After receiving my bachelor of science degree in computer science in 2006 from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, I worked as an intern at Goldfields Ghana Limited, Tarkwa Mine. I worked there for a few months after which I joined the Mineral Engineering Department at the University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa, Ghana as a National Service Person. There I developed software tools for comminution under the supervision of Dr. Richard Amankwah.

In 2009, I joined Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) to pursue my Master of Science degree in Computer Science under the supervision of Dr. Xiaoqing "Frank" Liu. During this time, I worked on security requirements analysis and specification on cloud and cyber-physical systems. After graduation, I worked as an Assistant Lecturer for the Computer Science and Engineering department at the Univesity of Mines and Technology for a year. I returned back to Missouri S&T in 2012 to work on my Ph.D. degree in computer science also under the supervision of Dr. Xiaoqing "Frank" Liu. I am currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass Boston). Prior to joining UMass Boston, I worked with Product Innovation and Engineering as a Software Engineer. There I developed part decomposition algorithms for the Siemens' NX software.

I love to fly fish and play soccer.

The main focus of my research is to develop machine learning methods and algorithms to improve the accuracy and diversity for services selection and recommendation. I have recently started looking into how to deal with the impact of unconscious bias in services recommendation.

I also have interest in metal additive manufacturing (3D printing) and its applications in the aerospace and automobile industry. I have applied services technologies to improve the performance of 3D printing simulation tools. In this area, I have recently started looking to support the metal 3D printing process with real-time machine learning systems.

• Defect Detection in Metal Additive Manufacturing - Phase I, $139,880.00, Sub-Contract share $45,000, U.S. Department of Defense (Navy), 11/09/2022 - 05/09/2023.

• Evaluating and Tuning “SurveyFy” – An Intelligent Survey Questionnaire Curation Application, $12,000, PI, UMass Boston Healey Research Grant, 01/01/2018 – 12/31/2019.
• Best Paper Award: International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2018)

• Additive Manufacturing Simulator (AMS), $100K, Sub-Contract, U.S. Department of Energy, 04/10/2017-04/09/2020.