Projects
Nerdy stuff I’ve built
ORPHEA: AI Music Detection & Global South Music Library
2026Open-source AI music detection dataset and model on Hugging Face, built to address the near-total omission of Global South music from AI training data (arxiv.org/abs/2412.04100). Spans 30+ musical traditions across Africa, Latin America, South/Southeast Asia and the Caribbean, with implications for artist royalty eligibility and training data equity.
FIGHTING MISINFORMATION AND PROMOTING PLURALITY BY DETECTING FAKE NEWS
Part of team which that helped The Newsroom, a non-profit fighting misinformation and to promote plurality online, build a Chrome extension. The extension tool generates a trust score to online news articles and identifies hate speech, fake news, and political claims.
AUTOMATIC DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF TICK-BORNE SKIN LESIONS USING DEEP LEARNING
Presenting at LatinX in AI Workshop at NeurIPS 2020. Built a classification model to detect tick-borne skin lesions in comparison to mosquito bites and healthy skin. The model is being built into an app to help people around the world identify if a skin lesion resulted from a tick and whether they should seek help from a medical professional. Accuracy rate was 84% using a DenseNet121 architecture.
NASA NCAS SCHOLARS COMPETITION - ORIGAMI BASED MARS ROVER ROBOT
NASA Armstrong Flight Research Institute. Prototyped an origami-based Mars Rover for unmanned missions using limited materials
for the NASA NCAS Scholars competition. Presented prototype to Chief Scientist of
Armstrong Flight Research Institute.PREVENTING MALARIA INFECTIONS THROUGH TOPOGRAPHY AND SATELLITE IMAGE ANALYSIS
Part of team which will help reduce the cost of malaria elimination campaigns by ensuring that field workers locate and treat contaminated water bodies. Based on available online satellite images, topography, and ongoing data from the field workers, Generated system of models that could accurately detect small bodies of water with an accuracy rate of 89%.
AI FUTURE LAB: Next Gen Community of Leaders in AI
Co-founded as part of the WEF Global Shapers Community. Built a multi-continent network of next-gen AI leaders across policy, ethics, health, and climate working groups. Research led to a published World Economic Forum article on responsible AI governance.