Researching health & language
infrastructure.
I am Ayomide, a researcher working on low-resource speech processing, health informatics, and implementation science.
Researcher and builder.
A little about the path, the training, and what I am focused on today.
I am a researcher and builder. My work sits at the intersection of machine learning, health infrastructure, and low-resource language technology. I build and study systems that hold up under limited connectivity and scarce training data.
I published a peer-reviewed paper in the International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology and completed the Carnegie Mellon University Africa Bridge Program, a preparatory track for graduate study in engineering and technology. In March 2026, I received the Most Entrepreneurial Researcher Award at the 2nd Primary Health Care Congress, hosted by Amref International University in Ruiru, Kenya.
- Software Engineering, First Class, African Leadership University (ALU)
- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Africa Bridge Program, graduate preparatory track
Published work.
Peer-reviewed research and writing, indexed across the usual academic and media platforms.
Peer-reviewed paper, International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology (IJISRT), April 2026
International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology.
Featured in Africa Career Networks
"Ayomide Agbaje, Driving Health Equity and Sustainable Innovation Across Africa through Technology," 24 July 2026.
African Leadership University (ALU) Health: Health Venture Series
Featured for HealthDrive
Google Scholar
Publication record & citations
Academia.edu
Papers & working drafts
Media portfolio
Bylines & published work
Medium
Essays & notes
Applied machine learning.
Code from health, climate, and public-health forecasting work, open on GitHub.
HealthDrive Triage Chatbot
Clinical triage chatbot fine-tuned on Llama-3-8B with Quantized Low-Rank Adaptation (QLoRA). Bilingual Evaluation Understudy (BLEU) score rose from 8.71 to 36.55 against the base model, a 319% improvement, after training on 2,000 MedAlpaca flashcards.
Dengue Case Prediction Application Programming Interface (API)
FastAPI service predicting 2024 African dengue cases from 2023 World Health Organization (WHO) data, with a companion Flutter app. A tuned RandomForestRegressor was selected over Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) and decision-tree baselines by coefficient of determination (R²).
Air Quality Forecasting
Bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network forecasting Beijing fine particulate matter (PM2.5) levels, built on lagged and cyclical time features plus a dew-point-depression interaction term. Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) fell from a 120.5 baseline recurrent neural network (RNN) to under 48.0.
Where the work happens.
Four-plus years across data science, health-systems innovation, and venture building.
Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD)-enabled telehealth platform for rural healthcare access. Built the analytics infrastructure (Python, PostgreSQL, React) tracking 78% three-month retention and 85% satisfaction among elderly users. Led primary research with 50+ patients, 12 community health workers, and 5 district health officials. Featured by ALU's Health Venture Series, January 2026.
Venture studio commercialising African research innovations. Built the venture-building framework for three entrepreneurs-in-residence and provided seed capital ($15K–$50K) to portfolio companies across health tech, agritech, and clean energy.
Internship through the ALU Center for Health Innovation & Impact and the Africa Health Collaborative. Digitised patient records and managed health data for SFH-supported health posts serving rural communities.
Literature reviews on low-resource diagnostic AI for Sub-Saharan Africa. Built machine learning models on African health data with attention to contextual integrity.
Authored 25+ data stories on tech startups and venture finance across emerging markets, reaching 150K+ readers. Built 100+ interactive dashboards for clients including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
One of 60 Champions chosen from more than 1,800 Nigerian applicants. Wrote policy briefs and advocacy articles on healthcare financing, and worked with Nigerian legislators on faster relief for camps of displaced people and on two bills, on health financing and gender equality.
Selected honours.
Recognition for research, entrepreneurship, and programmes I've completed.
Most Entrepreneurial Researcher Award
2nd Primary Health Care Congress, Amref International University, Ruiru, Kenya, March 4–6, 2026. For research under the theme "Redesigning Primary Health Care: Building Resilience amid Global Uncertainty."
ALU Ventures Lab
Completed 2026 for HealthDrive, at ALU's Centre for Entrepreneurship. A 12-week accelerator with 42 ventures across 10 sectors; HealthDrive won $10,000 in non-dilutive funding.
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Africa Bridge Program
Completed a preparatory track for graduate study in engineering and technology, Carnegie Mellon University Africa.
Research Fellow, AL for Health
January 2024 to present. Developing publishable research on African healthcare challenges.
Canon Young Champion, Finalist
Global Good Awards, June 2022.
Let's talk research.
Open to Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) research opportunities, research collaborations, and graduate positions including Teaching Assistantships (TA) and Research Assistantships (RA). Also open to conversations with people working on speech processing, health informatics, or implementation science.
agbajeayomide001@gmail.com