BERNARD ABAYOWA Ph.D.
I am a data science and AI technical leader with extensive expertise in developing intelligent systems that elevate consumer experience, drive revenue growth, and facilitate data-driven decision-making at scale. Today, I serve as a Principal Data Scientist in the Consumer Data Science Group at Nike.
My Experience & Focus
Data Science and AI Strategy
Effective at leading and collaborating on strategic data science and AI initiatives towards meaningful outcomes
Machine Learning & Analytics
Hands-on experience building intelligent data products to improve business performance and consumer experience at scale
Business & Social Innovation
Strong interest in developing data-driven systems for creating sustainable economic and social value
Publications & Articles
- B. Abayowa , “Boosting Data Value with Neural Embeddings“, 84.51° Data Science Blog, November 10, 2020
- T. Highlander, B. Abayowa, M. Rizki, HS Clouse, “Conditional Dilated Convolution Attention Tracking Model” Third IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), 2019
- P. Jasek, B. Abayowa, “Visual Sensor Network Reconfiguration with Deep Reinforcement Learning” arXiv preprint arXiv 1808.04287”, 2018V.
- Iyer, A. Aved, T. B. Howlett, J. T. Carlo, B. Abayowa “Autoencoder Versus Pre-Trained CNN Networks: Deep-Features Applied to Accelerate Computationally Expensive Object Detection in Real-Time Video Streams” SPIE Defense+ Security, 2018
- J. Carlet, B. Abayowa, “Fast Vehicle Detection in Aerial Imagery” arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.08666, 2017
- S. Rogers, J. Culbertson, M. Oxley, H. Clouse, B. Abayowa, J. Patrick, E. Blasch, J. Trumpfheller, “The quest for multisensory big data ISR situation understanding” SPIE Defense+ Security, 2016
- B. O. Abayowa, A. Yilmaz, and R. C. Hardie, “Automatic Registration of Optical Aerial Imagery to a Lidar Point Cloud for Generation of City Models,” ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vol. 106, Aug. 2015
- A. Hildenbrandt and B. O. Abayowa. “Active visual search (AViS) dataset” In National Aerospace and Electronics Conference. IEEE, Jun. 2015.
- T. V. Rovito, B. O. Abayowa, M. L. Talbert, “Open Source Layered Sensing Model” Proc. SPIE 8047, Ground/Air Multisensor Interoperability, Integration, and Networking for Persistent ISR II, 80470T, 2011.
- B. O. Abayowa. “Thermal Infrared Exploitation for 3D Face Reconstruction” Proc. SPIE 7347, Evolutionary and Bio-Inspired Computation: Theory and Applications III, 73470F, 2009.
- B. O. Abayowa, “A Comparative Study of Blob Detection Methods: Evaluation on Nodule Candidate Detection in Chest Radiographs,” University of Dayton, May 2008