Benedict Quartey
PhD Candidate Artificial Intelligence & Robotics
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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Top SchoolBenedict Quartey is a PhD candidate in Artificial Intelligence & Robotics at Brown University with nine years of experience building robotics, ML systems, and conversational AI products. He has blended academic research—focused on language, perception, and robot learning—with hands-on industry impact as a founding R&D engineer at Nokwary Technologies, where he helped enable conversational banking in low-resource African languages and secured deployment with Ecobank. His background spans teaching and research in robotics, fintech algorithmic trading systems, and founding a STEM education startup, reflecting a rare mix of research rigor, product delivery, and education outreach. Based in Providence, he brings a polymath’s curiosity and artistic sensibility to technical problems, often seeking interdisciplinary approaches that connect language and embodied perception.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Brown UniversityGeneral Science (Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Math), General Science (Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Math) at Adisadel CollegeBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science (Robotics and Artificial Intelligence), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science (Robotics and Artificial Intelligence) at Ashesi University
English, French, twi
Github Skills (6)
3d-reconstruction3
3d2
robotics2
autonomous-vehicles1
modular1
mavlink1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
benedictquartey/Covid-19_GH
Mar 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:74 commits, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
benedictquartey/Chiromancer
Jul 2019 - Oct 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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