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Computer Engineering student at ENSPY, building applied AI for development across computer vision, geospatial ML, and low-resource NLP, with a particular focus on Africa

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Hi, I'm

Balbino
Tchoutzine

Computer Engineering Student

AI Research (foundations, alignment, prediction) · Speaker & Leader AI Cell

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My Expertise

Core Areas

Computer Vision

Agriculture, product quality, geospatial

Applied / Competitive Machine Learning

Data science competitions (Zindi)

Geospatial AI & Foundation Models

Satellite imagery, crop mapping

NLP & Low-Resource

ASR adapters, XLM-RoBERTa, African languages

Edge AI / On-Device

Gemma, LiteRT, offline rural

Secondary Areas

Data Science & Analytics

Time series, finance, climate

Lightweight MLOps / ML APIs

Django + PyTorch

AI Capacity Building

AI Cell, Zindi Ambassador, workshops

Data / BI

Power BI, DAX

By the numbers

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Latest Posts

August 21, 2026·AI

Predicting Chad's crop yields from satellite data | 1st place (private LB) in a Zindi challenge

How I finished 1st on the private leaderboard of a Zindi challenge predicting crop yields in Chad, with a 5-model tree ensemble, sequential 2024 to 2025 inference, and zero external data.

8 min readRead article →
July 14, 2026·AI

Gardienne: an AI shield against cyberharassment | 2nd place at the Girls in STEAM hackathon

At the Cameroonian Girls in STEAM hackathon, I built Gardienne to give girls facing cyberharassment in Cameroon a way to understand, prove, and act. The story of a project, and a 2nd place.

10 min readRead article →
May 4, 2026·AI

TCHOUTZIFY: give meaning to every track and build your mood playlists

From Kanye West to a full music agent: how the frustration of not understanding a song pushed me to build TuneZine AI, a 100% free n8n agent that analyzes your music in real time.

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My Objective

Contributing to the advancement of AI research on a global scale, while developing technologies that address African realities. I want to pursue my research within international teams and labs, without losing sight of the impact technology can have back home, in Cameroon.

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Interests

AI for development in Africa

Agriculture, health, climate, financial inclusion

Foundation models & fine-tuning

Mostly low-resource / edge

ML competitions & open data community

Zindi

Applied research

Grokking, label noise, multimodal systems

Teaching & knowledge sharing

MLTS, debates, talks in Benin & Chad

Basketball, chess, scrabble, reading

Personal development, business, finance

Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow