Name: Edna Wairimu Mugoh
Role: Machine Learning Engineer @ Jacaranda Health
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Focus Areas:
- Maternal Health AI (PROMPTS & UlizaMama platforms)
- Bilingual NLP (Kiswahili-English)
- CNNs & Medical Imaging
- GeoAI / Geospatial Machine Learning
- Pipeline Safety & Model Evaluation
- Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (LoRA, Bayesian Model Merging)
Current Projects:
- Kuphila AI - cervical cancer screening (BiomedCLIP + Flutter)
- Sauti Yetu - Swahili-English code-switched health triage
- Research - bilingual LLMs for maternal health decision support
Exploring:
- Blockchain for verifiable/decentralized health records
Mission:
Applying AI to close healthcare gaps for mothers across Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria & Tanzania.- 🏥 Building and evaluating LLM-powered maternal health tools deployed across four African countries
- 🧠 CNN-based medical imaging models and GeoAI for spatial health data
- 📚 Research on bilingual LLM adaptation for maternal health decision support
- 📊 Quantitative alpha research with WorldQuant Brain (ranked 1st in Kenya, 2024 Championship)
- ⛓️ Exploring blockchain for health-data integrity and verification
- 🤝 Mentoring women entering ML and career-changers into tech
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Python |
R |
PyTorch |
TensorFlow |
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Flask |
Django |
React |
Flutter |
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Docker |
PostgreSQL |
AWS |
Solidity |
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Maternal health platforms serving mothers across Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and Tanzania - pipeline safety, model evaluation, LLM auditing, and provider routing. LLMs · RAG · Pipeline Safety · Scale |
Research applying parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA, Bayesian Model Merging) to adapt LLMs for Kiswahili-English maternal health decision support. NLP · Fine-Tuning · Low-Resource Languages |
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CNN-based cervical cancer screening (BiomedCLIP pap smear classifier) with a Flutter front-end, deployed via Gradio on HuggingFace Spaces. CNNs · Medical Imaging · Flutter · Healthcare |
Swahili-English code-switched healthcare triage tool - 2nd place, Intron Voice AI Agentic Challenge, Deep Learning Indaba 2026. Voice AI · NLP · Agentic Systems · Healthcare |
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Applying geospatial ML to health-access and coverage questions across African maternal health contexts. GeoAI · Spatial ML · R · Python |
Early-stage exploration of blockchain approaches for verifiable, tamper-evident health records. Blockchain · Solidity · Data Integrity |
Machine Learning & LLMs █████████░ 90%
Healthcare AI Deployment █████████░ 90%
Bilingual/Low-Resource NLP████████░░ 80%
CNNs & Medical Imaging ████████░░ 80%
Quant Research ███████░░░ 70%
GeoAI / Spatial ML ██████░░░░ 60%
Data Engineering ██████░░░░ 60%
Blockchain ████░░░░░░ 40%