Software Engineer · AI/ML Engineer · Researcher
Building clinical AI systems, agentic pipelines, and full-stack products across medical imaging, retrieval, cloud infrastructure, and applied research.
I'm a software engineer, AI/ML engineer, and researcher based in Lagos, Nigeria. I build production-grade AI systems — from clinical decision support platforms to agentic multi-agent pipelines — and publish research in medical imaging at conferences like MICCAI and ICPR.
My work spans the full stack: architecting RAG systems and multimodal ingestion at AidCare, shipping full-stack software at HabariPay (GTCO), exploring self-supervised learning for retinal and chest X-ray imaging, and training 250+ students as Project Lead at the Unilag Data Community.
Consulting Club of Lagos · Mar 2026 – Present
Providing AI/ML consulting and strategy for clients through one of Lagos' leading consulting organizations.
AidCare · May 2025 – Present
Clinical AI platform with dual-mode RAG, semantic search over 500+ protocols, and multimodal ingestion for Nigerian healthcare.
HabariPay – GTCO · Sep 2024 – Present
Full-stack engineering on the fintech subsidiary of Guaranty Trust; building payment infrastructure and AI-powered product features.
ML Collective · Sep 2024 – Present
Medical imaging and clinical NLP research — weekly paper analysis, hypothesis formulation, and experimental protocol design.
Wema Bank · Aug 2024 – Dec 2024
AI-powered knowledge chatbot (Node.js, Azure) enabling 2,000+ staff to query documentation; Play Store review analytics pipeline.
Amazon Web Services · Oct 2023 – Jan 2024
Competitive AWS scholarship; built an end-to-end image classification system with PyTorch and CNNs, deployed on cloud GPU (CUDA) infrastructure.
Building across agentic AI, clinical systems, computer vision, full-stack products, and distributed engineering.
End-to-end agentic AI platform analyzing 797 Ghana healthcare facilities across 16 regions. A LangGraph supervisor routes queries to 6 specialized sub-agents backed by a FAISS vector store, identifying 10 medical deserts and 43 data anomalies.
Clinical decision support platform for Nigerian healthcare. Dual-mode RAG system using Sentence Transformers + FAISS over 500+ clinical protocols, with Whisper ASR and Tesseract OCR for multimodal document ingestion.
Real-time AI personal trainer using Gemini's vision API to analyze webcam exercise footage frame-by-frame. Dual-persona architecture: an internal Analyst performs biomechanical reasoning while an external Coach delivers live verbal feedback via TTS.
Real-time facial-recognition camera that distinguishes registered faces from unregistered ones on the edge — for bank branches, schools, homes, and even car anti-theft. Built with OpenCV and Azure, >95% accuracy at <150ms. 1st runner-up among 800+ participants from all 36 states at HackLab Nigeria 2022.
Winner of GDG Lagos' Amala Hackathon (₦2,000,000, winner-takes-all) as Team PRL lead. A crowdsourced global map for discovering authentic Amala spots, with an autonomous agent that scans food blogs daily — user reviews with Google auth, Google Maps integration, and an admin moderation panel. Open-sourced for the community.
Distributed information retrieval system with a custom inverted index, TF-IDF weighting, and cosine similarity scoring. Delivers sub-second query responses across 10,000+ PDF, DOCX, and TXT files with comprehensive xUnit test coverage.
A platform for university students to buy, sell, and exchange second-hand textbooks on campus — reducing the cost burden of course materials and promoting a circular economy within academic communities.
Global health data aggregator that centralizes pandemic and disease information worldwide — surfacing symptoms, treatments, prevention methods, and real-time news updates to users in regions with limited health information access.
AI-powered reconciliation tool for hospital invoices and insurer payouts. Automatically parses uploaded documents, matches line items, pinpoints every underpayment or denial, and generates a natural-language executive summary for finance teams.
Selected wins and podium finishes from 23+ hackathons — from HackZurich in Europe to Nigeria's HackLab and global AI hackathons.
GDG Lagos · winner-takes-all · 2025
Led Team PRL to win GDG Lagos' Amala Hackathon with Amala Atlas — an open-source, crowdsourced map that auto-discovers and community-verifies Amala spots.
HackZurich · Europe's largest hackathon · 2021
Won the Hybrid Team Award for Coffee_Break, a virtual break-room bringing spontaneous 'water-cooler' moments to remote teams via spatial audio.
HackOR · 2021
Built Foodify, a food-sharing platform that lets people share and receive surplus food to reduce waste.
HackLab Foundation · Africa FinTech Foundry · 2022
PheraCam, a real-time facial-recognition security camera, placed 1st runner-up among 800+ participants and was featured in national tech coverage.
Databricks × Hack-Nation Global AI Hackathon · 2026
Agentic AI platform mapping healthcare gaps across 797 Ghana facilities, surfacing 10 medical deserts and 43 data anomalies.
Afretec UNILAG Inclusion Team Innovation Challenge · 2025
Mentored a student team and built AccessLearn, an accessible learning platform with read-aloud in English, Nigerian languages and Pidgin, AI translation, a fingerspelling tool for Deaf and hard-of-hearing learners, and a document-based AI tutor.
African Computer Vision Summer School · Google AI Community Center, Accra · 2026
Selected as 1 of 31 from 312 applicants for the African Computer Vision Summer School — intensive lectures, mentoring, and research with 15+ scientists across advanced vision, diffusion, self-supervised, and multimodal learning.
Public talks, workshops, and sessions I've facilitated — with slides, photos, and writeups.
May 9, 2026 · CISA UNILAG × NACOS UNILAG
Hosted and moderated a panel on landing internships and global opportunities, featuring software engineers from Bloomberg (London) and Goldman Sachs on how students can build a competitive edge and break into top companies.
April 23, 2026 · AI/ML Track Session
An introductory session for the AI/ML track covering practical applications of AI in business — how organizations can leverage AI tools, frameworks, and workflows to drive value and improve decision-making.
2026 · Student Researchers Session
A beginner-friendly walkthrough of the landmark Transformer paper for early student researchers — breaking down self-attention, multi-head attention, and positional encoding with intuitive explanations.
Research spanning medical imaging, multimodal learning, and applied AI systems.
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Coverage of my projects and the events I've competed in.
National coverage of the HackLab Nigeria 2022 finale where PheraCam placed 1st runner-up.
ReadCoverage of the hackathon where PheraCam was recognised.
ReadTalks, conferences, and community — what happened, in words and pictures.
May 2026 · Host & Moderator
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.
Nov 2025 · Poster Presenter
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.
June 2022 · Team Phantoms · 1st Runner-Up
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.
Curated signals — research acceptances, talks, and reflections shared along the way.
A comprehensive toolkit for building and deploying production AI systems.
Interested in collaboration, research opportunities, or engineering work? Feel free to reach out.
eemmanuel.idoko@gmail.com
University of Lagos · B.Sc. Computer Science
Lagos, Nigeria
I'm currently exploring engineering roles, research collaborations, startup builds, and applied AI projects with real-world impact.
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