I'm a Computer Science undergraduate at Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) and an AI/NLP Industrial Trainee at Sunbird AI, a non-profit research lab building language technology for African and underserved languages.
I care about bridging the digital divide in East Africa my work sits at the intersection of NLP, LLM fine-tuning, and speech recognition, applied to Ugandan and African local languages. I combine "Mind and Hand" 🛠️ architecting systems across Python, Java, and PHP to turn research into tools people actually use.
class Joseph:
def __init__(self):
self.role = "AI/NLP Engineer & Full-Stack Developer"
self.focus = "Language technology for African languages"
self.currently_at = "Sunbird AI (Kampala, Uganda)"
self.studying = "BSc Computer Science @ MUST"
self.languages_i_speak_to_computers_in = ["Python", "Java", "PHP", "JavaScript", "C"]
self.languages_i_build_ai_for = ["Luganda", "Lingala", "Shona", "and more 🌍"]
self.currently_learning = "Reinforcement learning for LLMs (GRPO)"
self.fun_fact = "⚽ Loves soccer as much as clean code"
def collaborate(self):
return "Always open to AI-for-good & NLP projects 🤝"|
An LLM-as-judge, release-gating evaluation framework for Sunbird AI's models designed end-to-end from architecture and scoring logic to a formal Project Plan and IEEE‑830 SRS, with diagrams generated via Graphviz & Matplotlib.
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Fine-tuning Whisper-small jointly across Lingala, Shona & Luganda for multilingual African speech recognition including a custom
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🩺 Healthcare No-Show Predictor ML model in Python & Scikit-learn predicting patient no-shows to cut hospital resource waste.
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🚆 Train Reservation System Java booking engine with automated seat allocation and real-time transaction processing.
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💼 Career-Hub Full-stack job-matching platform with secure auth, connecting talent to local opportunities.
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✅ Task-Flow Real-time productivity suite with dynamic state management for personal workflow.
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🥔 PotatoGuard Serverless potato-disease detector MobileNetV2 CNN at ~98% validation accuracy, deployed on AWS SageMaker.
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🗣️ Luganda Translator NLLB-200 + QLoRA-tuned Qwen2.5 translation pipeline, deployed as a live Gradio demo on Hugging Face.
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UNESCO UNITWIN Design Sprint Camp Handong Global University × MUST · 2025 |
Introduction to Data Science in Python University of Michigan · Coursera · 2026 
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Python Programming Training Ghent University × VUB × UCoBS · 2026 |
Fundamentals of LLMs Hugging Face LLM Course · 2026 |
Soft Skills Certificate BrighterMonday Uganda · 2026 
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Getting Started with Compute AWS Educate · Trained |
Getting Started with Storage AWS Educate · Trained |
🧑💻 Google Developers Community MUST hackathons & Dev-Fest Mbarara |
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"Solving local challenges with global-standard technology." ⚡
