Research Experience

Research Assistant, Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), UNC Chapel Hill (2022–Present)

• Developed Explainable Enrichment-Driven Graph Reasoner (EDGAR) for drug repurposing
• Built RELATE for relation extraction using LLMs and ontology constraints
• Collaborated on the NIH Biomedical Data Translator project: ingested data from structured and unstructured sources through

Research Assistant, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria (2020–2021)

• Implemented data-driven clustering algorithms for student behavioral analysis and performance prediction

Technologies: Python, Neo4j, NetworkX, PyTorch, TensorFlow

Publications

Up-to-date publications available on Google Scholar

Poster Presentations

• Enhancing KG Augmentation, Doctoral Forum, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM25), Virginia
• Enhancing Knowledge Graph Inference through Enrichment and Grouping, Data Science Day, School of Data Science and Society, UNC Chapel Hill, USA
• Information Extraction for Graph Generation & Inference (A Case Study of COVID-19 KG) Computing Research Association-Widening Participation CRA-WP) Grad Cohort for Women, San Francisco, USA
• Deep Neural Network-Based Approach to Skin Cancer Classification, 2nd Black in AI Workshop, NeurIPS 2018, Montreal, Canada

Student Mentorship

Co-supervised five undergraduate research projects in Data Mining and Machine Learning

Undergraduate Project Outcome(s):

• Abdulquadri Adegbiji: classification of chronic kidney diseases