Dr. Jeffrey Otoibhi

Dr. Jeffrey Otoibhi

Medical Doctor | AI Researcher & Engineer

I am a seasoned AI Expert and Medical Doctor with six years of experience in AI, ML and innovation. Led the development of Nigeria's first foundational decoder-only language model and contributed to 7+ AI research projects. Passionate about leveraging AI and robotics to transform healthcare.

Location

Lagos, Nigeria

About Me

I am a Medical Doctor and AI Expert with a passion for merging the worlds of healthcare and artificial intelligence. With a robust 6-year track record, I have delivered innovative AI solutions across various domains, including audio processing, computer vision, and natural language processing.

As the lead Engineer and Researcher behind SabiYarn, Nigeria's first LLM capable of text generation in multiple Nigerian languages, I am committed to pushing the boundaries of AI for meaningful societal impact.

My technical proficiency in end-to-end LLM development, including RLHF, allows me to identify challenges and develop trustworthy, compliant technological solutions. I am particularly focused on creating robust, scalable, and ethically-responsible AI that transforms healthcare delivery and preserves cultural diversity through language technology.

My long-term vision lies in the integration of AI, robotics, and nanotechnology to transform healthcare delivery globally.

AISHA

AI Engineer

Present

  • Boosted LLM output quality by 20% while cutting prompt length by 88% through a clinical evaluation of 200+ user dialogues.
  • Engineered an agentic data pipeline for real-time conversation analysis, enabling automated health insights and dynamic visualization.
  • Led the development of an automated "LLM-as-a-judge" framework to evaluate safety, triage accuracy, empathy, and cultural alignment.
  • Optimized system architecture to enhance functionality and healthcare assistant reliability.
  • Integrated clinical data governance with AI engineering to ensure safe, high-quality, and validated triage protocols.

Above Health

AI Engineer

Present

  • Designed and deployed a clinical AI system integrated with EHR via FHIR, featuring context-aware history and agentic appointment orchestration for a live healthcare environment.
  • Developed automated evaluation frameworks (including LLM-as-a-judge) to mitigate hallucinations and ensure factual accuracy, prioritizing clinical safety at scale.

Omali

Head of Artificial Intelligence

Since January 2025

Lagos, Nigeria

  • Responsible for designing and evaluating an AI-powered dermatology diagnostic system tailored to analyze skin images and handle workflows, providing:
    • Diagnosis of dermatological conditions and possible home remedies.
    • Scheduling appointments and handling payment systems

Aletheia Research Lab

Chief AI Scientist - SabiYarn-125M Foundational LM

Since November 2023

Lagos

  • Led the development of Nigeria's first decoder-only foundational language model supporting multiple Nigerian languages (Train loss- 2.5, Val loss-2.86).
  • Outperformed GPT-4 by 48% and LLaMA2-13B by 259% on average across Nigerian language benchmarks for downstream tasks.

Sienna Analytics Consulting

AI Engineer, LLM & Generative AI

October 2023 - February 2024

Lagos

  • Designed, developed and deployed advanced AI chatbot systems seamlessly integrating them into the business applications for 4 clients.
  • Employed strategic prompt engineering approaches improving AI responses (correctness and hallucinations) by 25%.
  • Reduced AI application latency by 15% through optimized features.
  • Provided technical support to over 20 client teams with a 95% resolution rate.

Freelance

AI Engineer / Researcher

Since September 2019 · Remote

  • Distributed LLM Pre-training (Bittensor): Continuous pre-training of GPT-NeoX-20B and GPT-J-6B on the Bittensor dataset using DeepSpeed ZeRO-3 across multi-node GPU clusters. Achieved a final cross-entropy loss of 1.89 (6.62 PPL), boosting TAO token earnings by 15%.
  • RAG-Powered Customer Support Chatbot: Designed and deployed high-throughput RAG systems using VectorDB and GPT4All, improving response accuracy by 30% and resolving 10% of inquiries in real-time.
  • AI-Driven Traffic & Accident Event Analysis Engine: Engineered a complex vision-language system (VideoViT, CNN-LSTM, Gemini 2.5 Pro, GPT-4o) for accident classification and narrative generation, improving baseline accuracy by over 20%.
  • Multi-Modal Clinical Depression Detection (DAIC-WOZ): Prediction of clinical depression using speech and text. Accuracy: 82%, Precision: 0.69, Recall: 0.70, F1: 0.63.
  • SignSynth: Speech-to-Sign Language Translator: Built a multi-modal pipeline using Transformers for pose generation and U-Nets for sign language image synthesis (SSIM: 0.9478, MAE: 0.04).
  • Adversarial Network Packet Generation: Developed a novel LSTM-based model to generate 350,000 unique adversarial network packets (IP + TCP) for proactive security vulnerability testing.
  • Automatic Post-Edit (APE) Translator with Real-time Adaptation: Designed a language translator with real-time adaptation, achieving BLEU-4: 0.43, TER: 0.66 for domain-specific text.
  • BERT-Based Appliance Repair Assistant: Created and integrated a BERT-based system via a scalable REST API for appliance repair recommendations, reducing human support needs and improving first-time fix rates.
  • Neuronal Response Prediction (Macaque V4): Designed a CNN Core + attention readout model for predicting neuronal responses to excitable images. Correlation score: 0.27.

Tunu AI

Principal Engineer

Present

Remote

  • Leading the development of an AI-powered mental health support platform.
  • Designing and implementing advanced dialogue systems for therapeutic interactions.
  • Developing monitoring and progress tracking features for mental health support.

My Philosophy

"I believe AI has the power to revolutionize healthcare and society. My goal is to build AI systems that enhance patient treatment, monitoring, and rehabilitation—and I won't stop until this vision is realized. The integration of AI, robotics, and nanotechnology represents the next frontier in medicine, and I am committed to being at the forefront of this transformation."

Personal Interests

RoboticsHealthcareCryptocurrencyFinanceBasketballEconomicsChessFitness

Get in Touch

I'm always open to collaboration, research opportunities, and discussions about AI, healthcare, and technology. Whether you have a project in mind or just want to connect, feel free to reach out!