Summary
Abdulhaq Salako is a research-focused software engineer and PhD candidate in Computer Science with nine years of hands-on experience building web and mobile applications and a growing specialization in data visualization and explainable AI. He has blended academic research roles at Universität Rostock, UESTC, and Valley View University with applied engineering at Orion Ghana and earlier startups, bringing practical product sensibility to research problems. As a Graduate Research Assistant and Pre-Doctoral Fellow he has applied computer vision and MRI-focused techniques, signaling strength in bridging medical imaging, NLP, and social network analysis with visualization. Based in Germany, he combines international academic training and industry experience across Ghana and China, and is known for turning complex HCI and AI4VIZ questions into prototype systems. Colleagues describe him as a curious, implementation-oriented researcher who prefers shipping working demos alongside theoretical contributions.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology at Valley View University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Universität Rostock