Emmanuel Idoko
Software Engineer · AI/ML Engineer · Researcher
Education
2021 – 2027
B.Sc. Computer Science
University of Lagos
Oct 2022 – Jan 2024
AI Programming with Python Nanodegree
Udacity
AWS AI & ML Scholarship program.
Experience
Mar 2026 – Present
AI/ML Consultant
Consulting Club of Lagos · Consulting
- Providing AI/ML strategy and consulting for client engagements through one of Lagos' leading consulting organizations.
May 2025 – Present
Founder & AI/ML Engineer
AidCare · Founding
- Architecting a clinical AI decision-support platform for Nigerian healthcare.
- Dual-mode RAG system with semantic search over 500+ clinical protocols using FAISS and Sentence Transformers.
- Multimodal document ingestion via Whisper ASR and Tesseract OCR; RBAC access control layer.
Sep 2024 – Present
Software Engineer
HabariPay – GTCO · Contract · Hybrid
- Full-stack engineering on payment infrastructure and AI-powered product features for the fintech subsidiary of Guaranty Trust.
- Built vendor management application (Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL) used by 260+ attendees.
- TF-IDF recommendation engine and Gemini-powered product summaries.
Sep 2024 – Present
Independent ML Researcher
ML Collective · Remote
- Research in medical imaging and computer vision — Few-Shot Sampling.
- Weekly paper analysis, hypothesis formulation, and experimental protocol design.
- Authored papers accepted at MICCAI 2025 and ICPR 2026.
Feb 2023 – Present
Software Engineer Intern
NitHub (UNILAG Innovation Hub) · Internship
- Designed and deployed AI/ML-integrated IoT systems in collaboration with student innovators.
- Represented the hub at the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry program showcasing products.
Sep 2024 – Dec 2024
Software Engineer – Data and AI
Wema Bank Plc. · Internship · Hybrid
- Built Wema Wiki — an AI chatbot integrated into Microsoft Teams enabling 2,000+ staff to query bank documentation.
- Developed advanced SQL scripts for data requests across departments.
- Product recommendation model with OpenAI; Play Store comment analytics pipeline.
May 2024 – Aug 2024
Software Engineer – Data Structures & Algorithms
Wolfstation · Apprenticeship · Remote
- Engineered a contact-lookup system with an array-implemented trie — 20% faster with 98.73% space optimization versus baseline implementations.
- Hosted and facilitated problem-solving sessions and competitive-programming hackathons.
- Advanced data-structure and algorithm patterns, solving complex challenges in Python.
Oct 2023 – Jan 2024
AWS AI & ML Scholar
Amazon Web Services · Scholarship · Remote
- Awarded the AWS AI & Machine Learning Scholarship — completed all requirements ahead of schedule.
- Built an end-to-end image classification system using Python, PyTorch, and CNNs.
- Deployed via command-line interface on cloud-based GPU (CUDA) infrastructure.
Feb 2023 – May 2023
Cloud Engineer
NexaScale · Apprenticeship · Remote
- Automated 30+ AWS resources with Terraform; microservice app containerized with Docker.
- Orchestrated on Kubernetes (AKS); worked across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Jul 2021 – Oct 2021
Lead Software Developer
Zuri Chat · Contract
- Developed virtual music and chess room features with WebRTC — real-time A/V sync, multiplayer, third-party API integration.
- Led cross-language team integration; optimized response times by 50% via caching.
- Managed deployment pipeline with GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
Mar 2021
Frontend Developer Hackathon Winner
HackOR Hackathon · Hackathon · Virtual
- Built a food-sharing platform enabling people to share and receive surplus food to reduce waste.
- HackOR 2021 Finalist & Winner.
Publications
2026
When Retrieval Hurts: Retrieval-Induced Hallucination in Medical Vision-Language Models
E. Idoko et al.
Africa in AI Workshop, NeurIPS 2026 (Springer LNCS) · Submitted · First author
2025
2026
In Progress
Cross-Modality Attention Fusion for Chest X-ray Diagnosis
E. Idoko et al.
Ongoing Research · Working Paper
2025
SharpXR Research Poster Presentation
E. Idoko
MIRG-ICAIR 2025 — Machine Intelligence Research Group Conference · Poster
Skills
Machine Learning & AI
PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers · FAISS, Sentence Transformers, LangGraph · OpenAI API, Gemini API · Computer Vision (OpenCV, ViTs) · Whisper ASR, Tesseract OCR · Scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib
Programming Languages
Python, TypeScript, JavaScript · Java, C#, SQL, Bash · C (systems & assembly)
Frameworks & Infrastructure
Next.js, React, Node.js, FastAPI · PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQLite · Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform · AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean · GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps
Awards & Recognition
- Amala Hackathon 2025 — Winner, ₦2,000,000 (Team PRL lead)
- ACVSS 2026 — Accepted with Full Grant (1 of 31 from 312)
- HackZurich 2021 — Hybrid Team Award (Coffee_Break)
- Virtue Foundation Platform — 2nd, Databricks × Hack-Nation 2026
- Meta Global Hackathon 2022 — 14th in EMEA, 47th globally
- AccessLearn — 2nd, Afretec UNILAG Inclusion Challenge
- HackLab Nigeria 2022 — 1st Runner-Up (PheraCAM)
- HackOR 2021 — Frontend Hackathon Winner
- Jim Ovia Foundation Scholar
- PICFI Scholar
- Squad Hackademy Scholar
- AWS AI & ML Scholarship Recipient
- Deputy Trainings & Competitions Lead — GDSC UNILAG
- Project Lead — Unilag Data Community (250+ students)
Certifications
- Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals
- Google Cloud Essentials
- Udacity — AI Programming with Python
- Game of Learners — AI & ML in Azure Clinics
- NexaScale — Cloud Engineering
- Wolfstation — Data Structures & Algorithms