Computing & AI
Dr K. Owusu
Senior Lecturer · Senior Lecturer in Applied AI
Biography
Dr Owusu builds applied machine learning systems for African languages and small-data environments. Before joining Southshore he led an ML team in fintech and contributed to open-source speech models for Twi and Ga.
- Appointed
- 2019
- Office hours
- Mon & Wed, 10:00–12:00
- Department
- Department of Computer Science & AI
- Pronouns
- he/him
- Years teaching
- 7
- Languages
- English, Twi, Ga
Teaching philosophy
Students learn AI best by shipping small systems that solve a real problem in their own language.
Research interests
- Low-resource NLP
- Speech recognition for African languages
- Responsible AI
Qualifications
- PhD Computer Science, KNUST
- MSc Machine Learning, UCL
- BSc Computer Engineering, KNUST
Courses taught
- CAI 305: Applied Machine Learning
- CAI 410: NLP for African Languages
- CAI 220: Data Structures
Selected publications
- Low-Resource Speech Models for Twi (2023)
- Open Benchmarks for Ga NLP (2022)
- Responsible AI in Fintech (2020)
Grants & funded projects
- African Speech Corpus — Lacuna Fund (2022–2024)
- Responsible AI Toolkit — Mozilla (2021)
Awards & honours
- Google Research Scholar Award (2022)
- Best Paper, AfricaNLP Workshop (2021)
Supervision
- 2 MPhil candidates in NLP
- Open to PhD applicants in low-resource speech
Media & talks
- Panelist, Deep Learning Indaba (2023)
- TechCabal feature (2022)
Academic profiles
- ORCID: 0000-0002-3456-7890
- Google Scholar: View profile
- Personal website: https://southshore.edu.gh/people/k-owusu
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-owusu
- Twitter / X: @kowusu_ai
- CV: Download PDF
Contact
- Email: k.owusu@southshore.edu.gh
- Phone: +233 30 123 4502
- Office: Block C, Room 118 · Computing & AI