Lukman Enegi ISMAILA

Machine Learning Researcher

Education

PhD Computer Science

Université d’Angers
Sept 2020 - July 2023

MSc. in Computer Science

African University of Science & Technology
July 2016 - Dec 2017

MSc. in Computer Science

Nile University of Nigeria, Abuja
Nov 2015 - July 2017

BSc. in Computer Science

Nile University of Nigeria, Abuja
Sept 2011 - June 2015

Languages

  • English
  • French
  • Turkish
  • Ebira
  • Hausa

Interests

  • Programming
  • Cooking
  • Travelling
  • Sleeping

Facts about Me

  • Making a difference is my school day-dream
  • Simple is best

Favorite Quote

  • Start by doing what is necessary...
  • Then what is possible... and soon,
  • You will be doing the Impossible
  • -Francis of Assisi

Experience

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Oct 2023 - Present
Johns Hopkins University, USA
  • Conduct fMRI data analysis using advanced medical imaging tools.
  • Develop computational models to better understand functional connectivity in the brain using anatomical neuroimaging methods.

    • Doctoral Researcher | École d’ingénieurs de l’Université d’Angers

    Sept 2020 - July 2023
    University of Angers, France
  • Conceptualize research ideas to address problems in neurosurgical planning for brain tumor removal using advance machine learning techniques in collaboration with researcher at the department of neurosurgery, Central University Hospital (CHU) Angers.
  • Design machine learning models for automatic recognition of functional brain networks using spatial and temporal resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) data from healthy control subjects and unhealthy patients.
  • Design and implement machine learning models using graph representation leaning approach.

    • Mobile Application Engineer/Consultant

    Aug 2020 - July 2023
    ITC System Global Nigeria Limited [Remote]
  • Design Mobile Application for Point-of-Sale Terminal and Mobile devices.
  • Organize periodic maintenance and test on deployed applications.
  • Mobile Application Test Cases and General UI/UX Evaluation.
  • Mobile SDK development and Debugging.
  • Monitor and resolve software issue on all devices in the hands of agent.
  • Collaborate with UI/UX team to implement ideas to satisfy customer demands.

    • Computer Science Lecturer & Alumni Relation officer

    Nov 2017 - Sept 2020
    Nile University of Nigeria (NUN), Abuja
  • Teach undergraduate computer science courses.
  • Assist professors in research activities.
  • Coordinate alumni activities.

    • Instructor | ICT Capacity Building

    March 2019 - April 2019
    International Consulting Expertise (ICE) | ICE EEIG
  • Design Curriculum for ICT Capacity Building.
  • Train Staff of the Ministry of Information & other agencies under the SUFEGOR programme.

    • Software Programmer

    Sept 2015 - July 2016
    Nile University of Nigeria (NUN)
  • Software design and maintenance and School website maintenance.

    • Data Analyst (Consultant)

    Nov 2015
    Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
  • Database Analyst
  • Database Maintenance

    • ICT-Technical Asisstant

    July 2014 - Sept 2014
    Federal Minsitry of Health

    Student Industrial Training (IT) under ICT Unit

    Volunteer Experience

    Lead Machine Engineer/Project Manager at Omdena Inc.

    Feb 2021 - Present
    Omdena-Paris Chapter Lead
    Conversational AI Chatbot for the Elderly and Disabled using NLP
    • Analysed counselchat-dataset for responses written by experts & qualified counselors for patients questions.
    • Preprocessed AnnoMI-dataset: expert annotated Counseling dialogues which composed of 43 topics.
    • Implemented ChatGPT3’s model with its ‘text-davinci-003’ dataset finetuned to provide mental and emotional advices to seniors and disabled.
    • Deployed the conversational chatbot using Streamlit framework.
    Credit Scoring for Making Food Affordable to the Millions of Underserved in Africa
    • We performed exploratory data analysis on unstructured excel data of food payment subscription provided by the partnering company "World Bay Technology"
    • We designed a 5-level credit scoring to allow unbanked/underbanked people access financial loan.
    • We created 60+ features that provided 89% lift in the accuracy score (F1 micro) of the final model.
    • Developed a customer Lifetime value (CLV) model that generated proxy features to economic factors.
    • We implemented a Streamlit visualization dashboard to allow direct interaction with the model for credit scoring.
    Detecting the Violence Between Elders and Caregivers Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning
    • Child/Caregiver/Elderly data annotation
    • Child/Caregiver/Elderly detection
    • Child-Caregiver, Elderly-Caregiver interaction filtering
    • Child-Caregiver, Elderly-Caregiver violence detection
    Helping the Energy Industry Achieve Digital Transformation Through AI
    • Automatic generation of Smart P\&IDs from images/PDF
    AI for Energy: Transitioning towards a sustainable Energy System in Nigeria.
    • Machine Learning Model to identify high/moderate to low populated areas without adequate electricity and to decides the most suitable for solar panel installation.
    Improving Food Security and Crop Yield in Senegal.
    • Crop disease detection with tensorflow Lite
    • Front-End Web Development for project result dashboard

    Mentor at Young Data Scientists League

    June 2022 - Present
    • Supervise data science projects
    • Advice on technical issues from students

    Technical Volunteer at Bibliothèque Anglophone Angers

    June 2022 - Present
    • Research on volunteer management system
    • Technical instructor for students

    Web Developer at United Nations (UN) Volunteers

    Aug 2021 - Present
    • Responsive website develoment for humaniterian organization.
    • Website maintenance/evaluation and Upgrade for SEO.

    IEEE Nigerian Sections

    2016 - 2020
    IEEE Nigerian Section

    Technical support volunteer and Co-organizer of community activites.

    Program Committee

    • LOC(Webmaster) - IEEE PES-IAS Power Africa conference 2019
    • Nigerian Private University Games Association (NPUGA)
    • International Conference on Electronics, Computer and Computation (ICECCO 2017)
    • IEEE Association of Student & Young Professional Congress (ASYPC) 2016
    • International Conference on Electronics, Computer and Computation (ICECCO 2014)

    Programming Instructor

    July 2015 - 2020
    Edu-Teens Science Development Foundation (ETSDF), WAAW Foundation, Codes2School.org & Google CS-First
    • African Code Week
    • STEM bootcamp Instructor
    • Instructor, Curriculum and Program designer for MIT App-Inventor & Scratch
    • Volunteer at Google SC-First Programs - Scratch Programming Instructor
    • Volunteer at Google CS4HS - MIT App-Inventor Instructor

    Nile University of Nigeria (NUN) Programmers Club

    June 2016 - 2020
    Club Founder & Coordinator

    General organization and coordination of club activities.

    University Teaching Experience

    Visiting Lecturer - ESAIP School of Engineering

    Oct, 2021 - April, 2022
    Engineering Mathematics
  • Teaching mathematical real Analysis and geometry for engineering students
  • Topics:Numbers, Set theory, limits and continuity of functions, differentiation of functions, applications of the derivative, integration of functions, double integrals, triple integrals, line integrals and surface integrals etc.

    • Computer Science Lecturer - Nile University of Nigeria

    July, 2017 - Oct, 2020
    Teaching theoretical and practical courses in computer science department
  • Algorithms and data structures, computer networking, computer architecture, numerical analysis, Databases, mobile & web application programming.

    • Training & Certification

    Google Project Management

    Dec 27, 2022
    Cousera Professional Certificate
  • Foundations of Project Management, Project Initiation: Starting a Successful Project, Project Planning: Putting It All Together, Project Execution: Running the Project, Agile Project Management, Capstone: Applying Project Management in the Real World

    • Cloud DevOps Engineer

    Aug 24, 2022
    Udacity Nanodegree Program
  • Operationalize infrastructure at scale and deliver applications and services at high velocity.
  • Design and deploy infrastructure as code, build and monitor CI/CD pipelines for different deployment strategies, and deploy scalable microservices using Kubernetes

    • Strategic Leadership and Management

    Nov 30, 2020
    Cousera Specialization Certificate - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Managing the Organization, Designing the Organization, Corporate Strategy, Business Strategy, Strategic Leadership and Management Capstone, Foundations of Everyday Leadership, Applications of Everyday Leadership

    • Fundamentals of Deep Learning for Computer Vision

    August 30, 2019
    NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute
  • Implement common deep learning workflows such as Image Classification and Object Detection
  • Experiment with data, training parameters, network structure, and other strategies to increase performance and capability
  • Deploy your networks to start solving real-world problems.

    • Machine Learning

    Jan, 2019
    Stanford University (Online)
  • Courses Includes: Linear Regression, Logistica Regression, Principal Component Analysis, Support Vector Machine
  • Build ML models with NumPy & scikit-learn, build & train supervised models for prediction & binary classification tasks (linear, logistic regression)

    • IBM Big Data Developer

    April 2017
    IBM Skills Academy
  • Intensive Theoritical and Practical sessions with IBM Big Insight
  • Demonstrated advanced proficiency on topics such as Apache Hadoop, Ambari, Spark, Big SQL, HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, ZooKeeper, Knox, Sqoop, and HBase.

    • Honors & Awards

    Academics

  • Datasphere Fellowship International multi-disciplinary program on current medical data policy for scientific research | Oct 2022-Aug 2023
  • Doctoral Research Scholarship Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), Nigeria | Sept 2020-Aug 2023
  • Award of Excellence Software for Student Representative Counsel (SRC) Election | 2018
  • African Development Bank (ADB) Scholarship Full Scholarship for Masters program in Computer Science | Aug 2016-Dec 2017
  • 3rd Overall Best Graduating Students Class-of-2015
  • 2nd Best Graduating Students of Computer Science | 2015

    • Extracurricular

    3rd Place Alumni Reunion Marathon - 2018
    Program Facilitator STEM Boot-camp program by WAAW Foundation - 2016
    2nd Place VC-Cup Football Tournament - 2015

    Academic Writing

    Selected Publications

    Skills & Proficiency

    C/C++, Java, Python, MATLAB, R, & Prolog Algorithm Design

    SciKit-Learn, SciPy, OpenCV, Streamlit & Viola Data Analysis and Research

    TensorFlow, Keras, Pytorch, Graph Theory Scientific/Industrial Research

    MySql, NoSql, MongoDB Databases

    Android Studio Mobile App Development

    LaTeX document Typesetting/Formating