cv

This page provides a summary on my background, experiences. You can download my cv, with details by clicking on the pdf icon.

General Information

Full Name Amina Mardiyyah Rufai
contact amrufai@ebi.ac.uk
Languages English, French(Basic)
Location Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Education

  • 2021-2022
    Masters in Machine Intelligence
    African Institute For Mathematical Sciences, Mbour, Senegal
    • Thesis: Statistical Machine Translation from English to Wolof

  • 2018-2019
    Masters in Biomedical Engineering
    University of Lagos, Nigeria
    • Top 5% in the class
    • Thesis: Classification of Retinal Fundus images with application to Glaucoma diagnosis.

Open Source Projects

Honors and Awards

  • 2022
    • Top 5 Teams Google Africa Automatic Speech Recognition Challenge - Zindi Africa
  • 2021
  • 2019
    • Team Arete-Winner - DataHack by Access Bank 2019
  • 2018

Academic Interests

  • Biomedical AI
    • Medical image analysis
    • Rehabilitation through Speech Therapy
    • Speech Analytics for Healthcare Call Centers
    • Speech-to-Text for Clinical Documentation
    • Speech-based Cognitive Assessment, mental assesment and disease diagnosis
  • Large Language Modelling
    • Low resource applications
    • Clinical use-cases

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Yoga, Hackathons, Hiking, Adventurous trips, Nature walks etc.