EXPERIENCE :
Institute for Health Measurement Southern Africa (IHM)
Software Developer Intern
Jan 2023 - Present
📌 Assist a team of developers on Zambia's largest electronic health care system; SmartCare.
📌 Document SmartCare plus 2.0 system modules.
📌 Document SmartCare plus 2.0 system modules.
The University of Zambia
Zambezi Voice Student Fellow
Mar 2022 - Mar 2023
📌 Collected text data and speech data for low resource languages in Zambia.
📌 Collaborated with a team to construct a speech corpus.
📌 Trained and evaulated models.
📌 Assisted on documenting the research findings.
🎉Our paper Zambezi Voice: A Multilingual Speech Corpus for Zambian Languages has been accepted to the 24th INTERSPEECH 2023 Conference to be held in Dublin, Ireland from August 20-24, 2023. See pre-print here!
📌 Collaborated with a team to construct a speech corpus.
📌 Trained and evaulated models.
📌 Assisted on documenting the research findings.
🎉Our paper Zambezi Voice: A Multilingual Speech Corpus for Zambian Languages has been accepted to the 24th INTERSPEECH 2023 Conference to be held in Dublin, Ireland from August 20-24, 2023. See pre-print here!
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SKILLS :
Java
Kotlin
Javascript
Python
Node
React
GatsbyJS
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Frontend Web Development
Python Automation
Natural Language Processing(NLP)
Power BI
Tableau
Database Design and Management
Data Analysis and Visualisation
Machine Learning
Agile Workflow
Customer Support
EDUCATION :
The University of Zambia
Computer Science
May 2023
📌 I obtained my Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Zambia, where I specialized in Software Engineering.
📌 For my undergraduate thesis, I conducted research on the development of Automatic Speech Recognition models for low resource languages in Zambia.
PROJECTS :
Automatic speech recognition system(ASR) models for 5hrs of speechdata in ChiTonga, a low resource langauge in Zambia.
PythonHuggingFace TransformersWhisperWav2Vec2FairSEQKenLM Language Model Toolkit
Data cleaning and transformation to enable the creation of a database to hold information about bank marketing campaigns.
PythonPostgreSQL
A repo of the work I have done as a freelancer on upwork. The work varies from web scrapping, data mining, and excel automation, etc.
PythonData AnalysisExcelContent WritingWeb ScrappingMore...
A predictive model to predict the credit score of customers.
PythonScikit-learnExploratory data analysis (EDA)Predictive modelingKaggle