Introduction
Hi 👋 I'm a GIScience (GeoAI) PhD candidate in the Spatial Climate Solutions Lab at UC Santa Barbara, advised by David Lopez-Carr. I also hold an M.A. in Geography from UCSB, and I did my undergrad in Surveying and Geoinformatics at Obafemi Awolowo University.
I'm broadly interested in how LLM agents reason, and whether they respond to the right causes when they stand in for people in human–environment systems. I currently work on counterfactual evaluation of spatially grounded LLM agents, using wildfire evacuation as a testbed (SPARC-Evac). Before this, I worked on spatial automation for energy siting at Engie North America with Alex Irvine.
I'm happy to discuss collaboration, mentorship, and research in general. Feel free to email me for a virtual or in-person chat.
Awards & Scholarships
Featured Research
SPARC-Evac: Do LLM evacuation agents respond to the right cues?
Do LLM agents that simulate household evacuation respond to the right cues? Paired counterfactual tests in the January 2025 Eaton Fire, with an interactive demo of the idea. Full method and results coming with the paper. Watch this space.
Experience
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Research InternJun 2025 – Sep 2025Engie North America
- Built and maintained a competitor database of renewable-energy products in ArcGIS Enterprise to improve market analysis.
- Designed a generative-AI tool analyzing local opposition sentiment across U.S. counties and townships for early risk detection in siting.
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Student ResearcherSep 2022 – Mar 2025Move Lab, UC Santa Barbara
- Developed and validated a hybrid HMM–LSTM model improving trajectory-segmentation accuracy for animal-behavior classification.
- Modeled spatiotemporal tweet trajectories to study public movement during California wildfires, supporting disaster-response research.
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Research InternJun 2024 – Sep 2024Artificial Intelligence Institute of South Carolina
- Implemented neurosymbolic AI techniques for anomaly detection in smart systems, improving predictive reliability.
- Designed state-space models for stock-market forecasting with improved accuracy on large-scale financial datasets.
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Summer Research InternJun 2022 – Aug 2022Center for Spatiotemporal Thinking, Computing & Applications (STC)
- Evaluated Earth-based applications across multi-cloud platforms (AWS, NASA, Azure, Colab), optimizing deployment strategies.
- Enhanced the Satellite2 map application and tested multi-GPU performance on IBM AC922 systems.
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Research ScientistSep 2020 – Aug 2022Data Science Nigeria · funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Built a GAN-based dataset of 40,000 African fashion images to strengthen computer-vision benchmarks and cultural representation.
- Developed a speech-to-text model tuned for Nigerian-English intonation and medical terminology; created a YOLO-based retail-audit model for 500+ FMCG products.
Publications
- 01 Mapping GenAI Techniques and Tasks across Socio-environmental Systems: A Systematic Review. In review
- 02 Adopting GPU Computing to Support DL-based Earth Science Applications. International Journal of Digital Earth, 2023.
- 03 Comparative Analysis of Smartphones and Survey-Grade GNSS Receivers for Parcel Boundary Determination. Journal of Geoinformatics and Environmental Research, 2022.
- 04 COVNLP: A Multisource COVID-19 Dataset for Natural Language Processing. Social Impact of AI for Africa Workshop, AAAI, 2022.
- 05 AFRIGAN: African Fashion Style Generator using Generative Adversarial Networks. Black in AI Workshop, NeurIPS, 2021.
- 06 AFRIFASHION 1600: Contemporary African Fashion Dataset for Computer Vision. IEEE/CVF CVPR Workshops, 2021.
- 07 Artificial Intelligence for Pharmacovigilance in Nigerian Social Media Text. AI for Public Health Workshop, ICLR, 2021.
- 08 NaijaNER: Comprehensive Named Entity Recognition for 5 Nigerian Languages. arXiv:2105.00810, 2021.
Teaching
- PhysicsTeaching Assistant · UCSB
- Maps & Spatial ReasoningTeaching Assistant · UCSB
- Technical Issues in GISTeaching Assistant · UCSB
- People, Place & EnvironmentTeaching Assistant · UCSB
Service & Community
Organizing & Leadership
- Workshop Organizer · CLRLC–LLMs Workshop, NeurIPS2025 – present
- Ambassador · Women in Data Science, Santa Barbara2025 – present
- Vice President · Women in Science & Technology2025 – present
- Mentor · Emerging Leaders in AI, Black in AI2025 – present
- Community Lead · Africa Women in GIS2021
Peer Review & Memberships
- Reviewer · NeurIPS Workshops (LLM Lifecycle; ML & Physical Sciences)2025
- Reviewer · Deep Learning Indaba — Paper Presentation2025
- Member · AAG · AAAI · ACM2024 – present