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Osei Brempong

Salt Lake City,UT

Summary

AI and Machine Learning Engineer with a strong background in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Robotic Systems. Proficient in Python, TensorFlow, and advanced AI frameworks, with expertise in model optimization, reinforcement learning, and scalable machine learning solutions. Skilled in deep learning architectures, deployment strategies, and MLOps for production-ready AI systems.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

AI Researcher

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
08.2022 - Current
  • Designed and deployed AI-powered conversational solutions, integrating Conversational AI, Agent Assist, and Co-Pilot AI, improving response accuracy by 35% and reducing user query resolution time through optimized AI-driven interactions.
  • Led research in NLP, reinforcement learning, and AI-driven automation, increasing chatbot efficiency by 40% and reducing customer handling time by 25%, leveraging techniques such as self-supervised learning, large language models (LLMs), and AI agentic workflows to enhance user engagement.
  • Took end-to-end ownership of AI/ML models, managing the entire lifecycle from data collection and labeling to training, inference, deployment, and scaling, ensuring AI solutions are robust and production-ready.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams in engineering, product, and professional services, reducing AI solution integration time by 30%, improving system scalability, and increasing AI adoption rates by 50%, while maintaining integrity, a strong work ethic, and an innovative, outside-the-box approach to solving AI challenges.

Deep Learning and NLP Researcher

Dalian Maritime University - Remote (Unpaid)
Dalian, China
09.2020 - 07.2022
  • Engineered Transformer-based architectures (BERT, GPT, T5) for named entity recognition (NER), text classification, and sentiment analysis, achieving state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on benchmark datasets.
  • Optimized sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) architectures for neural machine translation (NMT) and abstractive text summarization, implementing low-rank adaptation (LoRA), and quantization-aware training (QAT) to reduce inference latency by 20%.
  • Implemented machine learning algorithms such as random forests, and SVMs for predictive modeling and feature engineering, improving classification performance in real-world datasets.

Software Engineer

Uncle Fitter
Accra, Ghana
05.2017 - 08.2020

Developed and maintained scalable web and mobile applications with a focus on high availability, low latency,

and efficient memory management, leveraging React, React Native, and Flutter, ensuring 99.9% uptime and

sub-200ms response times.

Key achievements include improving app responsiveness by 30%, enhancing security with multi-factor

authentication (MFA) to reduce unauthorized access by 90%, and boosting service bookings by 35% with a Quick

Repair Request feature.

Integrated third-party APIs and payment gateways (Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay) with secure OAuth 2.0 & JWT

authentication, ensuring PCI-DSS compliance and reducing transaction failures by 20%

Data Analyst

NHIS Ghana
Accra, Ghana
09.2015 - 04.2017
  • Implemented robust data quality assurance protocols using SQL constraints, automated schema validation, and cross-region reconciliation scripts, ensuring 99% data consistency across distributed health information systems
  • Designed advanced analytics frameworks integrating Bayesian inference and time-series forecasting, impacting 10 or more key healthcare policies, and increasing decision-making speed by 30%.
  • Achieved a 35% reduction in query execution times by optimizing SQL queries and deploying effective indexing and partitioning strategies

Education

Master's Degree - Computer Science

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
12.2024

Master's degree - Information and Communication Engineering

Wuhan University of Technology
Wuhan, China
07.2015

Ph.D. - Computer Science

Dalian Maritime University
Dalian, China
02-2026

Skills

  • Machine Learning & Deep Learning – Experienced in neural networks, including CNNs, RNNs, Transformers, GANs, and Generative AI
  • Computer Vision – Skilled in image recognition, object detection, scene understanding, and Vision Transformers (ViTs), including Mask R-CNN
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP) – Proficient in large language models (LLMs) and transformer architectures such as BERT, GPT, and T5
  • Reinforcement Learning – Experienced in Deep Q-Networks (DQN), Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), Actor-Critic methods, and Multi-Agent RL
  • Data Engineering & Processing – Skilled in data cleaning, feature engineering, and ETL pipeline development
  • Programming & Frameworks – Proficient in Python, C , PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face
  • Cloud & Deployment: AWS
  • Explainable AI (XAI) – Knowledge of interpretability techniques such as SHAP, LIME, attention visualization, and fairness in AI
  • Research & Scientific Writing – Proficiency in conducting AI research, writing published academic papers

Affiliations

Research and publications in AI and deep learning

1. https://doi.org/10.1109/SNPD61259.2024.10673951, 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/SNPD61259.2024.10673918

3. https://easychair.org/publications/paper/VRd4/download

Timeline

AI Researcher

University of Utah
08.2022 - Current

Deep Learning and NLP Researcher

Dalian Maritime University - Remote (Unpaid)
09.2020 - 07.2022

Software Engineer

Uncle Fitter
05.2017 - 08.2020

Data Analyst

NHIS Ghana
09.2015 - 04.2017

Master's Degree - Computer Science

University of Utah

Master's degree - Information and Communication Engineering

Wuhan University of Technology

Ph.D. - Computer Science

Dalian Maritime University
Osei Brempong