Remote Sensing and Climate Center.

Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute
Ghana Atomic Energy Commission
Accra

University of Towson

PhD Candidate (Information Technology)

University of Towson

March, 2024 - 2028

University of the People

BSc. Computer Science

Online

September, 2023 - Present

CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School

Certificate in Research Data Science

ICTP

July 11 - July 22, 2022

Modules

Duke University

Certificate in Data Analysis with R

Coursera

November, 2020 - December, 2021

Modules

• Introduction to Data and Probability in R Full content of this course can be found HERE
• Inferential Statistics. Full Content of this course can be found HERE
• Linear Regression and Modelling Full content of this course can be found HERE

Johns Hopkins University

Certificate in Data Science: Foundations using R

Coursera

August, 2020 - October, 2020

Modules

• The Data Scientist Toolbox. Full content can be found HERE
• R-Programming. Full content can be found HERE
• Getting and Cleaning Data. Full content can be found HERE
• Exploratory Data Analysis. Full content can be found HERE
• Reproducible Research. Full content can be found HERE

University of Cape Coast

BSc. Geography and Regional Planning
Major:Physical Geography

Cape Coast

September, 2012 - May 2016

Data Camp

Machine Learning Scientist with R

Data Camp

January 2023 - Present

Modules

• Supervised Learning with R: Regression. Full Content can be found HERE
  
• Unsupervised Learning
  
• Support Vector Machines
  
• Cluster Analysis
  
• Bayesian Statistics
  
• Hyper-parameter Tuning
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Data Camp

Spatial Data with R

Data Camp

January 2023 - February 2023

Modules

• Visualizing Geospatial Data with R. Full Content can be found HERE
• Spatial Analysis with sf and raster in R. Full Content can be found HERE

Module under completion

• Spatial Statistics with R

Data Camp

Certificate: Optimizing R code with C++.

Data Camp

July, 2022

Data Camp

Certificate: Command Line Data Processing and Shell Scripting

Data Camp

September, 2021 - October, 2021

Module

• Introduction to shell. Full Content can be found HERE.
• Introduction to Bash Scripting. Full Content can be found HERE.
• Data Processing on the command line. Full Content can be found HERE.
• Introduction to Git. Full Content can be found HERE

Data Camp

Certificate: Big Data with R Track

Data Camp

March, 2021 - July, 2021

Modules

• Writting Efficient R Code. Full Content can be found HERE
• Visualizing Big Data With Trelliscope in R. Full Content can be found HERE
• Scalabe Data Processing in R. Full Content can be found HERE.
• Introduction to Spark with Sparklyr. Full Content can be found HERE.
• Parallel Programming in R. Full Content can be found HERE.

Google Earth Engiine

Certificate in Complete Google Earth Engine for Remote Sensing and GIS

Udemy

January, 2021

Modules

Full content of this course can be found HERE

Google Earth Engiine (Big Geodata)

Certificate in Google Earth Engine for Remote Sensing Master Class

Udemy

January, 2021

Modules

Full content of this course can be found HERE

1

Validation of SMOS Satellite Soil Moisture Estimates using capacitance probes over the different ecological zones in Northern Ghana

IntecOpen Journal

2023

2

Location, biophysical and agronomic parameters for croplands in Northern Ghana

Copernicus Publications

2022

Drought Characteristics Over Ghana and its Ocean-Atmosphere Teleconnections. br/>

Current

Ghana

2022

Modelling the relationship between the interannual-variability of Temperature in Ghana and AMO, TNA and TSA Tropical Indices. br/>

Current

Ghana

2023

Digitalization of Climatological Paper Archives in Ghana

Consultancy Service to support the Ghana Meteorololigcal Agency in Digitizing Climatological Paper Archives in Ghana

Ghana

May, 2023 - August, 2023

Role - Junior Scientist (Data Analyst): Responsible for the profiling of the Rainfall and Temperature climate data archive of Ghana.

Newton Prize: Pioneering Crop Monitoring For Food Security

A Collaboration between University College London, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute

Northern Region, Ghana

August 2021 - March, 2022

Task

• GPS mapping of Crop Farms in the Northern Region of Ghana for estimating Crop yield
• Chlorophyll Concentration measurement of Maize Crops
• Leaf Area Index measurement of Maize Crops
• Maize Yield Measurement

Field data collection & initial exploration of Crop type information to build Crop type map of Ghana.

Collaboration between the University of Leicester and Ghana Space and Technology Institute

Northern Region, Ghana

December , 2020

Research Technologist

Remote Sensing and Climate Center
Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute

Ghana Atomic Energy Commission

September, 2019 - Present

Roles

• Providing support research at the Remote Sensing and Climate Center of the Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute through the analyses of Climate and satellite data
  data using Google Earth Engine and QGIS.
• I am part of the team responsible for training staff and personnel in data analytics using R in corporate and academic institutions
  
• Training interns, National service persons and sometimes colleagues in using the R language for Data Science and Analytics
  

Research Technologist (Intern)

Remote Sensing and Climate Center
Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute

Ghana Atomic Energy Commission

May, 2018 - August, 2019

Roles

• Provided support for research at the Remote Sensing and Climate Center with meteorological data analysis using R
  
• trained Students and interns on using R for Data Science and analytics
  
• Air quality monitoring and measurement in the selected areas in the Greater Accra region of Ghana
  

Undergraduate Teaching and Research Assistant

Department of Geography and Regional Planning

University of Cape Coast

September, 2016 - August, 2017

Roles

• conducted tutorials for undergraduate students on Climatology, Hydrology and Introduction to Earth Science
  
• supported researchers at the Department with data collection and analysis
  

Programme for center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) Computer Training for Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy

Theme: An Introductory Scientific Computing Programming Schools for Science and Engineering Students who wish to advance their skills in Linux and Python

Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute

April, 2019 - May, 2019

NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training on:

• Remote Sensing of Drought
  
• Reanalysis of Satellite Data for Extreme Climatic Events
  

ARSET

PyCon Ghana

A recurring annual conference of python developers from software engineering, data science and engineering and scientific research.

Kofi Annan ICT Center, Accra

October 13 - October 15, 2022

Ghana Data Science Summit (Indaba X)

A summit of selected Data Science and AI practitioners across the Country irrespective of tools and technologies one may use. The summit showcases research, emerging tools, technologies, and techniques in the field of Data and Artificial Intelligence.

Academic city University College, Accra

September 21 - September 23, 2022

Rstudio Conference 2022

An recurring annual convention of Data Science and AI practitioners worldwide to divulge and discuss current issues and trends in the industry and showcase new developments in the field. Although it is a gathering of R users and enthusiasts, it attracts, users of tools such as python and Julia and any other in the data Space.

Washington D.C

July 25 - July 28, 2022

Diversity Scholarship, awarded by POSIT(formerly RStudio)

Awarded this scholarship to attend the 2022 RStudio Conference in Maryland, USA.

Washington D.C

July 25 - July 28, 2022 …