I am an Electronic and Computer Engineer, passionate about technology, and it's ability to change lives. I found my passion in engineering and in teaching creative coding. When I'm not geeking out, I'm probably curled up with a good book, dancing to some House Music, or head banging to rock music.
Study of nano-satellite design and engineering.
I worked in the IoT department. My work involved: Set up and maintenance of MQTT brokers, Firmware development, Testing and debugging the IoT API and hardware boards, Writing hardware libraries, Documentation of the API and harware boards.
Worked among a team of other educators and designers to organize and host the first Scratch Conference in Africa
Circuit design and prototyping. Research on use of artificial intelligence for gesture detection. Extensive work on embedded systems.
Teaching kids of ages 9-17, from disadvantaged backgrounds, basic computer skills and computer programming using Scratch.
Recognition for NMT research work done, for Low Resourced African Languages.
Recognition for developing various assistive technology projects
Project Walking Buddy - A smart white cane for aiding visually impaired people in navigation.
System to facilitate emergency health response in refugee camps, and communication between the refugees and the community health workers
An invite only program by Google, for selected students across EMEA
Presented a paper in Findings of EMNLP 2020
Presented a paper in the Proceedings of the The Fourth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop
Design thinking fellowship by MIT Media Lab, and Northwestern University Tiilt Lab
Strengthening Africa Machine Learning
Spoke during the launch of Innovate Now - An accelerator program for assistive technology
Educators conference to share and celebrate advancements in creative coding
It is in creating tech that matters, that I find the utmost joy and fulfillment
Hey there! I'd love to hear from you.
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