Yemissi Kifouly
Independent Contractor at Udacity
Cotonou, Littoral, Benin
Summary
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Top SchoolYemissi Kifouly is an independent contractor and mentor with a decade of experience bridging education and applied AI, currently mentoring Udacity Nanodegree students in Data Structures & Algorithms and AI Programming with Python. With a foundation in electrical engineering and multiple Udacity specializations in deep learning, computer vision, and reinforcement learning, Yemissi combines hands-on skills in PyTorch, OpenCV, and GANs with practical deployment experience on Amazon SageMaker. At OpenMined they led education and engagement efforts—designing curricula, building support operations, and training content creators and technical mentors for privacy-preserving AI courses. Based in Cotonou, Benin, they bring a rare focus on how AI impacts development challenges and on creating tools for social good. Colleagues describe them as a polyglot problem solver who seeks hard, meaningful problems to tackle beyond conventional research.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.), Engineering, Associate of Science (A.S.), Engineering at SUNY OrangeElectrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Wisconsin-MadisonDeep Reinforcement Learning Nanodegree, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Reinforcement Learning Nanodegree, Artificial Intelligence at Udacity
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (19)
federated-learning8
privacy-enhancing-technologies8
secure-computation7
pytorch7
javascript7
cryptography7
deep-learning7
science7
python7
react7
privacy6
machine-learning6
pandas5
data-science5
mozilla4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
OpenMined/Bootcamps
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:78 commits, 2 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 month
yemikifouly/PySyft
Jul 2019 - Dec 2021
A library for encrypted, privacy preserving deep learning
Contributions:6 pushes in 2 years 4 months
privacy-enhancing-technologiesprivacydeep-learningmachine-learningencrypted
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