David Ifeoluwa Adelani

David Ifeoluwa Adelani

An Assistant Professor at McGill University, Canada

About me

  • I am an Assistant Professor at McGill School of Computer Science, Canada and a Core Academic Member at MILA, and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair (in 2024). I will be recruiting MSc/PhD students for fall 2025, if you are interested, please apply through MILA’s request for supervision (deadline Decemeber 1, 2024). Previously, I was a DeepMind Academic Fellow at UCL, and a obtained my PhD in Computer Science at Saarland University. For more information, see my CV
  • My research focuses on multilingual NLP and Speech processing especially for low-resource languages. My PhD focuses on NLP for African languages but now I am expanding to various regions of the world including South Asia, South-East Asia and Americas indigeneous languages. For more information on my research interests, see my Research Statement.

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Research interests

  • Machine learning
  • Multilingual NLP
    • NLP for low-resource languages
    • Machine translation
    • Multilingual representation learning
    • Large language model adaptation
  • Speech processing
    • Text-to-speech
    • Speech recognition
    • Speech representation learning
    • Speech translation
    • AudioLLMs

Favourite Quote

“Anything you find your hands doing, do it with all your might” (since 2006)