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					<h2>Current projects</h2>
					<p>Where I currently put my energy: AI for water and air in West Africa, NLP for local languages,
						and open-source research software. Past projects are listed on a <a href="past-projects.html">dedicated page</a>.</p>
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						<header><img src="images/watair.png" alt="WaTAIR" /><h4>SSaFe &amp; WaTAIR <span class="badge ongoing">Ongoing</span></h4></header>
						<div class="meta">2024 &ndash; present &bull; Co-founder</div>
						<p><b>Sustainable Sanitation Facilities (SSaFe)</b> brings AI-leveraged water sanitation to the point of use in West Africa. Its flagship product, <b>WaTAIR</b> (Water Treatment using AI and Robotics, led by M. Agbahoungbata with A. Ambarka), targets optimal wastewater treatment in the African context. WaTAIR was initially funded by the AI Movement / African Women in Tech &amp; AI programme (UM6P, 2024).</p>
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							<li><a href="https://ssafe-sas.com/" class="button small" target="_blank">ssafe-sas.com</a></li>
							<li><a href="https://aim.um6p.ma/en/women-in-tech-and-ai/" class="button small" target="_blank">AWITAI</a></li>
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						<header><img src="images/projects/aq1.png" alt="Air quality" /><h4>Benin Air Quality Initiative <span class="badge ongoing">Ongoing</span></h4></header>
						<div class="meta">2022 &ndash; present &bull; Co-Principal Investigator</div>
						<p>Durable PM<sub>2.5</sub> monitoring for sustainable clean-air governance in Benin (SDG 3 &amp; 11). I lead the data systems, open-data workflows, analytics and stakeholder-facing evidence products. With Clean Air One Atmosphere, the University of Abomey-Calavi and S&egrave;m&egrave; City (SCITI); funded by the EPIC Air Quality Fund (2026).</p>
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							<li><a href="https://aqfund.epic.uchicago.edu/" class="button small" target="_blank">EPIC AQ Fund</a></li>
							<li><a href="./assets/docs/slides-cleanair.pdf" class="button small" target="_blank">Slides</a></li>
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						<header><img src="images/nlpcrew.svg" alt="NLP Crew" /><h4>NLP Crew <span class="badge ongoing">Ongoing</span></h4></header>
						<div class="meta">2023 &ndash; present &bull; Co-founder</div>
						<p>Research group conducting NLP research for our local languages, particularly those of Benin (Fongb&eacute;, Yoruba): speech recognition, embeddings, text-to-speech. Affiliated to the LRSIA lab, IFRI/UAC.</p>
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							<li><a href="https://nlpcrew.github.io/" class="button small" target="_blank">nlpcrew.github.io</a></li>
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						<header><h4>CPPxDIC &amp; CppNCorr <span class="badge ongoing">Ongoing</span></h4></header>
						<div class="meta">2025 &ndash; present &bull; INMA/UCLouvain</div>
						<p>Open-source 2D digital image correlation (DIC) software in C++ for neuroscience applications, developed for high-throughput imaging pipelines.</p>
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							<li><a href="https://github.com/xdic-dev/CPPxDIC" class="button small" target="_blank">CPPxDIC</a></li>
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						<header><h4>PANTHER / CyberExcellence <span class="badge ongoing">Ongoing</span></h4></header>
						<div class="meta">2023 &ndash; present &bull; UCLouvain</div>
						<p>Formal verification and testing of network protocols: the PANTHER framework and the NACT methodology found and reproduced real-world vulnerabilities in five QUIC implementations. Started under the Walloon CyberExcellence post-doctoral fellowship.</p>
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							<li><a href="https://github.com/ElNiak/PANTHER" class="button small" target="_blank">GitHub</a></li>
							<li><a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scico.2025.103389" class="button small" target="_blank">Paper</a></li>
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						<header><a href="https://dionysos-dev.github.io/Dionysos.jl/stable/" target="_blank"><img src="images/dionysos.png" alt="Dionysos" /></a><h4>Dionysos.jl <span class="badge ongoing">Ongoing</span></h4></header>
						<div class="meta">2024 &ndash; present &bull; Contributor</div>
						<p>Control-system problem solver developed at UCLouvain (abstraction-based control); I contribute to the optimization side.</p>
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							<li><a href="https://dionysos-dev.github.io/Dionysos.jl/stable/" class="button small" target="_blank">Documentation</a></li>
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						<header><a href="https://www.djakahc.org/" target="_blank"><img src="images/djaka.png" alt="DJAKA HC" /></a><h4>DJAKA DJAKA Handball Club <span class="badge ongoing">Ongoing</span></h4></header>
						<div class="meta">2023 &ndash; present &bull; Chairman</div>
						<p>A sports and social project in Abomey-Calavi (Benin). <b>Sport:</b> recruiting age-based players from schools and training them into competitive players. <b>Social:</b> an ambitious programme helping families fight poverty, juvenile delinquency and violence against children, and supporting minorities, women and children, all through sport and appropriate social support.</p>
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				<p><b>Lecturer and Researcher</b>, with over 10 years of experience in artificial intelligence,
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