Remi Oduyemi

Software Engineer at BBC News Labs
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Biography

Remi joined the News Labs family in September 2017. She enjoys exploring ways to enhance experiences for News audiences and journalists with leading edge immersive technology such as bots, facial recognition and Augmented Reality. The Labs family supports and encourages her inventive mind and Remi makes full use of the opportunity to learn all the things while collaborating with inspiring and creative forward-thinkers.

Projects and blog posts

07 October 2020

Graphical storytelling: Extracting and painting a fresh perspective

BBC News trials a new story format on social media.
10 February 2020

Graphical Storytelling: Three things we tested

Labs software engineer Remi Oduyemi describes our recent experiments with new story formats.
05 February 2019

The challenges of debunking fake news in India

Plus, four possible solutions from our latest #newsHACK.
27 February 2018

Face recognition: what use is it to newsrooms?

We built a prototype to highlight and identify the most important people in raw video footage. Here's what we learned during the process.
project

Basic English Explanations (BeX)

A text editor that calculates the readability of a piece of written content.
project

Bots

We're exploring how bots can help the BBC reach new audiences and simplify workflow for our editors and journalists.
project

The Explainer Builder

An experiment in using a single source of truth for journalists creating explainers.
project

Graphical Storytelling

Reaching new audiences with short comics about important health stories
project

Modus

Semi-automatically creating new story modes
project

ReflEx

Knowledge management for news teams and audiences
project

BBC for Voice User Interfaces

We’ve been leading the way in exploring how the corporation should sound on smart speakers such as Google Home and Amazon Echo.

Meet the Team

Alli Shultes

Junior Software Engineer

Anna Błaziak

Junior Software Engineer

Ben Nuttall

Software Engineer

Clare Spencer

Journalist

Conor Molumby

Senior Journalist

Dave Bevan

Senior Systems Engineer

David Caswell

Executive Product Manager

James Dooley

Senior Software Engineer

Jo Kent

Data Architect

Lei He

Senior Software Engineer

Matthew Sim

Graduate Software Engineer

Miles Bernie

Head of Product

Nik Rahmel

Software Engineering Manager

Owen Tourlamain

Graduate Broadcast Engineer

Remi Oduyemi

Software Engineer

Robert McKenzie

Editor

Roo Hutton

Senior Software Engineer

Sarah Rainbow

Graduate Software Engineer

Tamsin Green

Senior Software Engineer

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