Machine learning, MLOps and enterprise infrastructure

Edidiong-Abasi
Anwanane
builds AI systems that ship with their receipts.

I train models, deploy them, evaluate them honestly, and run the infrastructure they depend on. I bring fifteen years of running production systems and a Georgia Tech MSc in Computer Science to problems where knowing how well a model performs matters as much as building it.

SilverKaggle medal, top 4% of 6,125 teams
NeurIPSBlack in AI Workshop author
15+ yrsEnterprise infrastructure
Portrait of Edidiong-Abasi Anwanane

About

I am a machine learning and infrastructure engineer based in Lagos, Nigeria. For fifteen years I have been the sole technical owner of the enterprise infrastructure at the West African Institute for Financial and Economic Management (WAIFEM), a regional institution that trains central bankers and finance officials across five countries in partnership with the IMF, the World Bank and the African Development Bank. I run everything from identity management and virtualization to fibre-optic and satellite links, with round-the-clock accountability.

In 2024 I completed an MSc in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, specializing in Interactive Intelligence: machine learning, knowledge-based AI and human-computer interaction. Since then I have turned that training into applied work: a Kaggle silver medal in geosteering prediction, an accepted CLEF working note in bioacoustics, an open-source cost-aware evaluation library, and a set of production AI systems that ship with their evaluation harnesses and failure taxonomies.

What connects it all is a conviction that AI systems should be honest about what they do not know. I build for abstention, instrumentation and evaluation first, and for the real conditions of the places I have worked: constrained bandwidth, tight budgets and users who need to check an answer, not trust it.

I am open to senior roles in MLOps, ML platform engineering, applied machine learning and digital transformation, whether remote or with relocation.

Recent results

Verifiable outcomes from the last year of applied work.

241 / 6,125
ROGII Wellbore Geology Prediction

Silver medal, top 4%. Rose 3,039 places on the private leaderboard.

CLEF 2026
BirdCLEF+ working note accepted

Empirical study of ensemble diversity on frozen foundation-model embeddings.

3 systems
Production AI portfolio

RAG, bounded agent and data pipeline, each with a running evaluation suite.

paretoeval
Open-source library

Cost-aware evaluation for LLM applications, with regression gates in CI.

Projects

Every project links to its public repository. Competition entries show the results as scored on the private leaderboard.

Open source

paretoeval

Cost-aware evaluation for LLM applications. Scores quality per dollar, attributes cost across every pipeline stage including retries, models self-hosted GPU economics with utilisation, and fails the build when cost or quality regresses. Composes with Ragas, DeepEval, tokencost and OpenTelemetry backends.

Pythonpytest pluginOpenTelemetryApache 2.0
Hackathon 2026

Powerline: Alexa+ home power copilot

A stateful MCP server that makes a household solar inverter conversational. Answers "can I run the iron for 30 minutes?" with a real forecast, plans the day's appliances around solar surplus, learns the local grid pattern and pushes server-initiated low-battery alerts. Supports Growatt and Victron hardware with a built-in simulator. Built for the Amazon Developer Hackathon 2026.

TypeScriptMCP (Streamable HTTP)MCP AppsAmazon Bedrock38 tests
Silver medal

Blind-Zone TVT Prediction in Horizontal Wells

Kaggle ROGII Wellbore Geology Prediction. A change of coordinates turns a noisy regression into a tracking problem; a second-order hidden-state tracker follows structural position and dip through a banded trellis, fused with drift-cancelling and spatial-field branches. Runs on one CPU core at about four seconds per well. Entered with one month left in the competition.

241of 6,125 teams
+3,039places at private reveal
45%error reduction vs baseline
PythonNumPyBeam searchSignal processing
Paper accepted

BirdCLEF+ 2026: Late-Entry Solution and Ensemble-Diversity Study

Multi-taxon acoustic species identification in the Brazilian Pantanal. Entered solo with two weeks left on free-tier compute. Extracted Perch v2 embeddings over 10,658 soundscapes, trained a custom head with pseudo-labelling, and documented a controlled negative result: apparent ensemble diversity on a shared frozen representation lives in noise, not complementary signal. The code behind an accepted CLEF 2026 working note.

0.9406private ROC-AUC
1,313 / 4,092final rank
+119places at private reveal
PythonPerch v2BioacousticsPseudo-labelling
NeurIPS 2019

Amadioha: Open-Domain Question Answering for Civic Engagement

A two-stage question answering system over a curated corpus of 1.3 million Nigerian news articles: BM25 retrieval in Apache Solr followed by a fine-tuned BERT span extractor. Includes linguistic error analysis on Nigerian English, bias evaluation of answer availability across entities, and an explainability audit so every answer shows its source. Presented at the Black in AI Workshop, NeurIPS 2019.

BERTApache SolrBM25NLP
Georgia Tech

Cognitive Visual Reasoning Agent for Raven's Progressive Matrices

A hybrid symbolic-perceptual agent that solves visual IQ puzzles from raw images. Contour extraction and object segmentation feed a relational representation; a shape-agnostic transformation engine covering rotation, reflection, XOR and progression drives a generate-and-test loop modelled on analogical reasoning and rule-based inference.

PythonOpenCVKnowledge-Based AI
Georgia Tech

Comparative Study of Supervised Learning Algorithms

Decision trees, random forests, gradient boosting, SVMs, neural networks and kNN benchmarked across datasets with hyperparameter sweeps, learning curves, bias-variance analysis and cross-validation, with attention to interpretability versus performance.

scikit-learnPython
Georgia Tech

Reinforcement Learning and Markov Decision Processes

Policy iteration, value iteration and Q-learning implemented from scratch and evaluated across reward structures, transition dynamics, discount factors and exploration schedules, with visualization of convergence and policy behaviour.

PythonMDPsQ-learning
Georgia Tech

Unsupervised Learning and Dimensionality Reduction

k-means, Gaussian mixture models, ICA, PCA, t-SNE and random projection applied across two datasets, with reduced representations fed into downstream neural network training to test when each technique recovers meaningful latent structure.

scikit-learnPython
Georgia Tech

Randomized Optimization

Genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and randomized hill climbing compared across optimization landscapes, then applied to neural network weight tuning, with analysis of temperature schedules and exploration versus exploitation.

PythonMetaheuristics
Responsible AI

AI Fairness and Bias Auditing with IBM AIF360

Audited demographic bias in two real-world datasets, Taiwan credit allocation and the Mental Health in Tech survey, using statistical parity difference, disparate impact and consistency metrics, then applied pre-processing mitigation and measured the accuracy-fairness trade-off.

AI Fairness 360Python
Multimodal

Word2Vec and Facial Recognition: Cross-Modal Experiments

Combined language embeddings from Google Word2Vec with vision embeddings from the UTK facial dataset to explore multimodal similarity spaces and emergent associations between image and text domains.

Word2VecComputer visionPython
NLP

Toxicity Analysis on Wikipedia Talk Pages

Data analysis and inferential statistics on a 127,820-comment dataset produced by a natural language toxicity classifier, including error analysis on misclassified toxic and non-toxic comments.

PythonStatistics
Statistics

Fairness Analysis of Deaths in Custody, California

Statistical and fairness analysis in Python of deaths that occur in custody or during arrest in California, using the state Department of Justice open data.

PythonPandas
NLP

Ad Information Retrieval with Transformers

A transformer-based retrieval pipeline that classifies personal ad-targeting data into categories such as technology, education, health and housing, as an exercise in applying pretrained language models to personal data analysis.

TransformersPython
Full stack

GameSwap: Peer-to-Peer Game Bartering Platform

Built across three phases from EER and information-flow diagrams to a relational schema to a working application: MySQL backend, Angular and Node.js frontend, Spring Boot and Java application layer, with black-box and white-box testing throughout.

JavaSpring BootAngularMySQL
Android

JobCompare: Weighted Job Offer Comparison App

An Android application for multi-criteria comparison of job offers. Owned the UML class diagrams, deployment and component architecture, and the wireframes for the full user journey, with SQLite persistence and agile delivery.

JavaAndroidSQLite
Information security

Penetration Testing Campaign with GoPhish

A controlled phishing campaign deployed on a hardened Ubuntu VPS with domain hosting, SSL provisioning and authenticated SMTP relay, covering campaign design, landing pages, credential-capture analysis and reporting against authorised targets.

GoPhishLinuxSSL/TLSSMTP

Publications

Peer-reviewed and workshop papers, with preprints where available.

2026
Accepted, CLEF 2026 Working Notes

Leveraging Public Resources as a Late Entrant in BirdCLEF+ 2026: An Empirical Study of Embedding-Space Ensemble Diversity and Its Limits

Anwanane, E. CLEF 2026 Working Notes (LifeCLEF / BirdCLEF+), CEUR-WS Proceedings.

Documents a controlled negative result: a custom head on Perch v2 embeddings looked like a strong ensemble member on every standalone metric yet reduced the blend at every weight. When downstream models share one frozen representation, their outputs can decorrelate freely while label-relevant information stays bottlenecked upstream. Link added on publication.

2026
Preprint, arXiv link forthcoming

Blind-Zone TVT Prediction in Horizontal Wells: A Structural-Coordinate Tracker with Deployment-Side Dose Calibration, and a Three-Way Study of Why Leaderboards Disagree

Anwanane, E. Preprint from the Kaggle ROGII Wellbore Geology Prediction competition (silver medal, 241 of 6,125).

Reparameterises thickness prediction as structural-coordinate tracking, fuses a second-order hidden-state tracker with drift-cancelling and spatial-field branches, and shows how submissions can be spent as measurements: a transfer law linking local validation to leaderboard scores predicted the public-tier collapse in writing before the private reveal.

2019
NeurIPS 2019, 2nd Black in AI Workshop

Amadioha: An Open Domain Question Answering Tool for Encouraging Citizen Participation in Developing Countries

Dibia, V. and Anwanane, E. NeurIPS 2019, Black in AI Workshop, Vancouver, Canada.

A retrieval-and-reading question answering system over a curated 1.3 million article Nigerian news corpus, with linguistic error analysis on Nigerian English variants, bias evaluation and an explainability audit, presented as a civic-tech tool for public policy transparency.

Future work

Projects in progress and commitments already on the calendar. More detail will be published here as each one matures.

2027

ARC Prize 2027 and ARC-AGI-4

A structured campaign toward the 2027 edition of the ARC Prize, expected to introduce the ARC-AGI-4 benchmark alongside the continuing ARC-AGI-3 track. Preparation began in 2026 with a local evaluation harness, a reading programme through the ARC technical reports, and reimplementation of prize-winning solutions. The targets are the paper award, the milestone prizes for open-source solutions and a Kaggle medal. More information in due course.

In development

Sentinel: Vehicle and Aircraft Safety Monitoring Systems

Two safety-monitoring systems more than a year in development: an aircraft crash-prevention system and a vehicle safety monitor, now in production-readiness verification with handoff documentation. The near-term goal is peer-reviewed validation through an aerospace venue before any discussion with operators or manufacturers. More information in due course.

Papers in preparation

Forthcoming publications

AttentionProbe, a cognitive-attention benchmark for language models developed during the Kaggle "Measuring Progress Toward AGI: Cognitive Abilities" competition, is being expanded into conference submissions. The ROGII wellbore preprint is being prepared for arXiv and journal submission, and the BirdCLEF+ working note will be followed by an extended study of representational orthogonality in ensembles. Titles and venues will be announced on acceptance.

Earlier career and credentials

The foundation underneath the current work: engineering, enterprise networking and the certifications that came with it.

2011 to present

West African Institute for Financial and Economic Management (WAIFEM), Lagos

Assistant Head of IT and Senior Infrastructure Engineer. Sole technical owner of enterprise infrastructure serving five West African central banks, including identity management, virtualization, Microsoft Exchange, Cisco enterprise switching, fibre-optic and VSAT links, HD telepresence, storage and backup, and the e-Learning platform built with UNITAR.

2010 to 2011

Shell Petroleum Development Company, Port Harcourt

Trainee Instrumentation Engineer under the NNPC and Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board programme. Produced FEED and detailed design specifications for eight upstream projects, including SCADA architecture, fire and gas mapping, safety-instrumented systems, and field inspections at four production facilities.

2008 to 2009

Energy Commission of Nigeria (The Presidency), Abuja

Network and Help Desk Support Officer. Managed LAN infrastructure, supported the Energy Information Systems team and contributed to international energy reporting workshops.

2023

NITDA and Coursera Scholarship

Recipient of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and Coursera scholarship programme for training in User Interface and User Experience design and Entrepreneurship, June to December 2023.

Certifications

  • Social/Behavioral Research Investigators and Key Personnel, CITI Program (BRANY)2019
  • Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)2015
  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)2015
  • MCSA, Windows Server 20122015
  • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist, Business Desktop Deployment2009
  • Microsoft Certified Professional2008
  • CompTIA Network+2007

Professional memberships

  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)Member
  • International Society of Automation (ISA)Member

Contact

For roles, collaboration, speaking or research conversations. Messages go straight to my inbox.

didianwanane@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/edidiong-abasi-anwanane github.com/EdidiongA Kaggle profile

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