Messi Nguelé Thomas

Doctor MESSI NGUELÉ Thomas defended his PhD in Computer Science in 2018 in cotutelle between University Grenoble Alpes and University of Yaoundé I. He is now a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Yaoundé I. He is Head of the Department of Computer Engineering at ESTLC of the University of Ebolowa as well as the Head of the Computer Science and Applications Laboratory at Ambam. He mainly teaches programming courses (C, Python) and distributed learning courses on parallel architectures. His research work mainly focuses on the parallelization of machine learning algorithms.

He is a recipient of the Africom Award Mobily for Staff (July 2022) and a recipient of the ACTS AI4D Africa funding (August 2022 – August 2024). He was a visiting researcher at University of Grenoble (September 2023 and February 2025). He is affiliated with the Idasco research team (Data Sciences and Complex Systems), in its HiPerDas (High Performance Data Science) branch. He is the President of the ARITeD research association and the Education Officer of the Cameroon Computer Science Society, and Treasurer of the Cameroon Artificial Intelligence Society.