ProjectsEvery project ships open. Below is the current portfolio across our four research pillars — including detailed scope, deployment status, and links to papers and code where available.
Speech recognition for Kinyarwanda using semi-supervised pretraining on 1,200 hours of community-contributed audio.
kinya-asr-base reaches 12.4% WER on the public KinyaSpeech test split — a 38% relative improvement over the prior best open baseline — and runs at 0.09 RTF on a $40 Android device. Deployed in two community clinics in Eastern Province. Released under Apache-2.0 with full reproduction recipe.
On-device computer vision running on entry-level Android phones, deployed with 14 smallholder farmers in the Ashanti region.
MobileNetV3-Small quantized to INT8: 14MB, 38ms per inference on a Tecno Spark 8C. 91.7% top-1 accuracy across five classes (healthy, CMD, CBSD, CBB, mixed). 1,847 inferences logged across one growing season; 71% led to a documented intervention.
Risk stratification with limited longitudinal data, piloted across 140 clinics in two Kenyan counties.
Calibrated probability model with a deliberately conservative 'unsure' band: returns 'refer for clinician review' on 18% of cases. We optimise calibration before discrimination. Pre-registered evaluation against WHO PIERS baseline runs through 2026.
10-day drought forecasting trained on 30 years of remote sensing and weather station data.
sahel-drought-10d v1.2 covers Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and northern Senegal. Built on SahelClim-30 (CC-BY 4.0). Used today by regional partners at AGRHYMET. Apache-2.0.
Open machine translation with curated parallel corpora and community evaluation.
yo-en-mt-small (220M params) trained on AfriParallel-NG plus a 40k-sentence community-curated test set. Hard evaluation on idiom, proverb, and code-switch sets. Releases quarterly.
Quantized vision model running in under 50ms on a low-power microcontroller for in-field insect traps.
TinyML pipeline running on a $9 STM32H7-based trap. 47ms per inference, <120mW average draw, six-month battery life. Field-tested across 18 sites in Kenya and Uganda.
Low-dose X-ray triage co-designed with clinicians, deployed in two county referral hospitals.
Triage model returning high/medium/low priority with explainability heat-maps. Validated on 4,210 reads against radiologist consensus. Now in shadow-mode at two hospitals; clinical decision use pending IRB sign-off.
Near-real-time deforestation detection over the Guinean forest belt using Sentinel-2 composites.
10m-resolution change detection with a 5-day median revisit. Alerts routed via SMS to community forest monitors in three districts. Joint work with three civil-society partners.