I'm the Director of Research at Sunbird AI in Uganda. Previously I was a Staff Research Software Engineer at Google Research, and tech lead for Africa projects at UN Global Pulse.

Some projects:

• Sunflower is a collection of LLMs that support 31 Ugandan languages, optimised for machine translation.
  [preprint, models, blog]
• I started the Open Buildings project in Google Brain, using computer vision and satellite imagery to map nearly all the buildings in Africa, Latin America and South/Southeast Asia.
• At the UN I worked on language technology for early warning from community radio stations.
• I co-founded the AI lab at Makerere University and worked on various practical projects including malaria diagnosis and crop disease classification.