Faruq Akinmade
Published ML researcher and data scientist
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Published ML researcher and data scientist with a B.Eng. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering and an elite portfolio of 5 peer-reviewed publications on Zenodo covering Physics-Informed GANs, Spiking Neural Networks, Deep Reinforcement Learning, and Brain-Computer Interfaces. Architect of 10+ deployed ML applications (Streamlit Cloud) spanning healthcare diagnostics, financial fraud detection, agricultural optimisation, and autonomous control systems. Proficient across the full ML stack; from raw data preprocessing through model architecture design, Explainable AI (SHAP), and cloud deployment.
Experience
ML Engineer - Autonomous Energy Grid Agent - Streamlit Cloud - Lagos, Nigeria
(2025-01)
Trained a PPO agent to optimise battery discharge in a renewable microgrid simulator — achieved 5.5% cost savings vs. standard controllers.
ML Engineer - Breast Cancer Diagnosis (XAI) - Streamlit Cloud - Lagos, Nigeria
(2025-01)
SVM (RBF) model achieving 98.2% accuracy on 30-feature dataset; SHAP explanations surface the top 15 predictive features; deployed as a public Streamlit app.
ML Engineer - Spam SMS Detection Engine - Streamlit Cloud - Lagos, Nigeria
(2025-01)
End-to-end NLP pipeline — 99% accuracy; supports bulk CSV uploads with WordCloud and feature importance visualisations for non-technical users.
ML Engineer - Real-Time Financial Fraud Detection - Python - Lagos, Nigeria
(2025-01)
Anomaly detection pipeline scoring credit card transactions in <200ms; Isolation Forest model flags $5,000+ outliers and geolocation anomalies across 1,000+ transaction simulations.
ML Engineer - Multi-Agent Municipal Infrastructure Sentinel - Streamlit - Lagos, Nigeria
(2025-01)
Multi-agent AI orchestrating vision verification and geospatial prioritisation for city-scale infrastructure report triage — live production deployment.
ML Engineer - Disease Prediction System (41 Classes) - Streamlit - Lagos, Nigeria
(2025-01)
Supports bulk CSV uploads for clinical use; ensemble classifier trained on multi-disease dataset with per-class F1 monitoring.
Education
B.Eng. - Electrical & Electronics Engineering - FUNAAB, Abeokuta Nigeria (2025-07)
