Welcome to my GitHub! 🎉 I'm an NLP researcher passionate about advancing technology for low-resource African languages. My work focuses on creating datasets, tools, and resources for these languages to foster inclusivity and diversity in AI and NLP.
- Position: Advanced Research Fellow and Google DeepMind Academic Fellow at Imperial College London.
- Education:
- PhD in Computer Science, University of Porto, Portugal.
- MS in Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK.
- BSc in Computer Science, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria.
- Co-founder:
- HausaNLP - Advancing NLP for the Hausa language.
- Arewa Data Science Academy - Providing free AI education to underserved students in Nigeria.
- Research: Low-resource NLP, sentiment analysis, hate speech detection, emotion analysis, LLM, and LLM evaluation from the lense of cultures.
- Projects:
- Bridge: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection.
- AfriHate: Hate and abusive language classification in African languages.
- AfriSenti: Sentiment Analysis for African languages.
- NaijaSenti: Sentiment analysis for Nigerian languages.
- AfriEmo: Emotion analysis for African languages.
- SemEval Shared Tasks: Co-organizer to tasks on African language such as AfriSenti-SemEval, Semantic Relatedness, and Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection.