Tanya Akumu is an engineer with experience in IoT, data analysis, machine learning and deep learning. She has a master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a specialization in applied machine learning from Carnegie Mellon University. She has Developed several projects that involved building data collection platforms, performing data analysis for remote monitoring and predictive maintenance and implementing machine learning architectures for energy systems and battery systems. Currently, she is an AI Science developer at IBM Research Africa working on explainable AI and robustness of machine learning systems using multidimensional subset scanning.