// computer vision · explainable ai

Tertius
Adjaoke

Data Scientist & ML Researcher

I build machine learning systems that don't just perform well — they explain themselves. My research probes what Vision Transformers actually see; my applied work turns that same rigor into churn models, fraud detectors, and recommendation engines that ship.

Publications
02
ML systems shipped
03+
MSc GPA
4.38 / 5
Portrait of Tertius Adjaoke
role: ml researcher
focus: computer vision · xai
status: open to opportunities

model output, not a filter — see Research

// about

The person behind the models

I'm a computer science graduate from Benin working at the intersection of applied machine learning and explainability research.

My path runs through applied ML research at Covenant University in Nigeria and real-world data projects that bridge theory with impact. That combination shows up in everything I build: research questions grounded in production concerns, and production systems held to research-grade standards of evaluation.

My published work spans explainability methods for Vision Transformers and bibliometric analysis of machine learning benchmarks — two ends of the same question: can we trust what a model tells us, and can we trust what the field says about itself?

Outside research, I build end-to-end pipelines that work: predicting customer churn, detecting fraud, recommending content — always aiming for systems that are accurate, interpretable, and actionable.

🇬🇧 English — Advanced 🇫🇷 French — Native

// skills

What I work with

Languages

  • Python
  • SQL / MySQL
  • Java
  • C / C++

ML & Deep Learning

  • Scikit-learn
  • PyTorch
  • Pandas / NumPy
  • Matplotlib & visualization

Computer Vision & XAI

  • Vision Transformers
  • Perturbation-based explainability
  • Robustness evaluation (insertion / deletion / max-sensitivity)
  • Model interpretability methods

Tools & Platforms

  • Streamlit
  • Git / GitHub
  • Microsoft Excel

Mathematics

  • Statistics & probability
  • Linear algebra
  • Optimization
  • ML algorithms

Certifications

  • Certificate of Presentation — ICIIP 2025, Jaypee University
  • Professional Foundations — ALX Africa
  • Python Programming Immersive — Udemy
  • Online Leadership Course — Aspire Institute

// projects

Things I've built

PythonScikit-learnStreamlit

Telecom Customer Churn Prediction

End-to-end ML application predicting customer churn in the telecom sector. Covers preprocessing, feature engineering, and classification models (logistic regression, random forest), evaluated with ROC-AUC on imbalanced data and served through a real-time Streamlit dashboard.

View on GitHub
PythonRandom ForestStreamlit

Telecom Fraud Detection System

ML system detecting fraudulent telecom transactions from behavioral and call-pattern features. A modular pipeline from data ingestion to deployment, with a Streamlit interface for real-time fraud prediction and decision support.

View on GitHub
PythonNLPCosine Similarity

Udemy Course Recommendation App

Content-based recommendation engine using cosine similarity over vectorized text features. Applies vector space models and information-retrieval fundamentals through an interactive Streamlit interface.

View on GitHub

// research

Published work

2026
Conference Paper

Explaining Vision Transformers with Perturbation-Based XAI: A Study on Robustness to Blurry and Noisy Images

International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP) — Jaypee University

Investigates the robustness and fidelity of explainability methods for Vision Transformers under image degradation, using perturbation-based evaluation metrics including insertion, deletion, and max-sensitivity.

Read the paper
2025
Journal Paper

A Bibliometric Analysis of Benchmark Datasets in Machine Learning Research: Insights from Scopus (2001–2024)

NIPES — Journal of Science and Technology Research

A large-scale bibliometric and trend analysis of benchmark datasets in machine learning research, examining usage patterns, citation impact, and the field's evolution through statistical and data-driven methods.

Read the paper

// experience & education

The timeline

  1. 2025 — Present

    ALX Data Science Program

    Intensive training program in data science and machine learning.

  2. 2023 — 2025

    MSc Computer Science

    Covenant University, Nigeria · GPA 4.38 / 5

  3. 2018 — 2022

    BSc Computer Science

    University of Abomey-Calavi (IMSP) · GPA 3.5 / 5

// contact

Let's work together

I'm open to data science roles, research collaborations, and freelance ML projects. If you have a problem worth solving with data, let's talk.