About
I’m the founder and CEO of Ubenwa, where we’re building AI to make healthcare more accessible. Our latest product, Roseline AI, helps patients get care faster and more safely. Before Roseline, we developed Nanni AI, a voice-based infant health app that has reached nearly half a million users across every country in the world. We are backed by VCs Radical Ventures and AIX Ventures.
I completed my PhD in AI at Mila and McGill University, focusing on neural transfer learning, domain adaptation, and model compression. I had the privilege of working with some of the field’s leading minds, including Doina Precup, Yoshua Bengio, and Joelle Pineau. In 2019, I received the Vanier Fellowship, Canada’s most prestigious doctoral award.
Before transitioning into AI in 2015, I studied electrical and computer engineering and worked for about four years as a software engineer in Nigeria’s energy sector. My very first job was in a Lagos factory, climbing 40-foot scaffoldings daily to fix electrical fittings—an experience that taught me what it really takes to build things that matter.
Outside of work, I recharge through sports and music. I enjoy running, swimming, and tennis, and play guitar, keyboard, and harmonica. I busked for three summers in Montreal and performed at the closing banquets of NeurIPS in 2018 and 2019.
Latest News
- 31 July 2022: I joined C100 a distinguished global community of Canadian leaders in tech.
- 25 July 2022: We closed a US$2.5M funding round at Ubenwa. See press release and media coverage.
- 24 Mar 2021: I received the Harvard CRCS Rising Star Award for 2021.
- 7 Jan 2021: McGill University just published a story about Ubenwa - our beginnings and the work we are doing to save newborns at birth using AI.
- 29 Aug 2020: I am co-organising the Workshop on Machine Learning for Health at NeurIPS 2020. Our theme for this year is “Advancing Healthcare for All”.
- 05 July 2020: New blog post on applying for the Vanier doctoral scholarship.
- 15 June 2020: I am co-organising the Workshop on Machine Learning for Global Health at ICML 2020.