Welcome! I'm currently a Student Researcher at Google and a Masters student at
Ashesi University. Before that,
I received my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University for Development Studies.
I spent some time after that as a research assistant, exploring generative models and their applications in healthcare under the guidance of
Prof. Mohammed Daabo.
I also interned at the SMART Lab of North Dakota State University fortunate to be advised by
Prof. Armstrong Aboah.
My research interest lies at the intersection of Biomedical NLP and Multilingual Modeling.
On the biomedical side, I am interested in Socially-Aware and Trustworthy Methodologies towards reliable Expert Medical Systems.
At ML Collective, I'm currently part of the Medical Imaging Group. Previously, I led Multimodal AI and the Self-Supervised Learning for Small Datasets in Healthcare focus group.
Recently, the Multimodal AI Group came up with a new paradigm for image captioning in African languages (Paper link below).
Outside my academic pursuits, I enjoy singing and farming in my backyard. Check out my miscellaneous page for more details.
| Oct. 2025 | ✨ Excited to join Google as a Student Researcher. |
| Aug. 2025 | Started my Masters program at Ashesi University. |
| Aug. 2025 | I'll be in Kigali, Rwanda for the Deep Learning Indaba 2025. Let's connect!. |
| May 2025 | Happy to share that our abstract got accepted as a Spotlight and Poster Presentation at IndabaXGhana 2025 |
| Dec. 2024 | I'm excited to share that I'll be virtually attending the NeurIPS 2024 Conference! Thanks to Gloabal South in AI. Let's connect on Whova. |
| Oct. 2024 | I'll be serving as a reviewer for the Machine Learning for Health (ML4H) Symposium 2024 |
| Sep 2024 | I'll be serving as a reviewer for WiML workshop co-located with NeurIPS 2024 |
| Aug 2024 | Accepted into the Black in AI's Emerging Leaders in AI Scholar's program |
| Jul 2024 | I'll be presenting our work on Multimodal Multilingual African Dataset at ML Collective's 22nd Research Jam. |
| Jul 2024 | Joined SMART Lab @ NDSU as a Research Intern. |
| Jun 2024 | Joined @Black in AI Community. |
| Apr 2024 | Reviewing applications for Deep Learning Indaba 2024. |
| Nov 2023 | Started RA @ C.K.T University of Technology and Applied Sciences. |
Mardiyyah Oduwole*,
Multimodal AI research has overwhelmingly focused on high-resource languages, hindering the democratization of advancements in the field. To address this, we present AfriCaption, a comprehensive framework for multilingual image captioning in 20 African languages and ...
Jackline Mireku,
ACCEPTED @ IndabaXGhana, 2025 as Spotlight & Poster Presentation
The scope of Ghanaian Language; Twi datasets is insufficiently diverse, hindering a multitude of applications. To address this, we are curating a comprehensive corpus from literature, media, and synthetic data, covering formal, informal, and conversational registers. Using advanced data collection methods and rigorous validation, including transformer-based models and expert human verification, we ensure a high-quality data repository for robust NLP applications.
MSc. Intelligent Computing Systems
B.Sc. Computer Science
First Class Honours
