Senior AI Engineer · Kumasi, Ghana

Manuel Bobie Amankwatia

PMP®·Founder, DataMastaros Ltd·AI Researcher

I design and deploy enterprise-grade machine learning systems — NLP, computer vision, and multimodal AI. Published at SPIE; and paper accepted for the NLP4Science Workshop at EMNLP 2024. Presented at Deep Learning Indaba. Secured $27,000 in research grants. Actively seeking remote & onsite AI/ML roles and PhD opportunities worldwide, with a preference for the USA and Canada.

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7+
Years experience
14+
Live AI apps
9+
Research papers
500+
Engineers mentored
$27k
Research grants
Manuel Bobie Amankwatia
Manuel Bobie Amankwatia
Chief AI Officer · DataMastaros
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Open to work
Who I am

AI researcher.
Engineer. Founder.

Manuel Bobie Amankwatia
Manuel Bobie Amankwatia

I am a Senior AI/ML Engineer & Data Scientist and PMP®-certified project manager with deep expertise in designing intelligent systems that remain reliable under real-world conditions — noisy data, low-resource environments, and production-scale pressure.

My research challenges a central assumption in AI: that higher benchmark accuracy reflects genuine progress. I study reliability and representation theory in neural NLP, formalising the Golden Draw Effect and using functional decomposition to explain how hybrid representations govern robustness.

As Founder & Chief AI Officer of DataMastaros Limited, I translate AI research into practical solutions for businesses across Ghana and beyond. I have presented at Indaba X, Deep Learning Indaba, and SPIE, and serve as a peer reviewer for EMNLP MRL 2025 and SACAIR 2024.

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Education
MSc, Project Management
KNUST · 2025 – 2026
Distinction · AI-Driven Project Management for Real Estate Startups
MPhil, Electrical & Computer Engineering
KNUST · 2020 – 2022 · AI & Robotics
Distinction · Dual-Input CNN for Intent Classification
BSc, Engineering Physics
University of Cape Coast · 2013 – 2017
Electrical track
Technical depth

What I build with

Full-stack AI engineering — from raw data to deployed models, BI dashboards, and explainable systems.

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ML & Deep Learning
PyTorchTensorFlowKerasScikit-learnXGBoostHuggingFace
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NLP & LLMs
TransformersBERT/RoBERTaFinBERTLangChainRAGFAISS
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Computer Vision
OpenCVViTYOLOv8SAMStable DiffusionSVM
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XAI & Research Methods
SHAPLIMEfsQCANCASEMAblation Studies
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Data Engineering & BI
PythonSQLRPower BITableauAWS
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Deployment & MLOps
HF SpacesStreamlitGradioDockerGitHub PagesPMP®
Career

7+ years building
intelligent systems

June 2024 – Present
Founder & Chief AI Officer
DataMastaros Limited · Ghana
  • Founded and scaled an AI & data consulting firm delivering ML solutions across real estate, finance, and energy sectors.
  • Secured $25,000 AWS Activate grant and $2,000 Cohere AI research credits.
  • Architected NLP pipelines, predictive analytics, and automation products; led cross-functional teams from ideation to production.
Feb 2023 – Present
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Turing (Remote) · United States
  • Engineered scalable AI systems, reducing delivery timelines by 25% and maintaining 99% data integrity across production ML pipelines.
  • Integrated AI research into client systems, contributing to 20% efficiency gains and 15% revenue uplift.
  • 3+ years of reliable high-output remote delivery across distributed international teams.
June 2018 – Present
Data Scientist / Senior Programmer
Softmasters Company Ltd. (Accra) · Part-Time
  • Engineered ML algorithms improving predictive accuracy by 35%.
  • Built scalable database architectures improving data retrieval by 40%.
  • Mentored 15+ junior engineers, accelerating team delivery by 50%.
2022 – 2023
Teaching Assistant & Lab Instructor
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, KNUST · Kumasi, Ghana
  • Delivered lab instruction for undergraduate AI and programming modules alongside faculty.
Aug 2021 – Jan 2023
Electronics / Robotics / AI Engineer
Innovation Lab, KNUST · Kumasi, Ghana
  • Spearheaded robotics and AI projects bridging academic research with applied engineering.
  • Mentored 500+ junior engineers and tech students.
Summers 2014 – 2016
Engineering Intern
Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCO) · Kumasi, Ghana
  • Three rotations across Telecommunications, Electrical & Maintenance Engineering on Ghana's national power grid.
Live AI apps · huggingface.co/SirBobb

Many deployed
AI applications

Every project is live, publicly accessible, and built end-to-end — model training to production UI.

Computer VisionViT
DermaScan
ViT fine-tuned on HAM10000 for 7-class skin lesion classification. Handles severe class imbalance via WeightedRandomSampler and class-weighted loss. Full medical disclaimer UI.
ViT-base · PyTorch · HAM10000 · Streamlit
↗ Live demo
Computer VisionYOLOv8
DetectX
Real-time object detector on 80 COCO classes. Custom bounding-box renderer, detection table, and annotated image download.
YOLOv8 · Ultralytics · Pillow · Streamlit
↗ Live demo
Medical ImagingSAM
MedSAM
Interactive medical image segmentation using Meta's SAM. Click to segment X-rays, MRI slices, and histology with multi-region mask overlay.
SAM (sam-vit-base) · Transformers · Gradio
↗ Live demo
RAGNLP
DocuMind
Multilingual RAG chatbot — upload any PDF, ask in any language. FAISS vector search, multilingual embeddings, streaming responses with source citations.
FAISS · sentence-transformers · Zephyr-7B · HF API
↗ Live demo
AudioNLP
EchoBrief
Two-model pipeline: Whisper transcribes speech, BART summarises. Sequential GPU memory management — each model freed before the next loads.
OpenAI Whisper · BART · pydub · Streamlit
↗ Live demo
Time SeriesLSTM
PulseStock
LSTM stock forecaster trained live in-browser. Fetches real price history, trains a 2-layer PyTorch LSTM with streaming log, forecasts N days with confidence bands.
PyTorch · yfinance · Plotly · Streamlit
↗ Live demo
Generative AISDXL
PixelForge
Text-to-image generator using Stable Diffusion XL via HF Inference API. 8 style presets, 5 aspect ratios. No GPU required.
SDXL · HF Inference API · Streamlit
↗ Live demo
NLPClassification
VerifAI · FitScore · EmoDetect
Three NLP classifiers: RoBERTa fake news detector, sentence-transformer resume-job matcher with FAISS keyword analysis, DistilBERT 6-class emotion detector.
RoBERTa · sentence-transformers · DistilBERT · FAISS
↗ View all on HF
NLPFinance
Hilbot Financial Intent Classifier
Novel benchmark (1,525 samples, 33 classes) for financial intent classification. Hybrid model outperformed DistilBERT, RoBERTa, and FinBERT by up to 11.6 percentage points. Accepted EMNLP 2024.
HilbotFI Benchmark · Hybrid CNN/LSTM · Transformers
↗ Live demo
Computer VisionRecognition
Public Figure Classifier
Public figure recognition engine using OpenCV, SVM, and RandomForest. Face image classification with high accuracy across multiple public figures.
OpenCV · SVM · RandomForest · HuggingFace
↗ Live demo
XAIPropTech
Ghana PropTech AI Constraint Analysis
Research app exploring which AI functions fail first in Ghanaian PropTech startups. SHAP-based explainability, mediated pathways analysis. Directly tied to ECAM paper under review.
SHAP · Gradient Boosting · fsQCA · Streamlit
↗ Live demo
XAIDecision Support
AI-PM Ghana PropTech Diagnostic
Explainable decision-support tool assessing AI readiness for Ghanaian real estate startups and generating actionable roadmaps. Gradient Boosting R² = 0.893. Tied to AI-PM-DES paper.
Gradient Boosting · SHAP · LIME · Streamlit
↗ Live demo
Academic work

9+ research papers —
published, accepted & under review

NLP, hybrid neural architectures, explainable AI, and AI adoption in emerging markets.

In-situ remote diagnostics on Theobroma cacao plants with a 3D-printed fluorescence lidar
SPIE Digital Library · Proc. Vol. 14105 · DOI: 10.1117/12.3100145 · Presented Strasbourg
Published
Hilbot: A Deep Learning and NLP-based Framework for Financial Analysis and Intent Classification
NLP4Science Workshop, EMNLP 2024 · Also presented Deep Learning Indaba, 2024
Accepted
Understanding Representation Interaction in Intent Classification: Functional Decomposition in Dual-Input CNNs
Target: Journal of Engineering Reports
Under review
The Golden Draw Effect: Instability of Peak Performance under Hyperparameter Optimization
Target: SN Computer Science
Under review
When Hybrid Models Outperform SOTA: A Data-Centric Benchmark of Financial Intent Classification under Low-Resource and Imbalanced Conditions
Target: International Journal of Intelligent Systems · Accepted: Deep Learning Indaba 2026
Under review
Strategic Enabler Configurations, Necessary Conditions, and Policy-Responsive AI Adoption in Ghanaian PropTech Startups: Evidence from fsQCA, NCA, and Counterfactual Simulation
Target: ECAM
Under review
AI Functional Constraints and Construction Project Performance in Emerging Markets: Mediated Pathways, Explainable Analytics, and Startup Typologies from Ghana
Target: ECAM
Under review
AI-PM-DES: An Explainable Decision-Support Framework for AI Adoption in Emerging-Market Real Estate Startups
Target: World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews
Under review
Stable Features, Gradual Failure: An Explainability Study of Robustness in Intent Classification
Under Review
Under review
Conference Presentations
2026Deep Learning Indaba 2026 (upcoming) — The Golden Draw Effect: Instability of Peak Performance under Hyperparameter Optimization (accepted)
2026SPIE Conference, Strasbourg — In-situ fluorescence lidar diagnostics on Theobroma cacao
2025IndabaX Ghana 2025 — Research presentation
2024Deep Learning Indaba, Dakar — Dual-Input CNNs for Intent Classification & Hilbot Financial Framework
2024IndabaX Ghana 2024 — Research presentation
2024NLP4Science Workshop, EMNLP 2024 — Hilbot: Financial Analysis & Intent Classification
$25,000
AWS Activate Startup Grant
DataMastaros Limited · 2024
$2,000
Cohere AI Research Credits
2024
Credentials

Certified &
continuously learning

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Project Management Professional (PMP®)
PMI · Valid to 2029
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Deep Learning Specialization
deeplearning.ai · 2023
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TensorFlow Developer Certificate
Google · 2023
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NLP Specialization
deeplearning.ai · 2023
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Cognitive PM in AI (CPMAI)™
PMI · May 2025
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GenAI for Project Managers
PMI · March 2025
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Google Data Analytics
Google · 2024
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Data Engineering with Python & SQL
IBM · 2023
70+ completed certifications across Coursera, Udemy, Google, PMI, IBM, Cisco, and AWS · Full list available on request
Community & Service

Active in the
global AI ecosystem

Deep Learning Indaba
Mentor · 2024 – Present
Zindi Africa
Ghana Ambassador · 2024 – Present
EMNLP MRL 2025
Peer Reviewer
SACAIR 2024
Reviewer & Programme Committee
Masakhane
Member · Pan-African NLP Research
Black in AI
Member
Let's talk

Open to the right
opportunity

Hiring manager, research lab, or founder who needs AI expertise — reach out.

I bring 7+ years of production AI experience, a research publication track record spanning SPIE and EMNLP, $27k in secured research grants, and the project management discipline of a PMP® — an unusual combination for a technical role and a genuine asset for PhD programmes looking for candidates who can both publish and ship.

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manuelamankwatia@gmail.com
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+233 548 066 655
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Kumasi, Ghana · Open to relocation worldwide, with a preference for the USA, Canada, Australia or Newzealand
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Currently open to

Remote AI/ML engineering roles — US or Canadian companies, any timezone
Onsite positions in the USA, Canada, Australia or Newzealand (open to relocation)
PhD programmes in AI, NLP, or Multimodal Learning
Research collaborations in NLP, low-resource AI, or XAI
AI consulting for startups and enterprises via DataMastaros Ltd