I'm a machine learning practitioner interested in explainable AI, small data challenges, and healthcare applications.
My background is in linguistics, and I approach AI through a language and cognition lens, utilizing context through knowledge graphs, ontologies, and semantic web technologies.

Currently based in Ghana, I’ve worked on projects ranging from clinical text classification to building semi-autonomous agents for legal reasoning.
I care about making AI understandable and trustworthy for real-world users — especially in high-stakes fields like medicine.

• Explainable AI for healthcare
• Knowledge-augmented machine learning
• Human-in-the-loop systems
• NLP in clinical and legal domains

• Medical Screening Pipeline
  Used ontology-enhanced ML to reduce manual review time from 6 months to 1 week

• Agentic Legal AI
  Developed LLM-integrated agents with tool-use workflows and validation mechanisms

• Churn & Risk Models
  Built interpretable models with uncertainty estimates for business and patient decisions

Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, SHAP, Hugging Face, Azure, REST APIs, SNOMED-CT (medical ontologies), ML Flow, SQL

🔭 Currently Building

GDPR AI Compliance Scorer - Automated regulatory checking for healthcare AI systems Agentic Medical Assistant - Conversational AI that actually understands clinical context Production ML Templates - Because good AI needs good engineering

🌱 Learning & Exploring

• Advanced RAG architectures & vector databases
• MLOps best practices (currently pursuing certification)
• Swedish SE — preparing for Nordic opportunities

• Explainable AI for high-stakes decisions
• Healthcare AI with limited training data
• Knowledge graph integration with LLMs
• Open-source tools for medical NLP

• M.A. Linguistics (Computational focus), University of Bergen
• Undergraduate in Language & Philosophy
• Certifications: Deep Learning Specialization (in progress), Azure Fundamentals, ML Engineer(Datacamp)

Feel free to reach out — whether you're working on similar problems or just curious.
📧 sammy.okmens@gmail.com
🔗 LinkedIn
-The best AI isn't the most complex — it's the one that solves real problems with the data you actually have.