Recognition
Awards & Honours
Selected wins and podium finishes from 23+ hackathons, plus grants, scholarships, and competitive selections.
Hackathon Wins & Podiums
- 2026
Virtue Foundation Intelligence Platform — 2nd Place
Databricks × Hack-Nation Global AI Hackathon · 2nd Place
Agentic AI platform mapping healthcare gaps across 797 Ghana facilities, surfacing 10 medical deserts and 43 data anomalies.
- 2025
Amala Hackathon — Winner
GDG Lagos · winner-takes-all · Winner · ₦2,000,000
Led Team PRL to win GDG Lagos' Amala Hackathon with Amala Atlas — an open-source, crowdsourced map that auto-discovers and community-verifies Amala spots.
- 2025
AccessLearn — 2nd Place
Afretec UNILAG Inclusion Team Innovation Challenge · 2nd Place
Mentored a student team and built AccessLearn, an accessible learning platform with read-aloud in English, Nigerian languages and Pidgin, AI translation, a fingerspelling tool for Deaf and hard-of-hearing learners, and a document-based AI tutor.
- 2022
HackLab Nigeria — 1st Runner-Up
HackLab Foundation · Africa FinTech Foundry · 2nd Place · ₦300k grant
PheraCam, a real-time facial-recognition security camera, placed 1st runner-up among 800+ participants and was featured in national tech coverage.
- 2022
Meta Global Hackathon
Meta · algorithmic challenge · 14th in EMEA · 47th globally
Engineered 10+ algorithmic solutions to critical system bugs, reducing error rates by 40% and improving stability by 25%.
- 2021
HackZurich — Hybrid Team Award
HackZurich · Europe's largest hackathon · Winner
Won the Hybrid Team Award for Coffee_Break, a virtual break-room bringing spontaneous 'water-cooler' moments to remote teams via spatial audio.
- 2021
HackOR — Finalist & Winner
HackOR · Winner
Built Foodify, a food-sharing platform that lets people share and receive surplus food to reduce waste.
Grants, Scholarships & Selections
- 2026
African Computer Vision Summer School — Accepted with Full Grant
ACVSS · Google AI Community Center, Accra · 1 of 31 from 312 applicants
Selected for the African Computer Vision Summer School — intensive lectures, mentoring, and research with 15+ scientists across advanced vision, diffusion, self-supervised, and multimodal learning.
- 2025
Jim Ovia Undergraduate Scholarship
Jim Ovia Foundation · 2025–2027 · Scholar
National scholarship recognizing top performance in STEM.
- 2025
PICFI Undergraduate Scholarship
PICFI · 2025–2027 · Scholar
National scholarship recognizing top performance in STEM.
- 2024
Squad Hackademy Undergraduate Scholarship
Squad (GTCO) · 2024–2027 · Scholar
Scholarship recognizing top performance in programming.
- 2023
AWS AI & ML Scholarship
Amazon Web Services · Udacity · Scholar
Competitive AWS scholarship; built an end-to-end image classification system with PyTorch and CNNs, deployed on cloud GPU (CUDA) infrastructure.
- 2022
₦300,000 Innovation Grant — HackLab Nigeria
HackLab Foundation · for PheraCam · Grant
Awarded alongside the 1st runner-up finish: a ₦300k grant, two Nvidia Deep Learning Institute vouchers, and a video documentary by BlueAfric Media.