Afolabi Faruq

AI/ML engineer and published clinical AI researcher with a demonstrable record of shipping production systems that handle millions of records and serve hundreds of thousands of users across Africa. Peer-reviewed work accepted at MICCAI 2026, ICML 2026, AIMed 2026, EUVIP 2026, and the UNILAG Faculty of Life Sciences Conference 2026. Founder of AI4Africa which is a pan-African research and education community with 600+ trained practitioners across two continents. Speaker at international developer events including the Global Power Platform & Agent Bootcamp 2026 (recipient of the Community Impact: Speaker Badge). Core specialisms: medical imaging AI, fairness-aware deep learning, agentic AI automation, TinyML for edge deployment, and multilingual African NLP. Proven track record translating frontier research into measurable real-world impact across healthcare, agriculture, enterprise, and national security.