Reliable AI evaluation
How benchmark design, evaluator choice, prompt framing, and language coverage affect conclusions about model performance, particularly for African languages.
RELIABLE AI · SMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURE · INCLUSIVE SYSTEMS
Building useful systems. Evaluating intelligent ones.
I’m Elvis Gyasi Owusu, a Ghanaian technology founder, software engineer, and researcher working across agricultural infrastructure, accessibility, and AI evaluation. I build offline-capable production systems and study how evaluation design shapes conclusions about AI.
Reliable AI evaluationSmallholder agricultureInclusive software systemsOffline-capable infrastructureAfrican-language AI
21,759registered farmers
3,554service providers
100+sites made accessible
2arXiv preprints
Research
Reliable AI for real-world conditions
My work connects trustworthy evaluation with the design of useful digital systems for African languages, smallholder agriculture, accessibility, and low-connectivity environments.
AI and digital systems for smallholder agriculture
How to design and evaluate useful tools for farmers and service providers when connectivity, language coverage, and data are limited.
Inclusive software systems
How offline-capable architecture, accessibility, and technical reliability affect whether AI-enabled services work in everyday use.
Current work measures how evaluator family, assertive framing, verification requests, and small wording changes can alter the conclusions drawn about a language model.
My systems work examines how offline-capable architecture, accessibility, and technical reliability determine whether AI-enabled services remain useful in everyday Ghanaian contexts.
Publications
Preprints & manuscripts under review
Two 2026 arXiv preprints in language-model evaluation and African-language AI, with manuscripts under review at TACL and ACL Rolling Review.
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arXiv preprint · 2609.17857 · 2026
Who Judges Matters: Measuring Family-Conditioned Preference in LLM-as-Judge Panels
Manuscript under review at TACL · submitted September 2026
Examines how evaluator model family can systematically change pairwise LLM judgments. Across 9,312 judgments, the study introduces a corrected estimator that separates family-conditioned preference from candidate quality.
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arXiv preprint · 2609.17853 · 2026
AfriSyCo: Factorially Separating Assertive Framing and Verification in African-Language Answer Switching
Manuscript under review at ACL Rolling Review · October 2026 cycle · Submission 218
Preprint title: AfriSyCo: Measuring Assertive Framing, Verification, and Wording Sensitivity Around African-Language Content
Studies answer switching across six African languages and seven open-weight checkpoints. It shows that assertive framing, verification requests, and small wording changes materially affect measured model behaviour.
Experience
Leadership grounded in delivery
The roles that best explain the through-line between company building, engineering, teaching, and research.
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer
MechLink LimitedCompany strategy, product direction, technical architecture, partnerships, and field operations for digital agricultural infrastructure.
Founder
OptomusBuilding an AI-powered platform for coordinated content, publishing, engagement, analytics, and growth workflows.
Technical Lead & Full-Stack Developer
Digital Drivers TechnologiesLed accessibility-focused product engineering across web platforms, browser extensions, reusable widgets, and shared AI services.
Research & Teaching Assistant
KNUST, Department of Computer ScienceSupported undergraduate teaching and mentored students in programming, software engineering, computer networks, and research practice.
Selected projects
Products with evidence behind them
A focused portfolio of platforms I have founded, led, researched, or engineered.
MechAfrica
Offline-first agricultural service infrastructure connecting farmers, mechanisation providers, and field teams through mobile applications, USSD, SMS, and Mobile Money.
21,759 registered farmers · 3,554 providers · 9 regions · 16 districts · 6,273 service requestsView project
Optomus
A multi-tenant AI orchestration platform for content planning, generation, approvals, publishing, engagement, analytics, and lead qualification across social platforms.
13 specialised AI agents · multi-platform publishing · real-time workflowsView project
Euodia Consulting Platform
A public consulting website and companion operations platform for content, enquiries, email workflows, image management, secure administration, and privacy-conscious analytics.
Marketing site + secure admin · resilient content fallback · first-party analyticsView project
Boafo Accessibility
An accessibility extension and embeddable web widget supporting speech, translation, summarisation, contrast, and interface adaptation.
Deployed across 100+ websites · 500+ weekly npm downloadsView project
CampSafe
A paired mobile safety system combining SOS reporting, live location, responder coordination, secure messaging, and anomaly detection over movement trajectories.
First-class final-year research · paired Flutter apps · DBSCAN anomaly detectionView project
Hostella
Student, administrator, and super-administrator platforms for accommodation discovery, booking, payments, communication, and operational management.
4,000+ students · 4+ hostels · three connected portalsView projectEducation
Academic background
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
BSc Computer Science · First Class HonoursFinal-year research: CampSafe, an AI-powered campus safety platform using unsupervised anomaly detection over location trajectories for automated emergency escalation.
View degree certificatePrempeh College
General ScienceHall President, 2018—2019.
View WASSCE certificateProfessional development
Verified certifications
Selected completed credentials with direct verification links.
Google · Coursera · January 2026
Google Project Management Professional Certificate
Professional certificate covering project initiation, planning, execution, and agile delivery. The Credly credential is endorsed by FIBAA and evaluated by the American Council on Education for college-credit recommendations.
Verify credentialGoogle · Coursera · September 2025
Google Prompting Essentials Specialization
Completed specialization in prompt design, AI-assisted analysis, creative collaboration, and workflow optimization.
Verify credentialCoursera · September 2026
Automate Tasks and Processes with Jira
Applied Jira automation for repeatable project workflows, issue transitions, and delivery processes.
Verify credentialIBM · Coursera · September 2026
JavaScript Programming with React, Node & MongoDB Specialization
Specialization authorized by IBM covering React front-ends, modular server-side applications with Node.js and Express, NoSQL data in MongoDB, and RESTful API design.
Verify credentialUdemy · April 2025
NodeJS Masterclass (Express, MongoDB, OpenAI)
Building scalable backend services integrated with AI using Node.js and MongoDB.
Verify credentialRecognition & capabilities
Evidence beyond the work
2nd place, BRIDGE-in Agriculture Pitch Competition
CrossBoundary Advisory · Mastercard Foundation initiative
Core capabilities
- Reliable AI evaluation
- Full-stack product engineering
- Offline-first distributed systems
- AI & digital systems for agriculture
- Technical product leadership
- Accessible and inclusive interfaces
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