Paul Ssemakula

Co-founder, Lead Software Engineer, and AI Researcher with 4 years building full-stack software and AI-driven products. Currently advancing Medical AI and LLM systems as an MS Data Science researcher at KAIST (published at MICCAI 2026), while leading app and web development at Tet la'ngech Embedded Systems for monitoring products in Uganda. Previously engineered computer vision models for autonomous drones. Strong across Python, PyTorch, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Multimodal AI, RAG systems, and data engineering. Fluent in English, Luganda, and Korean.

[email protected] +82 10-4648-6357 Daejeon, South Korea

Years experience

Project

Languages

Work Experience

AI Engineer Intern

C&S

12/2024 — 02/2025Daejeon, South Korea

Engineered a window recognition AI model for autonomous cleaning drones.
Conducted in-depth market research on hydrogen boilers and authored a comprehensive analysis document.

Lead Software Engineer

Tet la'ngech Embedded Systems Technology

01/2021 — PresentCurrentKampala, Central Region, Uganda

Co-Founded the company.
Engineered and launched the official company website, enhancing brand visibility and establishing partnerships with key government and private institutions in Uganda
Spearheaded the app development of key products e.g. PIMA for gas monitoring, ensuring successful deployment and production readiness.

Individual Study Research at Multimodal AI Lab

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

12/2023 — 02/2024Daejeon, South Korea

Conducted individual study research in multimodal AI, focusing on the integration of text, audio, and visual data for comprehensive machine learning applications

Project Manager at Multimodal AI Lab

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

07/2023 — 09/2023Daejeon, South Korea

Spearheaded the data annotation project in collaboration with the lab supervisor

Data Annotator at Multimodal AI Lab

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

05/2022 — 09/2023Daejeon, South Korea

Label and categorize speech segments in videos, Identify speakers and annotate dialogues, Ensure accuracy and quality of transcribed data

Projects

Tet la'ngech Ltd. Website

Designed and launched the official company website for Tet la'ngech Ltd.

Skills

Computer Vision, LLM, Multimodal AI, RAGData Analysis, Data Engineering, Data VisualizationNext.js, React, TypeScript, React NativePython, PyTorch, Tensorflow, R, SQL, PowerBI

Education

Masters of Science, Graduate School of Data Science

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

2025 — Present3.93/4.3

Contributed to engineering a Medical AI model that autonomously classified whole slide images into cancer types, and directing ambiguous cases for physician review
Contributed to a medical LLM project that extracted actionable insights from blood test data, streamlining specialists' manual workload

Bachelor of Science, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Business Technology Management (BTM)

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

02/2021 — 12/20243.63/4.3

Dean's List Student Award for Fall Semester 2023

Global Entrepreneurship Summer School, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

03/2024 — 06/2024

One year Program, Korean Language Course

Dongseo University

02/2020 — 01/2021

Certifications

The Complete 2020 Fullstack Web Developer Course

Udemy

Korean Language Proficiency Test (TOPIK) - Level 5

National Institute for International Education (NIIED)

2024-11

References

안중현

대표이사 · C&S

Languages

English

Native

Korean

Intermediate

Luganda

Native

Publications

SAM-Cluster and SAM-LP: Structure-Aware Evaluation Metrics for Selecting WSI Feature Extractors without MIL Training

International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2026)

06/2026

Juhyeon Kim, Paul Ssemakula, Chanjae Song, Mun Yong Yi

https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2555-6318

Optimizing Button Size to Enhance User Experience for Augmented Reality Interactions in Mobile Scenarios

International Ergonomics Association (IEA)

2024

Hojung Lee, Yehyoung Jeon, Keisuke Kudo, Paul Ssemakula, Seonghyeok Park, Shunping Xiong

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-0289-9_69

Leadership and Community

Financial Manager

Chugku FC

08/2025 - 09/2026

Managed financial and operational duties for a semi-professional soccer club based in Daejeon (founded in 2008), while also serving as a goalkeeper. Maintained the team's finances and operations, participating in matches and training sessions as the team was promoted from the K7 League through the K6 League to its current spot in the K5 League (Sejong).

chugkufc.com