Saheed Obitayo, Senior AI Research Associate, J.P. Morgan AI Research
Saheed is a Senior AI Research Associate at J.P Morgan AI research. His research interests lie around statistical data analysis, modelling, and synthetic data generation. Prior to joining J.P Morgan, Saheed worked at Apple focusing on geospatial statistics & analysis and Maps data QA. Saheed holds a master’s degree in Geophysical Engineering & Applied Mathematics from Texas Tech University and a fellowship at Rice University with a concentration in Data Visualization & Analytics.
Samuel Mensah, Senior AI Research Associate, J.P. Morgan AI Research
Samuel is currently a Senior Research Associate at JP Morgan AI Research, where he specializes on natural language processing and deep learning for finance. Prior to his role at JP Morgan, Samuel was a Research Associate at the Computer Science Department of the University of Sheffield and was affiliated with the Sheffield NLP group. Simultaneously, he was associated with the Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Big Data and Brain Computing (BDBC) at Beihang University, where he completed his PhD in Computer Software and Theory in 2020. Samuel has also worked with various reputable deep tech firms, including Safe Sign Technologies, where he served as an NLP Consultant. Additionally, he has an academic background as a lecturer in Mathematics at Regent University College of Science and Technology in Ghana. Samuel's research spans a broad spectrum within NLP, including text learning, sentiment analysis, question answering, named entity recognition, entity linking, etc.
Allan Anzagira, Senior AI Research Associate, J.P. Morgan AI Research
Allan is a Senior AI Research Associate at J.P. Morgan AI Research where he is currently working on research in explainable AI. He was a member of the organizing committee for the AI in Africa ICAIF workshop 2022 and also played active roles in the AI in Africa ICAIF workshop 2021. Prior to joining JPMorgan, he obtained a PhD in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina A&T State University. During his PhD programme, Allan had a summer internship working with IBM AI Research at the T.J Watson Research Centre. He also taught various undergraduate classes in Electrical Engineering.
Babatunde Sawyerr, Senior Lecturer, University of Lagos
Babatunde is a certified AI and a senior lecturer at the University of Lagos. He is a fellow of the Nigerian computer society (FNCS), a member to several learned and professional organizations and a visiting scholar to over 5 universities around the world. His research/expertise focus induces the design and development of Nature-Inspired search and optimization algorithms for both continuous and combinatorial optimization problems, AI, Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. He has authored, co-authored several AI related papers. To mention a few, he is a founding member and research lead for Machine Intelligence Research Group (MIRG) and the Department of Computer Science and Mathematical ANalysis and Optimization Research Group (MANORG) at the University of Lagos.