Paul Owoicho
Applied AI Engineer at Valence
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Owoicho is an Applied AI Engineer and Conversational AI researcher with eight years of experience blending machine learning, software engineering and product design across industry and academia. Currently pursuing a PhD in Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, he researches mixed-initiative interactions for conversational information seeking and has a track record of shipping production-focused ML solutions—from enterprise-focused small models to prosody improvements for long-form speech at Google. He helped lead Team GRILL to first place in the Amazon Alexa Prize Taskbot Challenge, and contributes to open-source reproducible-research tooling (notably front-end and analytics work on The Turing Way). Comfortable moving between code, UX and analytics, he brings pragmatic engineering to research problems and a demonstrated ability to turn dialogue research into deployable systems.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Nanodegree, Machine Learning Engineer, Nanodegree, Machine Learning Engineer at UdacityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Informatics at The University of EdinburghBachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at American University of NigeriaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computing Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computing Science at University of GlasgowHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at American International School Abuja
English, French, Hausa
Github Skills (11)
html10
css10
responsive-design10
storybook9
web-analytics9
textbook9
docbook9
ed255194
co4
fest3
data-science3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
the-turing-way/the-turing-way
Oct 2020 - Mar 2021
Host repository for The Turing Way: a how to guide for reproducible data science
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:152 reviews, 396 commits, 109 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the front-end styling and user interface elements of the book, focusing on CSS modifications. They implemented responsive design for videos and tables, and addressed styling for table of contents. Furthermore, they integrated web analytics using Matomo and fixed a typo in the tracking code, demonstrating an understanding of both front-end development and analytics integration.
how-to-guidesciencehut23-270hostdata-science
paulowoicho/the-turing-way
Sep 2020 - Nov 2020
Host repository for The Turing Way: a how to guide for reproducible data science
Contributions:21 reviews, 57 PRs, 82 pushes in 1 month
how-to-guidesciencehostdata-sciencemachine-learning
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