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Mofetoluwa Adeyemi

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I'm an AI Engineer focused on applying machine learning to real-world industrial problems.

About

I’m an AI Engineer focused on applying machine learning to real-world industrial problems. I design and deploy NLP, information retrieval, and multimodal models, and I train and benchmark large language models and AI agents to tackle tasks in these domains.

  • 6 years' experience
  • Joined February 2026

Industry experience

  • Software & Internet
  • Education
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Professional Services

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Work experience· 5 roles

AI Research Engineer (Contract) · UpfeatJan 2025 – Oct 2025 · 10 mos

Training and optimizing Mixture of Experts (MoE) and multimodal (MLLMs) models for internal tasks. Building AI Agents to collect and filter training and evaluation datasets. Curating and maintaining benchmark tools and datasets with Git CI/CD pipelines and inference frameworks such as vLLM and OpenAI-compatible servers. Developing custom reasoning LLMs using Reinforcement Learning, specifically with GRPO (Group Relative Policy Optimisation).

Graduate Researcher · Data Systems Group, University of WaterlooJan 2023 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

Machine learning research on text-based information retrieval, multilingual and cross-lingual NLP. Led the CIRAL project at FIRE 2023 where community evaluations were carried on retrieval and reranking models. Training language models for first-stage retrieval and multi-stage reranking. Implementing Large language models such as GPT and Zephyr as rerankers on low-resource languages.

Machine Learning Engineer · Decagon HQJan 2021 – Mar 2021 · 3 mos

Led the implementation of a content-based recommender system for HairX, an application to help manage hair health. A similarity-based recommender was developed to suggest hair products and regimens based on user hair type and needs.

Junior Machine Learning Engineer · Rural Farmers HubJun 2020 – Oct 2020 · 5 mos
NLP Researcher · MasakhaneFeb 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 10 mos

Education

MMath in Computer Science · University of Waterloo2023 – 2024
BSc in Systems Engineering · University of Lagos2014 – 2018

Certifications and awards

David R. Cheriton Graduate Scholarship2023 – 2024
International Masters Award of Academic Excellence (University of Waterloo)2023 – 2024

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