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Relevant coursework: Probability, Mathematical Statistics, Statistical Modelling, Applied Machine Learning, Statistical Learning, Linear Algebra, Data Structures, Computer Systems.

Blue Key Head · Co-Head of Fusion (African-Caribbean Dance Group) · Co-president of the Black Student Union · Co-founder of the African Student Association · ASL Club Co-Head.

• Support undergraduates in a systems course covering computer architecture, memory management, concurrency, and networking.
• Hold office hours, grade coursework, and help students work through systems-level debugging in C.

• Analyze registration and orientation-week data for 9,000+ incoming students and families in Python and Excel.
• Build dashboards and reports the NSFE team uses to plan programming and staffing.
• Track attendance and satisfaction metrics, and audit registration exports for data quality.

• Detect children's entry into multiparty conversation in naturalistic home recordings, using above-baseline semantic alignment to identify multiparty interaction.
• Build and run semantic alignment pipelines in ALIGN 2.0 on caregiver-child speech in Python, supported by measures such as BERTScore and the Entropy-conVergence Metric.
• Develop an ELAN-to-ALIGN preprocessing converter that interleaves speaker tiers by time and preserves sung and wordless child vocalisations, moving the analysis from sample data onto real daylong audio.
• Presented research on identifying multiparty conversation through temporal and alignment-based measures at the ICIS Founding Generation Symposium, September 2026.

• Design and conduct French-language interviews on linguistic insecurity among Congolese French speakers in the greater Champaign-Urbana area.
• Transcribe interviews to build a dataset documenting the community's language history.

• Developed a transformer-based model combining visual, linguistic, and BERT-derived features to predict eye-movement patterns.
• Expanded and curated an eye-tracking corpus from 225k to 800k+ word fixations across skilled readers.
• Engineered Python pipelines to extract, quantify, and visualise naturalistic caregiver-child interactions for publication.

• Built an automated Python forecasting pipeline using Darts and StatsForecast for time-series preprocessing and modelling.
• Integrated the forecasting system with AWS Redshift and Lambda for real-time execution, deploying to 400+ warehouses.

• Co-designed Mwalimu AI, an AI-powered CBC curriculum planner for Kenyan educators, in Python.
• Fine-tuned the Agricare chatbot backend services, increasing response accuracy by 20%.

• Fine-tune large language models to deliver interactive computer science instruction in Hausa and other underrepresented African languages.
• Develop frontend components that integrate model outputs with the user-facing interface, walking students through coding exercises interactively.

• Welcomed incoming students and their families to campus, leading group sessions on academic planning, university expectations, and student life.
• Served as a first point of contact for questions about registration, coursework, and adjusting to college.

• Coordinated with the NCSA Industry Program and university partners to identify and invite industry participants.
• Developed panel questions to align with the 2026 conference theme.
• Moderated and led industry panel discussions, facilitating structured and professional dialogue.

• Organised book drives raising $3,000+ and supporting digital skills training for 500+ youth in Soshanguve.