About Me
I'm Sharon Ibejih
I’m a Data Scientist and AI Engineer specializing in NLP, machine learning, and scalable AI solutions. I’ve led AI-powered chatbot projects for intelligent data access and contributed to low-resource NLP and open-source tools for African languages. I’m committed to using AI for social good and empowering African communities.
5
Years of Experience
11
Speaking Events
30
Citiations
Work Experience
2023 - Present
Data Scientist | Sterling Bank Plc., Nigeria
Unified credit risk assessment models across the bank, from ideation to deployment, streamlining credit decision-making for all products.
Led the technical implementation of a centralized AI hub for domain-specific chatbots, boosting operational efficiency, and developed an in-house image verification model to cut onboarding costs.
Manage MLOps processes within the data unit.
2023 - 2024
Machine Learning Fellow | Sunbird AI, Uganda
Led team documentation for reproducibility and managed the curation and translation of Igbo datasets for machine translation.
Contributed to developing SALT, an open-source Python tool for data processing and model evaluation for African languages.
2022
Software and Machine Learning Engineer | Insidatics Inc., Delaware
Collaborated in the development of CreditNET, a Machine Learning (ML)-as-a-service (MLaaS) cloud platform which predicts the likelihood of a predefined set of credit events in real-time. This pipeline encompasses data cleaning, feature engineering, model building, evaluation, and interpretability using SHAP.
Developed a comprehensive and secured API documentation using Flask and Swagger.
2020 - 2022
First-authored a paper on Nigerian-accented English speech processing, leading the curation and translation of 8 hours of speech data, and contributed to AI Ethics guidelines for NLP technologies.
Built an end-to-end audio analytics pipeline for call center insights, featuring speaker diarization and sentiment analysis, while collaborating on research experiments and publications.