Hamzat Tiamiyu Ustaz
Data Scientist, Machine Learning and AI Engineer
Tiamiyu has a background in electronic and electrical engineering and has developed a passion for building machine learning (ML) solutions for different business problems. He is experienced in leading projects from concept to production.He is applying for Ph.D. programs (and Research Masters program) and open to research in data science, machine learning especially in the field of Natural language processing with focus on low resource languages and low resource environments.
- Abuja, Nigeria
- hamzattiamiyu@gmail.com
- +234 704 025 8976
About
I am a data scientist and ML engineer passionate about integrating AI models with real-world systems. My work spans data engineering, NLP, and transformer-based systems. I have experience across startups and remote teams, focusing on robust and explainable AI applications.
Research & Publications
TMLink: Integration of Probabilistic Linkage with Transformer Models — co-authored (under review). View manuscript.
Keywords: Data Matching · Transformers · Machine Learning.
Implementing a secure machine learning operations framework for continuous deployment of cybersecurity machine learning models in IoT networks — co-authored (Published). View Paper.
Keywords: Machine Learning Operations · Cybersecurity · Federated Learning · Intrusion Detection · Continuous Deployment · Internet of Things · Secure AI Engineering.
TMLink — Probabilistic Record Linkage
Co-authored a transformer-based probabilistic record linkage system with a Streamlit frontend and FastAPI backend. Paper under review; implementation uses sentence embeddings and graph-based clustering.
Cybersecurity AI Assistant
Fine-tuned a Qwen2.5-7B model on cybersecurity datasets; deployed via FastAPI and tracked with Comet-ML. Code & demo available on GitHub.
Recent News
- Oct, 2025 — Preparing Ph.D. applications and working on developing first Ebira bi-directional machine translational model, speech model (STT and TTS) and Ebira language model.
- March, 2025 — Contributed to paper submission: TMLink (under review).
- Sept, 2025 — Implementing a secure machine learning operations framework for continous deployment of cybersecurity machine learning models in IOT network(Published).
- April, 2025 — Released open-source tool Guide for finetuning a small language model on cybersecurity questions-answer pairs by implementing a data collection pipeline to pull data from github repositories, feature-training-inference pipeline with deployment using FastAPI and ngrok.
Achievements & Certifications
Built and deployed several ML systems in different organizations both locally and internationally; co-authored a research paper on probabilistic linkage and secure mlops framework in IOT network.
- Synthetic Data Generation for Fine-tuning AI Models — Uplimit (Mar 2025 – Present)
- Building RAG Applications — Uplimit (Dec 2024 – Present)
- Uplimit Natural Language Processing Certification — Uplimit (Aug 2022 – Present)
Education
- B.Sc. — Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University (2015—2020)
- Currently applying for Ph.D. programs (interests: ML, NLP, language models for low resource languages)
Contact
Email: hamzattiamiyu@gmail.com
GitHub: @AbooMardiiyah
Toptal Profile: Developer
Linkedin: Linkedin