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👋 Hi, I'm Omotayo Omoyemi

Educational Technologist | AI Researcher | Digital Innovator

🔬 MSc in Information Technology (University of Derby)

🔍 Passionate about inclusive technology, gesture recognition (Makaton), speech AI, and accessible learning tools.

📍 Based in the UK

🚀 Current Projects

  • 🔤 Makaton-to-English Translator: AI-powered sign language system using gesture recognition and deep learning
    📄 ACM Digital Library Publication

  • 🗣️ Apraxia of Speech Detection: Researching multimodal models and adversarial noise for robust speech diagnosis
    🔗 Live App

  • 🧠 TechWorld Academy: Led a 3-day IT program for 100+ youth in Nigeria

  • ✍️ freeCodeCamp Publication: Authored an article on How to Create a Real-Time Gesture-to-Text Translator Using Python and Mediapipe — published on freeCodeCamp’s Developer News
    📰 Read on freeCodeCamp

  • Featured in The Guardian: Highlighted for my work on predictive, multimodal AAC technology in the feature article “Predictive communication for all: The future of inclusive tech is here”
    📰 Read in The Guardian :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}

🧩 Open Source Contributions

💡 Major Projects

Project Contribution Status Link
Hugging Face Transformers Updated ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) examples to improve cross-platform reliability, dataset consistency, and onboarding experience. ✅ Merged PR #41027
spaCy (Explosion AI) Removed the outdated spaCy Quickstart course link from official documentation to protect users from spam redirects and maintain resource integrity. ✅ Merged PR #13877
Gradio (Hugging Face) Added a Vercel deployment template for the JS Client and linked it from the guide to streamline web deployment workflows for AI developers. 🕒 Under Review PR #12053
Mozilla Common Voice Improved documentation accessibility by updating Matrix community links and providing alternative connection methods for contributors. 🕒 Under Review PR #5081

🏆 Recognition & Community

  • 🧩 Global AI Delegate to the UK (GAFAI) – representing responsible AI initiatives.
  • 🗣️ Technical Author – FreeCodeCamp
  • 💪 Tech Volunteer and Mentor – AbilityNet • Codebar
  • 🎓 Conference Presenter – ICSIE 2024, Aarhus 2025, UKCI 2025

📜 Certifications & Memberships

  • 🎓 Google IT Support Certificate
  • 🤖 AI & Python Masterclass — Data Science Nigeria
  • 💼 MBCS — British Computer Society
  • ⚡ IEEE — Senior Level Member
  • 🏛 FRSA — Royal Society of Arts

🧑‍💻 Tech Stack & Tools

Python PyTorch OpenCV Flask SAS JavaScript MySQL

📊 GitHub Stats

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✨ Always learning. Always building. Always advocating for inclusive tech.

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  1. makaton-gesture-recognition makaton-gesture-recognition Public

    AI-powered tool that translates Makaton gestures into English using computer vision and assistive AI.

    Python 1

  2. aura-apraxia-aac aura-apraxia-aac Public

    AURA is an AI-powered prototype that helps individuals with apraxia of speech through adaptive therapy, gesture-to-speech AAC, and multimodal interaction tools.

    Python 1

  3. makaton-ai-companion makaton-ai-companion Public

    AI-powered Makaton symbol translator using Gemini API and local inference (Gemini Nano).

    JavaScript

  4. huggingface/transformers huggingface/transformers Public

    🤗 Transformers: the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning models in text, vision, audio, and multimodal models, for both inference and training.

    Python 156k 31.8k

  5. Makaton Makaton Public

    JavaScript

  6. transformer-gesture transformer-gesture Public

    Real-time gesture recognition system using Vision Transformers, ONNX, and Gradio. Includes dataset preparation, training, evaluation, and a browser-based demo app.

    Python 1