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Lloyd A. Thompson

Machine Learning Researcher

About Me

Greetings! I am a Vision Science Ph.D. student at Indiana University Bloomington, working in the Vision In Action Lab led by Dr. Kathryn Bonnen. My academic background is rooted in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision, having completed the prestigious African Masters of Machine Intelligence (AMMI) program, proudly supported by Facebook and Google.

I began my journey at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), where I developed a deep appreciation for mathematics, problem-solving, and their powerful real-world applications.

My passion for education and innovation was sparked early in my career while working as an instructor, helping young learners build robots using LEGO®, recycled materials, and drag-and-drop programming tools. Watching creativity and logic come alive in those classrooms laid the foundation for my ongoing interest in learning systems and intelligent behavior.

Currently, my research focuses on the intersection of gaze behavior, unsupervised representation learning, and computer vision, with a long-term goal of developing biologically inspired algorithms that advance our understanding of visual perception, attention, and behavior. I am particularly interested in how machine learning can help decode complex multimodal data to gain insights into human vision and cognition.

Prior to my Ph.D., I served as a lecturer at Academic City University College, where I taught courses in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics, and Problem Solving. Mentoring future innovators and researchers remains one of the most rewarding aspects of my journey.

Join me as I explore the frontiers of human and machine intelligence—bridging disciplines to design systems that see, learn, and act in ways inspired by the human brain.

Research Interest

  • Gaze Behavior and Eye Movement Analysis in Natural Environments
  • Computational Modeling of Visual Attention and Perception
  • Vision-Based Intelligent Systems and Human-AI Interaction
  • Representation Learning for Spatiotemporal and Egocentric Data

Education

  • MSc. Machine Intelligence

    Africa Masters of Machine Intelligence(AMMI-Rwanda)

    Project Supervisor: Dr. Dinesh Jayaraman

  • BSc. Information Technology, 2013

    Ghana Technology University College (GTUC)

    Project Supervisor: Mr. Dominic Louis

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Work Experience

Mint Innovations

Technology Research and Innovation Centre

Ghana Technology University College, (GTUC)

Teaching experience

GTUC / TRIC

Projects

Computer Vision for Crop Disease Classification

Object Detection

ASR system for the Ga-Adangbe Language

Skills

Programming
  • Python

  • C++

  • NXC

Tools

  • Git

  • VSCode/PyCharm

  • Latex/Linux

Libraries
  • Pytorch/Pytorch_lightning

  • Tensorflow

  • OpenCV

Contact

Feel free to contact me