Osazee Ero

Hi, I'm Osazee.

I Build Intelligent Systems That Solve Real-World Problems.

AI & Machine Learning Engineer building practical AI systems from document intelligence to industrial computer vision.

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Selected Work

Projects

01Featured / Live

Contextly

A private AI knowledge assistant that turns your PDFs into answers you can verify. Upload documents, ask questions, and trace each answer back to its sources.

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Contextly's live landing page with a preview of document questions and cited sources.
Built end to end: document processing, hybrid search, source citations, authentication, and cloud deployment.
02Published research

PhD Research / University of Waterloo

Industrial Computer Vision

Machine learning for defect detection in metal additive manufacturing, using optical tomography, self-organizing maps, and U-Net segmentation.

Optical TomographyU-NetSelf-Organizing MapsFuzzy Logic
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03Prototype

Personal Project / Computer Vision

Hand-Controlled Virtual Lab

A computer vision prototype connecting hand detection from an OAK-D camera to interaction in a Unity virtual laboratory.

OAK-DTensorFlowUnityPython
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Career

Experience

Building and shipping AI systems across startups, research labs, and production environments.

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PhaseShift AI

Now

Machine Learning Engineer / Researcher

Building and deploying machine learning and Generative AI systems across technical workflows, knowledge retrieval, and production inference.

Generative AIProduction MLLLMsResearch

2024 — Present

Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing Lab

Machine Learning Research Associate

Applied deep learning and computer vision to industrial manufacturing processes, with a focus on monitoring, anomaly detection, and model evaluation.

Deep LearningComputer VisionIndustrial AI

2024 — 2025

Optifab Technologies

Lead Software Developer / ML Engineer

Led software and machine learning development for simulation, optimization, and engineering workflow automation.

Production SystemsML EngineeringSoftware Engineering

2023 — 2024

University of Benin

Lecturer — Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Taught advanced programming and embedded systems to undergraduate engineering students, combining software development with practical hardware and systems concepts.

ProgrammingEmbedded SystemsTeaching

2013 — 2020

Scholarship

Research

Research-backed engineering for real-world intelligent systems.

My PhD research grounds engineering decisions in machine learning, computer vision, and industrial AI, with work focused on building reliable systems for real-world technical environments.

Research is not the identity here — it is the technical foundation that strengthens how I design, evaluate, and deploy AI systems.

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PhD Research

Machine Learning

02

Computer Vision

Industrial Applications

03

Industrial AI

Process Intelligence

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Publications

Peer Reviewed

Background

About

Engineer. Researcher. Builder.

I'm an AI & Machine Learning Engineer whose work spans production software engineering, machine learning research, industrial AI, and intelligent system design. I care about closing the gap between promising AI ideas and reliable systems that actually ship.

My work sits at the intersection of Generative AI, intelligent agents, computer vision, and production machine learning. I approach these systems with a focus on simplicity, reliability, measurable impact, and strong engineering practices.

My PhD brings research rigor. My software engineering background brings pragmatism. I use both to build better AI systems.

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LET'S BUILD
SOMETHING
INTELLIGENT.

Osazee Ero

AI & Machine Learning Engineer