John is currently a PhD student at the University of Rwanda. His PhD is fully funded by a scholarship from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, given through the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences. He is researching how to leverage machine learning to improve satellite rainfall estimates for African rain-fed agriculture.

He obtained a BSc. Mathematics from the University for Development Studies, Navrongo, Ghana, in 2017. Subsequently, he obtained an MSc. Mathematical Sciences (Big Data and Computer Security) from AIMS Senegal, in 2019. His research interests include data science, machine learning, remote sensing, climate change, climate science, and applied mathematics.

He was recently a research scholar at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, ICRISAT, Mali, where he researched how to leverage machine learning with satellite images for plot delineation in the African rain-fed agriculture setting.