Supervision

Doctoral theses in progress

I supervise five doctoral students at UFHB. Their theses belong to a common research programme.

• Automatic speech recognition for Ivorian languages, starting with Dioula.
• Graph neural networks.
• Traffic modelling for Abidjan from trajectory data.
• Artificial intelligence for agriculture, including crop disease recognition.
• Faithfulness of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems.

Master’s theses (M2) defended 6

Scientific director, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Titles in French, as defended.

• October 2025

  Smart city : prédiction de la densité du trafic urbain dans la ville d’Abidjan Karim Konaté. Defended on 14 October 2025, under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Claude Koua Brou.

• October 2025

  Modélisation et réalisation d’un système multi-agents intelligent pour la gestion d’une clinique Henri Joël Yapi. Defended on 14 October 2025, under the supervision of Armel Fabrice Evrard Yodé, Associate Professor.

• October 2025

  Agriculture de précision : détection automatique des maladies foliaires du manioc à l’aide du deep learning Yao Romaric Adaye. Defended on 14 October 2025, under the supervision of Prof. Adama Coulibaly.

• October 2025

  Utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle pour la prédiction de la qualité des cabosses de cacao Doh Coulibaly. Defended on 14 October 2025, under the supervision of Prof. Auguste Aman.

• October 2024

  Sécurité des systèmes d’information : détection des fichiers PDF malveillants Ahou Ange-Maurelle Kouamé. Defended on 11 October 2024, under the supervision of Prof. Adama Coulibaly.

• October 2024

  Conception et réalisation d’une solution informatique pour la gestion du transport interurbain de personnes et de biens : cas de la compagnie CTE Kouadio Aimé Trésor Adou. Defended on 11 October 2024, under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Claude Koua Brou.

Master’s theses co-supervised in Morocco

Faculty of Sciences and Technologies of Tangier, Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi, with Prof. Abdellah Azmani

• Mohamed Samai, Master in mathematical engineering: Machine learning and deep learning for the recognition of administrative and accounting documents and their transcription into database-ready information.
• Marouane Fakhri, Master in mathematical engineering: Application des concepts de machine learning et de deep learning pour la reconnaissance des images de produits avec génération d’offres.
• Ayoub El Hayat and Youssef Hassoun, Master in information systems and decision support: Design and realisation of an infologistic solution using the principles of the Physical Internet for intelligent freight management.

Thesis committees

Besides the defences of the theses I directed, I served as examiner on two Master’s committees in computer science (databases and software engineering) at UFHB:

• Kinimo Saint Yves Aka: public transport and bus management in Cocody using geomatics.
• Fiacre André Saoré: artificial intelligence for cancer detection.

Joining the group

I welcome candidates interested in speech and language technology for African languages, AI for health or multi-agent systems. Please send a CV, your Master’s transcript and a one-page research idea to amadou1.diabagate@ufhb.edu.ci. Members of the group have access to the Research4Life databases through Centre IDTDS.