Emmanuel Idoko
Software Engineer · AI/ML Engineer · Researcher
Education
2021 – 2025
B.Sc. Computer Science
University of Lagos
CGPA: 4.68 / 5.0
Experience
Mar 2026 – Present
AI/ML Consultant
Consulting Club of Lagos · Consulting
- Providing AI/ML strategy and consulting for client engagements through one of Lagos' leading consulting organizations.
May 2025 – Present
Founder & AI/ML Engineer
AidCare · Founding
- Architecting a clinical AI decision-support platform for Nigerian healthcare.
- Dual-mode RAG system with semantic search over 500+ clinical protocols using FAISS and Sentence Transformers.
- Multimodal document ingestion via Whisper ASR and Tesseract OCR; RBAC access control layer.
Sep 2024 – Present
Software Engineer
HabariPay – GTCO · Contract · Hybrid
- Full-stack engineering on payment infrastructure and AI-powered product features for the fintech subsidiary of Guaranty Trust.
- Built vendor management application (Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL) used by 260+ attendees.
- TF-IDF recommendation engine and Gemini-powered product summaries.
Sep 2024 – Present
Independent ML Researcher
ML Collective · Remote
- Research in medical imaging and clinical NLP — Few-Shot Sampling, Computer Vision.
- Weekly paper analysis, hypothesis formulation, and experimental protocol design.
- Authored papers accepted at MICCAI 2025 and ICPR 2026.
Aug 2024 – Dec 2024
Software Engineer – Data and AI
Wema Bank Plc. · Internship · Hybrid
- Built Wema Wiki — an AI chatbot integrated into Microsoft Teams enabling 2,000+ staff to query bank documentation.
- Developed advanced SQL scripts for data requests across departments.
- Product recommendation model with OpenAI; Play Store comment analytics pipeline.
May 2024 – Aug 2024
Software Engineer – Data Structures & Algorithms
Wolfstation · Apprenticeship · Remote
- Worked with data structures and algorithm patterns and concepts.
- Facilitated and participated in problem-solving sessions and competitive programming hackathons.
Oct 2023 – Jan 2024
AWS AI & ML Scholar
Amazon Web Services · Scholarship · Remote
- Awarded the AWS AI & Machine Learning Scholarship — completed all requirements ahead of schedule.
- Built an end-to-end image classification system using Python, PyTorch, and CNNs.
- Deployed via command-line interface on cloud-based GPU (CUDA) infrastructure.
Feb 2023 – May 2023
Cloud Engineer
NexaScale · Apprenticeship · Remote
- Automated 30+ AWS resources with Terraform; microservice app containerized with Docker.
- Orchestrated on Kubernetes (AKS); worked across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Jul 2021 – Nov 2021
Lead Software Developer
Zuri Chat · Contract
- Developed virtual music and chess room features with WebRTC — real-time A/V sync, multiplayer, third-party API integration.
- Led cross-language team integration; optimized response times by 50% via caching.
- Managed deployment pipeline with GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
Mar 2021
Frontend Developer Hackathon Winner
HackOR Hackathon · Hackathon · Virtual
- Built a food-sharing platform enabling people to share and receive surplus food to reduce waste.
- HackOR 2021 Finalist & Winner.
Publications
2025
SharpXR: Structure-Aware Denoising for Pediatric Chest X-Rays
Emmanuel Idoko et al.
MIRASOL Workshop, MICCAI 2025 · Accepted
2026
VAMAE: Vessel-Aware Masked Autoencoders for OCT-Angiography
Emmanuel Idoko
ICPR 2026 — 28th Int'l Conference on Pattern Recognition · Accepted
In Progress
Cross-Modality Attention Fusion for Chest X-ray Diagnosis
Emmanuel Idoko
Ongoing Research · Working Paper
2025
SharpXR Research Poster Presentation
Emmanuel Idoko
MIRG-ICAIR 2025 — Machine Intelligence Research Group Conference · Poster
Skills
Machine Learning & AI
PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers · FAISS, Sentence Transformers, LangGraph · OpenAI API, Gemini API · Computer Vision (OpenCV, ViTs) · Whisper ASR, Tesseract OCR · Scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy
Programming Languages
Python, TypeScript, JavaScript · Java, C#, SQL, Bash · C (systems & assembly)
Frameworks & Infrastructure
Next.js, React, Node.js, FastAPI · PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQLite · Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform · AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean · GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps
Awards & Recognition
- Jim Ovia Foundation Scholar
- PICFI Scholar
- Squad Hackademy Scholar
- HackOR 2021 — Frontend Hackathon Winner
- Hacklab Hackathon — 2nd Place (PheraCAM)
- AWS AI & ML Scholarship Recipient
- GDSC UNILAG Deputy Lead
- Project Lead — Unilag Data Community (250+ students)