Samuel Donkor

email: sdamankwah@st.knust.edu.gh

department: Computer Science

Github // LinkedIn // YouTube // google scholar

Bio

I am a Computer Science student at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology interested in building efficient software systems to deliver social good. Currently, I'm working with Dr. Emmanuel Ahene to develop novel Deep Learning models and Privacy-preserving methods to consolidate and manage data to advance the health care domain.

In my free time , I develop and implement key algorithms and data structures targeted for analyzing real genomes and DNA sequencing datasets.

Projects

Some of my recent projects

Teaching

Courses, students, & mentorship

Entrepreneurship

Startups, initiatives, & innovations

Publications

My latest published research

News

Sept
2022

🏆 Awarded a grant with @RAIL to help the hearing and speech-impaired access healthcare using machine learning.

Nov
2021

🏆 I won first prize and first place in the Ai4G (AI for Good) workshop organized by Technical University of Munich and KNUST.

Projects

I build impactful and efficient software systems to deliver social good. Here are a few of my most recent projects.

SignTalk - Sign Language Translation

SignTalk is sign language translation system that allows deaf and dumb patients to communicate effectively with their doctors by using the power of computer vision and deep learning. It is capable of both translation of speech-to-sign-language and sign-language-to-speech.

Healthcare acccessibility Map App

The healthcare accessibility map app computes the approximate travel time from every point to the nearest hospital (darker is longer) in Ghana.

Nonprofit Finder

This project connects donors and grantmakers to non-profit organizations. A platform to list verified NGOs/non-profit organizations in Ghana. The ultimate goals of this project is to verify NGOs operating in Ghana, expose verified NGOs to donors and volunteers looking, give donors/individuals conducting due diligence on a non-profit organization a way to do so seamlessly on the platform

English-Twi Translator

Twi translator is a machine translation app that generates translations of never-before-seen real-world input sentences from English to Twi. I implemented the model from scratch by training a sequence-to-sequence transformer in Python

Heart MRI Image Segmentation

The aim of this project is to build a predictive model that could classify each pixel in a cardiac MRI image based on whether the pixel is a part of the left ventricle (LV) or not. In medical imagery analysis it is often important to separate the pixels corresponding to different types of tissue, blood or abnormal cells so that we can isolate a particular organ. In this project I used the TensorFlow machine learning framework to train and evaluate an image segmentation network using a medical imagery dataset.

Land-Cover-Classification

This project introduces an example of a supervised land cover classification with Sentinel-2 data. The aim is to classify a Sentinel-2 image into four different land cover classes: water surfaces, artificial surfaces, low vegetation and tree cover.

Local Library Website

This platform manages the catalog for a local library. The website provides an online catalog for a small local library, where users can browse available books, reserve books and manage their accounts

Ultrasonic Digital distance meter

Digital distance meter is a non-contact distance measurement app thats uses an ultrasonic sensor to measure the distance of target objects. The sensor data is sent over a realtime database which is then accessed and displayed by the app

Teaching & Leadership

In addition to research and building impactful projects, I am passionate about education and leadership, and strive to help and empower others to excel in their own pursuits.

Google Developer Student Clubs, Campus Lead

Organized and led 2-hour weekly sessions for 240+ college students that focused on exposure to programming through in-person events, study jams and hackathons

College of Science, School of Groups, Lead

Bridging the gap between theory and practice for students through weekly workshops and hackathons.

YouTube, Content Creator

I make videos on Youtube on topics that interest me, from Algorithms to AI to astrophotography

Google Explore ML, Facilitator

Teaching Machine Learning to members in my community and beyond, through high-impact workshops.

TechElevate, Instructor & Mentor 2021-Present

Offering programming workshops and mentorship to aspiring developers and students in Ghana, Africa.

HuggingFace, Student Ambassador

Teaching open-source machine learning to people from all kinds of backgrounds and showing my campus community how to build ML models with HuggingFace

Entrepreneurship

I am passionate about bringing breakthrough technological innovations that I create into the world, in order to positively impact our society and move humanity forward.

Chronos Health

A dedicated real-time engagement platform and remote patient monitoring mobile app that connects community health workers to health experts for medical advice and help doctors diagnose, treat and give proper medical advice to seniors, pregnant women, and mothers.

TekMart

Empowering student business owners to make and showcase their products using technology

Publications

New publications coming soon !

Press

A collection of some of the news articles, TV interviews, and documentaries about my work