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
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2021-2022 Masters in Machine Intelligence
African Institute For Mathematical Sciences, Mbour, Senegal -
Thesis: Statistical Machine Translation from English to Wolof
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2018-2019 Masters in Biomedical Engineering
University of Lagos, Nigeria - Top 5% in the class
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Thesis: Classification of Retinal Fundus images with application to Glaucoma diagnosis.
Experience
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2023 Research Intern
Idiap Research Institute -
2022 Summer Research Intern
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) -
2021 Research Analyst
Data Scientist Network(formerly Data Science Nigeria)
Open Source Projects
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2023 AfriNames
- Community Research Collaboration
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2023 AfriWoz
- Community Research Collaboration
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2022 Nigerian Pidgin ++
- Community Research Collaboration
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2022 Google Research Hackathon
- Community Research Collaboration
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2021 Saint Paper Implementation
- Research Paper Implementation course at AMMI
Honors and Awards
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2022 - Top 5 Teams Google Africa Automatic Speech Recognition Challenge - Zindi Africa
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2021 - 2nd Position AIMS Microsoft Challenge - Zindi Africa
- 1st position at Umoja Hack Africa - Zindi Africa
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2019 - Team Arete-Winner - DataHack by Access Bank 2019
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2018 - Awarded with the Best Display of 21st Century Competencies at 3D Africa - HackForGood 2018 Youth For Technology Foundation
Academic Interests
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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
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Large Language Modelling
- Low resource applications
- Clinical use-cases
Other Interests
- Hobbies: Yoga, Hackathons, Hiking, Adventurous trips, Nature walks etc.