Hello,
MSc Automation Control & Robotics at Sheffield Hallam University. I build deep learning systems for underwater navigation, sleep analysis, and real-world AI products. Founder of Debug Tech — the UK’s grassroots Physical AI builder community.
Open source
Projects.
Production ML systems, applied research tools, and community infrastructure. Pull requests welcome.
WhatsApp maternal health triage for Warri, Nigeria. Whisper + Wav2Vec2 ASR for Nigerian Pidgin, XGBoost risk classifier with SHAP explainability, LLM NLU via Claude/GPT-4o, RAG grounded in WHO antenatal protocols.
Collaborative filtering recommender via matrix factorisation in TensorFlow serving 1,000+ users. BERT NLP tagging pipeline, 40% model compression via quantisation. Dockerised FastAPI on AWS ECS Fargate with CI/CD.
Predictive churn model on billing and network usage data, 80%+ accuracy. RFM feature engineering alongside network telemetry. Live Looker Studio dashboard for real-time account flagging. 20% estimated attrition reduction.
Debug Tech flagship: fine-tuning OpenVLA on custom SO-ARM101 Pro demonstration data. Community-driven Vision-Language-Action model for physical AI tasks targeting defence, construction, and industrial verticals.
Python automation pipeline for large-scale network decommission analysis. Statistical anomaly detection reducing false positive rates by 30%, boosting delivery efficiency by 45%. Continuous data drift monitoring.
Autonomous drone with onboard computer vision and AI inference. ROS2, OpenCV, CUDA on Jetson Orin Nano. Planned late 2026.
Research
Showcase.
Deep learning · Sleep science
AI Sleep-Wake Classification from Wrist Actigraphy
In preparation — preview only
CNN, LSTM, Transformers, FiLM & DAFT fusion on MESA dataset (2,000+ participants). +30 percentage points specificity over Actiwatch clinical baseline.
View projectRobotics · Underwater navigation
Deep Learning Dead Reckoning for Low-Cost AUV
In preparation — preview only
TCN/LSTM state estimator + EKF on Pixhawk 2.4.8 and Jetson Orin Nano. Benchmarked on ANSFL dataset against PiDR and Topini et al. baselines.
View projectAI · MedTech
AI Emergency Triage Classification
Research ongoing
Transformer + attention-based deep learning for genuine distress detection. Context-aware, beyond keyword detection. Optimised for small-data medical fine-tuning regime.
View projectEmbedded systems · Fintech
Hybrid Offline NFC Payment System
Published 2023
Deferred-reconciliation NFC payment architecture for banking infrastructure resilience during connectivity outages. Peer-reviewed journal publication, Covenant University.
View projectCareer
Experience.
AI Research Assistant
Sheffield Hallam University
Data Scientist
Royal Iwere Foundation (RIF)
System Integration Consultant
Huawei Technologies Nigeria
ML Engineer & Co-Founder
Electronit AI
Community
Founder
Building the UK’s grassroots Physical AI community.
Debug Tech is rooted in Sheffield and expanding to Manchester and England-wide. Flagship project: SO-ARM101 Pro robotic arm with OpenVLA fine-tuning as the community’s Vision-Language-Action model contribution. Open-source Physical AI targeting defence, construction, and industrial verticals. Four planned hackathons, university and secondary school outreach.
debugtech.ioToolkit
Tech Stack.
A snapshot of what I work with day to day.
Get in touch
Open to senior ML engineering roles and research collaborations.
Available from October 2026. Currently completing MSc at Sheffield Hallam and building Debug Tech. If you’re working on something interesting in AI, robotics, or Physical AI — let’s talk.
lemuelossaiifuwe@gmail.com