Building a Scalable Visual Search Engine Using Self-Supervised Vision Transformers
I built a deep learning–powered visual product search system that allows users to uploa...
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Ahmed Bayugo Latifa.
Final Year CS Student & Aspiring Researcher
I'm a final-year Computer Science student at the University of Energy and Natural Resources in Sunyani, Ghana. Four years in, I've moved from wondering how algorithms work to actually building systems that do things — and now I'm hungry for the research questions nobody has answered yet.
My work sits at the intersection of machine learning and real-world problems. I'm drawn to questions about how we build systems that don't just perform well on benchmarks, but that are robust, fair, and meaningful in practice — especially in contexts that are often overlooked by mainstream research.
I read papers for fun, get unreasonably excited about a good visualisation, and believe that some of the most important AI research will come from places like Ghana. I'm currently seeking fully funded PhD/MS opportunities at US universities for Spring or Fall 2027.
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Research & Projects
Featured Work
End-to-end research projects and technical work, each with a full write-up from problem framing through methodology to results.
Real-Time Produce Quality Inspection Using Deep Learning and Computer Vision
I built a deep learning–based computer vision system for automated fruit classification...
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Learning Behavioral Customer Segments from Grocery Purchase Data
I built a data-driven customer segmentation system that analyzes grocery purchase behav...
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Predicting Customer Loyalty Using Machine Learning
I built a machine learning system to predict customer loyalty from historical purchase ...
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Papers I've Read
My annotated notes on papers that have shaped how I think — going beyond summary to engage critically with the ideas, methods, and what they mean for research.
Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition
My notes on the ResNet paper — the insight that made training extremely deep neural networks possible, and why skip connections...
Read NotesAttention Is All You Need
My notes on the paper that introduced the Transformer architecture — the foundation of every modern large language model, and w...
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Latest Writing
In-depth articles on machine learning concepts, data science workflows, and the ideas behind the work.
The Complete Data Cleaning & Preparation Checklist
A practical, step-by-step checklist for preparing your dataset before any modelling work -covering missing values, outliers, en...
Read ArticleUnderstanding the Bias-Variance Trade-off
A clear, visual explanation of one of the most important concepts in machine learning -and exactly what to do when your model g...
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I'm actively seeking fully funded PhD/MS opportunities at US universities for Spring or Fall 2027. If you are a faculty member, admissions advisor, or just want to connect, my inbox is always open.