Ilerioluwakiiye Abolade

I am Ilerioluwakiiye Abolade, a final-year Mechatronics Engineering student at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria, and an independent researcher at ML Collective, an open science community for self-driven AI researchers. I was also recently a Research Fellow at SPARK Academy, supervised by Dr. Maruf Adewole and Prof. Udunna Anazodo.

My research lies at the intersection of deep learning and medical imaging, with a focus on domain adaptation, robustness, and fairness in low-resource healthcare settings. I aim to make medical AI models more reliable and accessible across diverse populations and imaging conditions.

Profile

Publications

2025

VAMAE: Vessel-Aware Masked Autoencoders for OCT-Angiography

Abolade, I., Mireku, P., Chibundu, K., Ododo, P., Idoko, E., Omoigui, P., & Odelola, S.

ICPR 2026, In review

2025

Domain-Adaptive Transformer for Data-Efficient Glioma Segmentation in Sub-Saharan MRI

Abolade, I., Udo, A., Ojo, A., Oyetunji, A., Ajigbotosho, H., Iorumbur, A., Raymond, C., & Adewole, M.

ISBI 2026, In review

2025

Addressing Domain Shift in Low-Resource Neuroimaging: Glioma Segmentation for Sub-Saharan MRI

Abolade, I.

WiML @ NeurIPS

2025

SharpXR: Structure-Aware Denoising for Pediatric Chest X-Rays

Abolade, I., Idoko, E., Odelola, S., Omoigui, P., Adebanwo, A., Iorumbur, A., Anazodo, U., Crimi, A., & Confidence, R.

MIRASOL @ MICCAI, Best Paper Runner-up (Springer LNCS)

News

Dec 2025:I was invited to speak on "Building Robust Medical Imaging AI for Low-Resource Settings" at ML Lagos 2025. [Talk Recording].
Nov 2025:We were invited to present "SharpXR: Structure-Aware Denoising for Pediatric Chest X-Rays" as a poster at The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (ICAIR).
Nov 2025:I will be giving my talk "Why Your Medical AI Model Might Not Work in Africa: A Python Guide to Measuring Bias" again at PyLadiesCon 2025.
Oct 2025:I led Team Mamalens, and we were a finalist at the Data Science for Health Ideathon (in collaboration with the Deep Learning Indaba). We also won the “most fun project” award! [Slides]
Oct 2025:I was invited as a guest speaker to speak on "Making Impact Beyond School" at the Freshers Orientation of the Association of Mechatronics Engineering Students (AMTES), FUNAAB. Thank you to the executives!
Oct 2025:Delivered a talk on "Why Your Medical AI Model Might Not Work in Africa: A Python Guide to Measuring Bias" at PyCon Nigeria 2025. [Slides]
Oct 2025:I have just been appointed as Co-Lead of the Google Developer Groups FUNAAB, after serving as ML Co-Lead in the previous year. Join our community here!
Sept 2025:Presented "SharpXR: Structure-Aware Denoising for Pediatric Chest X-Rays" at the MIRASOL Workshop, — awarded Best Paper Runner-Up!
Sept 2025:Our paper "Addressing Domain Shift in Low-Resource Neuroimaging: Glioma Segmentation for Sub-Saharan MRI" was accepted to WiML @ NeurIPS 2025. Awarded a full travel grant to attend.
Aug 2025:Won a Best Poster Award at the Deep Learning Indaba 2025 for "Fairness-Aware Machine Learning for Social Bias Detection in Healthcare Research Datasets." which I presented as a collaborator. [Poster]
July 2025:Attended the RISE-MICCAI Summer School 2025, a one-week program on medical image computing and AI in healthcare.
June 2025:Received a scholarship for the 2025 Stanford AIMI Symposium, which included complimentary virtual registration for the event held at Stanford University on June 3, 2025.
June 2025:My first paper "SharpXR: Structure-Aware Denoising for Pediatric Chest X-Rays" was accepted at the MICCAI MIRASOL Workshop! I led this research as the lead for the ML Collective medical imaging focus group in Nigeria. Congratulations to the team!
Mar 2025:Excited to have been selected for the MICCAI Society Mentorship Program and be paired with Prof. Qingjie Meng!
Sept 2024:Presented a poster on “Maternify” at the Deep Learning Indaba 2024 in Dakar, Senegal. Thank you to the DLI Committee for the full sponsorship.
Sept 2024:I spoke at DjangoCon US 2024 on "The Magic of Dependencies Installing Themselves," highlighting PEP 723 for reproducibility and efficiency. [Talk]
Sept 2024:I will be at PyCon Africa 2024 in Accra, Ghana! Thank you to the Python community for the full sponsorship.
June 2024:Earned the “Microsoft Azure Responsible AI Workshop Coach” badge for mentoring participants on building fair and trustworthy AI systems.
May 2024:I built “Maternify,” an ML-powered prenatal care chatbot, with Toyibat Adele, Kelechi Chbundu and Muslimah Sarumi, and we ranked Top 5 in the “Microsoft Ambassador’s AI Challenge.”
Feb 2024:Received a $2,000 grant to attend PyCon US 2024, the largest annual convention for the Python programming language.
Jan 2024:Delivered a talk on "Balancing Academics and a Thriving Tech Career" at the AMTES (FUNAAB) Freshers Orientation