Multilingual NLP
- NLP for low-resource languages
- Machine translation
- Multilingual representation learning
- Large language model adaptation
I am an Assistant Professor at McGill School of Computer Science, Canada, a Core Academic Member at Mila, a Canada CIFAR AI Chair (in 2024), and a Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow. Previously, I was a DeepMind Academic Fellow at UCL, and I obtained a 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 focused on NLP for African languages but now I am expanding to various regions of the world including South Asia, South-East Asia and Americas indigenous languages. For more information on my research interests, see my Research Statement.
Prospective students
I'm recruiting a PostDoc interested in VLMs and Multilingual NLP. Send me your CV and research statement if you are interested to my email
I will be recruiting 1-2 PhD students for fall 2027 (focus on multilinguality, post-training and VLMs for low-resource languages). If you are interested, please apply through Mila's request for supervision.