Ahonakpon Guy
Gbaguidi

M.S. student in Engineering Artificial Intelligence at CMU-Africa

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I am Guy Gbaguidi, a software engineer and AI researcher from Benin. I am pursuing an M.S. in Engineering Artificial Intelligence at Carnegie Mellon University Africa in Kigali.

My research interests include robot perception, robot reasoning, human–robot interaction, and the reliability of AI systems used in Africa. I earned a B.Sc. in Software Engineering from the University of Abomey-Calavi as a Mastercard Foundation Scholar. My undergraduate research examined forecasting and energy-supply optimization for telecommunications sites. This work resulted in a first-author publication.

I develop systems that account for limits in available data and computing resources. I also mentor university robotics teams and help organize events for AI and data science professionals in Benin.

Research collaboration: I am seeking faculty advising and research projects in robotics. I am also available for software engineering projects. Please contact me by email if you would like to discuss related work.

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News

  1. Completed the English Enhancement Program at Carnegie Mellon University Africa.

  2. Published first-author research on machine learning-driven energy optimization for sustainable telecommunications.

  3. Received provisional acceptance for the IMPACT 2026 conference proceedings.

  4. Placed third in the ANIP Benin Kaggle Challenge for facial analysis, age estimation, and OCR.

  5. Joined Deep Learning Indaba in Kigali as a fully funded participant and poster judge.

  6. Began mentoring university robotics teams through the TEKBOT Robotics Challenge.

  7. Graduated from the University of Abomey-Calavi with First Class Honours in Software Engineering.

Research

Robotics · AI reliability · optimization

First-author publication · March 2026

Machine Learning-Driven Energy Optimization for Sustainable Telecommunications: A Multi-Algorithm Benchmark

Ahonakpon Guy Gbaguidi and Eugène C. Ezin

DMPedia Lecture Notes in Multidisciplinary Research, International Conference on Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Advanced Computing and Technology (IMPACT) 2026, pp. 419–429. The conference was held online on January 10–11, 2026, and was organized by the Department of Information Technology at G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Uttarakhand, India.

ForecastingMulti-objective optimizationGreen telecom
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Selected projects

Research projects and software

Computer vision · November 2025

Facial analysis, age estimation, and OCR

I developed computer vision models for a national government technology competition. The models performed facial analysis, age estimation, and text extraction from scanned documents. The project placed third in the ANIP Benin Kaggle Challenge.

PyTorchComputer visionOCR

Robotics mentoring · March 2025–January 2026

TEKBOT Robotics Challenge

I led and mentored the UCAO-TECH team. I also advised university teams from Benin and neighboring countries on ROS, computer vision, system integration, testing, and technical documentation.

ROSMentoringSystems integration

Game AI · November 2022

Morabaraba game-playing agent

I co-developed a Python agent that uses minimax search. The agent selects a defensive, winning, or catching strategy based on the game state. The project won first place in the Mify Artificial Intelligence Contest.

PythonMinimaxSearch
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Experience

M.S. in Engineering Artificial Intelligence

Carnegie Mellon University Africa · Kigali, Rwanda

Robotics Mentor

TEKBOT Robotics · UCAO-TECH

Mentored teams in ROS, computer vision, software engineering, system integration, and testing.

Full-Stack Developer, Backend and AI

PhytoV · Cotonou, Benin

Developed APIs and data services using FastAPI, PostgreSQL, React, and AWS. Integrated language models into REST APIs with more than 90% test coverage.

Undergraduate Researcher

University of Abomey-Calavi · IFRI

Developed forecasting and optimization methods for telecommunications sites powered by solar, grid, diesel, and battery sources.

Backend Software & Data Engineer Intern

Rintio · Cotonou, Benin

Processed travel data using Spark and MinIO. Developed a FastAPI authentication service with JWT and 97% test coverage.

Technical skills

Robotics & AI

ROS, computer vision, reinforcement learning, robot perception, search-based reasoning

Machine learning

PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, JAX, AutoGluon, Hugging Face

Engineering

Python, C/C++, SQL, JavaScript, FastAPI, React, Docker, AWS

Data & systems

PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Spark, Linux, Git, Elasticsearch

Community

I serve as Co-Lead of the iSHEERO Events Commission. I am also a Baobab Platform Ambassador for more than 300 Mastercard Foundation Scholars in Benin and a Student Award Leader for the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award.

I was a Millennium Fellow and Global Admissions Reviewer. I led a campus project on plastic waste and reviewed 57 university applications from Africa, Europe, and Asia.

Contact

I welcome questions about my research and software engineering work.

agbaguid@andrew.cmu.edu ↗ Personal: guygbaguidi123root@gmail.com ↗