ventures.
Read the update ↗Published a LessWrong writeup on Matryoshka SAEs
I documented toy feature-hierarchy and TinyStories reconstruction–sparsity experiments for Matryoshka Sparse Autoencoders.
Read the update ↗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.
Graduated from Carnegie Mellon University
I earned my MSc in Information Technology, specializing in Applied Machine Learning, from Carnegie Mellon University Africa.
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.
Featured on CMU Africa Website
Shared my internship experience at IBM Research and how CMU Africa prepared me for the role.
Read the update ↗Retrieval work presented at an AAAI 2026 workshop
Our non-archival paper "Retrieval with Multiple Query Vectors through Anomalous Pattern Detection" was presented at the AAAI 2026 Workshop on New Frontiers in Information Retrieval.
Read the update ↗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.
Started as Graduate Teaching Assistant
Excited to guide students through the "Introduction to Deep Learning" (18-786) course at Carnegie Mellon University.
2025
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.
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.
Serving as Reviewer for JGR
Honored to serve as a reviewer (Machine Learning and Code) for the Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR).
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.
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
Joined IBM as a Research Scientist Intern
I started an Internship on AI Resarch at IBM Research, Kenya Lab. Beautiful things ahead 🫴🏾❤️🔥.
Paper accepter at Harvard AstroAI Workshop
My manuscript on Deep Learning based Potentially Hazardous Asteroids Classification using Graph Neural Networks
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
Co-inventor listed in OAPI patent bulletin
OAPI’s April 2025 patent bulletin lists me as a co-inventor of a portable breast cancer detection device (publication No. 21836).
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2024
Joined CyLab Africa as a Research Assistant
Joined Upanzi/CyLab DPI/DPG team as a Research Assistant.
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
Won Accelerate Africa 2022's Contest
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.
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2022
Won ActInSpace Cameroon 2022
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.
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