I'm Cedric Mutesa. I study Artificial Intelligence at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and research speech recognition and language models for low-resource languages, starting with Kinyarwanda. That work is in progress. Notes from the lab are on the research page.
I started at Rwanda Coding Academy in 2021. In the 2023–2024 Advanced Level national examinations I placed first in Rwanda in ICT and Multimedia. As frontend developer and team lead at the Ministry of Health, I led frontend development of the Rwanda Health Integrated Insurances Portal, now deployed across 190+ facilities, and continued that work as a software engineer at Global Kwik Koders. I have also worked as a software engineer at ReFeel and at ZenX, where I led development of ZenOTC. At PivotAccess, which builds banking and payment systems, I was a full-stack developer intern on Tekana, used by the Rwanda National Police. At HKUST I'm on the mobile team behind USThing, the campus app, which has more than 10,000 users.