AI Researcher · Low-Resource NLP · African Language Technologies
Prince Nasamu
Alhassan
“Building language technology for Africa's most ignored languages.”
University of Ghana, Legon · CGPA 4.0
About
Who I am
Prince Nasamu Alhassan is an 18-year-old AI researcher and software engineer at the University of Ghana, Legon, maintaining a 4.0 CGPA. A native Kusaal speaker from Bawku in Ghana's Upper East Region, he independently designed, trained, and publicly released the first standalone Kusaal-English machine translation system — building the 32,000-pair parallel corpus that underlies it from scratch. His work has been presented at a GhanaNLP community session, where GhanaNLP co-founder Paul Azunre publicly engaged and requested access to the dataset. He builds full-stack products used by real students, contributes to the Kusaal Wikimedia Community, and taught himself programming during COVID-19 lockdowns before any formal CS instruction.
Stack
Skills
Languages & Frameworks
ML / NLP
Infrastructure & Data
Research
Human Languages
Work
Projects
Kusaal-English Machine Translation
The first open-source standalone Kusaal-English machine translation system. Fine-tuned Meta's NLLB-200-distilled-600M on a 32,589-pair parallel corpus — the largest structured Kusaal linguistic dataset in existence.
Forge — AI-Powered Academic Productivity Tool
Voice-driven study scheduler with Pomodoro focus sessions and usage analytics. Built and shipped within 48 hours at the DesignPxD Student AI Hackathon, UG Legon.
CampusLink — Verified Student Connection Platform
Full-stack platform with two-stage student identity verification, real-time messaging, and an interactive campus map. Built for UG Legon students. Also in development as CampusLink Pay for Moolre Startup Cup 2026.
More projects
Kusaal ASR — Whisper Fine-tune
Fine-tuned OpenAI Whisper on approximately 81 hours of Kusaal Bible audio, producing the first publicly available Kusaal automatic speech recognition model.
FieldMind — RAG Document Intelligence
Retrieval-augmented generation tool for enterprise document search, built with Google Gemini API. Submitted to LabLab.ai hackathon.
ShieldNet AI
Multi-tier cybersecurity SaaS with AI-powered threat intelligence engine, mobile money payment integration, and emergency SMS infrastructure. Built with a team for Moolre Startup Cup 2026.
HyperFlow Risk Agent
Multi-agent trade risk analysis system. Contributed to a team for the AMD Developer Cloud AI Agents hackathon track on Devpost.
WhatsApp & Telegram AI Agents
AI agent that monitors WhatsApp and delivers summarized digests via Telegram. Separate Telegram AI agent using Telethon and Ollama for locally-hosted conversational responses.
DecodeLabs Climate Data Pipeline
End-to-end climate data pipeline ingesting meteorological time-series from the Open-Meteo API across five Ghanaian cities. Built during internship at Decodelabs.
VerifiQ
QR-based student attendance system.
Journey
Experience
Independent NLP Researcher
2024 – PresentDesigned and released the first Kusaal-English MT system and ASR model. Presented at GhanaNLP. Published model and 32K-pair corpus on HuggingFace. Engineering back-translation pipeline to scale corpus to 100K+ pairs.
Data Science Intern — Decodelabs
April – May 2026Built an end-to-end climate data pipeline across five Ghanaian cities using the Open-Meteo API.
Data Science Intern — Codveda Technologies
2025Web-scraped 1,000+ records, built regression/classification models, applied ARIMA forecasting, developed NLP text classification systems.
DesignPxD Student AI Hackathon
2025Built and shipped FieldMind (RAG document intelligence) and Forge (AI study scheduler) in separate hackathon sprints.
AMD Developer Cloud Hackathon
2025Contributed to HyperFlow Risk Agent — multi-agent trade risk system, AI Agents track on Devpost.
Background
Education
University of Ghana, Legon
BSc Mathematical Sciences with Computer Science
2025 – 2029 (Expected)
CGPA: 4.0 / 4.0
Relevant coursework: Calculus, Linear Algebra, Probability & Statistics, Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms, Data Structures, Numerical Analysis
Osei Tutu Senior High School, Akropong
WASSCE
Completed 2025
6 A1s, 2 B3s
- –Ranked 1st in class, 5th school-wide
- –NSMQ national semi-finalist; team leader and primary organiser for school's national campaign
- –Best Student award; top performance in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology
Credentials
Certifications & Recognition
Prompt Engineering & Programming with OpenAI
Columbia University (Columbia+)
TechCrush Data Science Program
12-week applied data science curriculum
Google Research Africa Monthly Student Tech-Talk
Speaker Application — Kusaal-English MT research
SYNC Mentorship Program
CKODON, undergraduate track — Accepted
Pan African AI & Innovation Summit 2026
Registered Attendee
Moonshot Awards
Submitted — Kusaal NLP + CampusLink
Certificate gallery
Contact
Get in Touch
I'm open to research collaborations, engineering roles, and conversations about language technology and African NLP. Reach out through any of the channels below.