Our Team
Our Team
Dr. Olubayo Adekanmbi
Olubayo has 23 years of experience as a C-level technical and business leader. He has led high-impact innovations, transformational strategies, and data science and analytics projects for Africa’s two largest telecommunication companies – MTN and Airtel African UK Limited, with oversight functions covering over 300 million customers in 30 countries.
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Olubayo is also an award-winning solution developer, who has led the development of globally acclaimed solutions for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Mastercard Foundation, Meta, the World Bank, and others.
Five of the products Olubayo has led have been listed on the IRCAI/UNESCO Top 100 AI products for sustainable development. He also recently won the Global Grand Challenge on building LLMs for social good.
Olubayo also served in global initiatives, such as the AI Safety and ethics (UK AI Safety Institute), National AI policy development (Government of Nigeria, Tony Blair Institute), AI for humanitarian intervention (e.g. UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub), AI for development (e.g. The GSM Association – GSMA), AI capacity development ( Google, Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia), AI Social good platforms (e.g. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Mastercard Foundation) and AI Governance framework development (e.g. Lagos State Government).
Olubayo has a PhD from the University of London (St George/City)
Dr. Ife Adebara
Ife is a globally recognized researcher with over seven years of experience in natural language processing, linguistics, and language policy.
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She has served as a member of the Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing Group at University of British Columbia (UBC) and as an associate member of the African Languages Technology Initiative in Nigeria.
Ife has also presented her research work at top NLP conferences, including ACL, EMNLP, COLING, and the LT4ALL conference organized by UNESCO.
Her work has also been recognized beyond the academic sphere, including media coverage by CBC News, Global News Canada, AMD, and City News Vancouver.
Ife also won the Top 10 Outstanding Global AI Solutions Award from the IRCAI under the auspices of UNESCO for AfroLID and Serengeti—a language identification model and natural language understanding model for 517 African languages.
Ife’s PhD is from UBC Canada. Her dissertation focussed on the development of deep learning technologies for 517 African Languages and endeavored to make “computers usable in African languages.”
Uche Edwin
An AI product leader with over 6 years of experience developing AI-driven solutions, specialising in product strategy, design thinking, UX research, AI governance, and technology localisation for African contexts.
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Previously worked at one of Sub-Saharan Africa’s largest EdTech organisations, driving learning program management for more than 11,000 students across 5 countries
He has led key projects at Data Science Nigeria, including the Adaptive Learning Engine for education delivery in low-resource settings, Edo Data for Governance, and the Generative AI Governance Platform, each focused on leveraging AI for measurable social and developmental impact.
Uche has presented at global AI conferences, including ICT4D, IEEE GLOBECOM, and Deep Learning Indaba (DLI), shaping narratives on inclusive AI and governance models relevant to Africa.
He has also delivered guest lectures on AI and development at leading institutions, including Columbia University’s SIPA and Pan-Atlantic University.
Anthony Soronnadi
Senior ML Engineer with 5+ years of experience specializing in AI solutions for Africa with expertise in NLP, speech recognition, computer vision, LLMOps, and Agentic AI.
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Demonstrates comprehensive technical mastery across the entire AI lifecycle, from foundational research through production deployment of scalable solutions.
Recipient of the Best Paper Award at ICLR 2024 AfricaNLP Workshop and an award at the “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better Workshop @ ICLR 2025.”
Projects worked on: AfroSLM, Audio Analyzer,Family Planning Chatbot, GovLLMiner, African Voice Project, FinChat, Afrirazer, etc.