Uyi Stewart

Two decades experience in strategy, technical program delivery, innovation, data science (machine learning, artificial intelligence), human centered design, and digital solutions. A deep fascination with innovation and science, and an unrelenting tenacity and passion for implementing real world solutions for sustainable outcomes and impact. Career Overview: 15 US patents; 65+ publications in linguistics, data mining, speech recognition, NLP, machine translation, user experience design ; deployed 100+ innovative digital and analytics solutions in use across Africa, India, and USA; delivered 5 major & international startup (greenfield) initiatives, including my pioneering work to bring reverse innovation into Africa, as the co-founder of IBM Research - Africa Lab (the first commercial innovation and research lab in the continent); champion for localization of AI & Innovation Hubs for last mile delivery and adaptive ecosystems