Folu Akintola

Research

Health data science, real-world evidence, machine learning, and reproducible research software.

Research Interests

  • Real-World Evidence, Real-World Data, and Observational Health Research
  • Reproducible Health Data Science Workflows
  • OMOP Common Data Model, OHDSI Tools, and Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Federated Learning, Privacy-Preserving ML, and Efficient Healthcare AI
  • Machine Learning for African Languages, Speech, and TTS
  • Time-Series Modelling and Financial Markets
  • Computer Vision for Geoscience and Healthcare Applications
  • MLOps and Production ML Systems

Research Profiles & Software

Projects & Collaborations

University of Oxford, NDORMS

Research Assistant in Health Data Science, contributing to projects involving real-world data, real-world evidence, observational health research, and reproducible health data workflows.

HDR UK & Newcastle University

Adaptive federated learning research for healthcare, focusing on privacy-preserving machine learning, Flower/Ray, model compression, and continual learning.

Alan Turing Institute & British Geological Survey

Geoscience computer vision research through the Alan Turing Institute Data Study Group, contributing to a final report with the British Geological Survey on applying machine learning to geological data analysis.

ToNative.org

Led development of ML-powered translation tools for English datasets into African languages including Yorùbá, Igbo, and Kinyarwanda.

See also: Projects