Moments

I completed IMAGINE (Imaging Without Borders), a CAMERA MRI Africa and Medical Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MAI Lab) training initiative focused on making diagnostic imaging more accessible through low-cost, open-source MRI technology.

After six weeks of online training in MRI principles, hardware, pulse programming, signal processing, image reconstruction, and quality control, I joined the Lagos cohort's onsite Build Lab. Together, we assembled a low-field MRI scanner and a 3D linear-actuator robot for mapping the magnetic field within its imaging volume.

The Lagos cohort's preliminary report, Building MRI Capacity in Nigeria: Preliminary Report of the First Onsite Assembly of a Reusable, Low-Field MRI Scanner and Robotic Field-Mapping System in Nigeria, was accepted for a poster presentation at the ESMRMB Congress 2026.

I led an introductory session for secondary school girls on using AI tools.

I was selected as 1 of 31 from 312 applicants — with a full grant — for the African Computer Vision Summer School (ACVSS 2026), hosted at the Google AI Community Center in Accra.

It's an intensive gathering of African students with 15+ scientists from around the world: lectures, hands-on sessions, and mentoring across advanced vision architectures, diffusion models, self-supervised and multimodal learning, 3D vision, world models, fairness, and ethics.

I hosted and moderated the M.A.R.K Internship Initiative, a session by CISA UNILAG and NACOS UNILAG for students serious about internships and global opportunities.

I guided a panel of engineers now at Bloomberg (London) and Goldman Sachs through the realities of breaking into top companies — how they positioned themselves, what actually moved the needle in their applications, and the habits that built a competitive edge. My role was to keep it practical and honest, and draw out advice students could act on the next morning.

I presented our paper, SharpXR: Structure-Aware Denoising for Pediatric Chest X-Rays, as a poster at the MIRG-UNILAG International Conference on AI and Robotics — Empowering Africa Through AI and Robotics Research.

Alongside my co-author Solomon Odelola, I walked researchers and industry experts through how SharpXR improves diagnostic image quality for pediatric care, and fielded questions from people pushing the frontiers of AI and robotics across the continent.

Hosted SIT Presents: Fintech × AI.

HackLab Nigeria 2022 was my first in-person hackathon — three days at the Africa FinTech Foundry in Lagos among 800+ participants.

With Team Phantoms, I built PheraCam, a real-time facial-recognition camera that tells registered faces from unregistered ones on the edge — for bank branches, churches, schools, homes, and car anti-theft. We placed 1st runner-up, winning a ₦300k grant, two Nvidia Deep Learning Institute vouchers, and a video documentary and branding from BlueAfric Media. It's the event that got me hooked on building under pressure.