Research
Projects
Collaborative research projects across our five thematic areas — from active investigations to completed work with published outcomes, software and datasets.
Current Projects
Natural Language Processing
Low-Resource NLP for African Languages (DEMO)
Building corpora, baselines and transfer-learning methods for text classification in low-resource African languages.
30% complete
· Lead: Chijiuka Akuma · Since Mar 2026
Federated Learning
Privacy-Preserving Federated Health Analytics (DEMO)
A federated learning framework enabling hospitals to train shared diagnostic models without exchanging patient records.
40% complete
· Lead: Amina Bello · Since Feb 2026
Smart Agriculture
Crop Disease Detection from Leaf Imagery (DEMO)
A deep learning pipeline for early detection of crop diseases from smartphone leaf images, targeting smallholder farmers.
55% complete
· Lead: Daniel Mensah · Since Jan 2026
Completed Projects
Apr 2025 – Dec 2025
Jun 2025 – Nov 2025