CV

• 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)
• I was formely a Research Fellow (or DeepMind Academic Fellow) at University College London, UK, collaborating with the UCL NLP Group.
• I was formely a PhD Student at the Spoken Language Systems group, Saarland University, Saarland Informatics Campus. I was privileged to be supervised by Prof. Dr. Dietrich Klakow.
• I obtained an MSc in Computer Science from the African University of Science and Technology, Abuja advised by Prof. Mamadou Kaba Traoré, and a BSc in Computer Science from the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria advised by Prof. Adesina Sodiya

Education

• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Nigeria, 2010
• M.Sc. in Computer Science, African University of Science and Technology Abuja, Nigeria 2014
• Ph.D in Computer Science, Saarland University, 2023 (summa cum laude)

Work experience

• Aug 2024 - Present: Assistant Professor
  • McGill School of Computer Science, Canada
• Aug 2024 - Present: Core Academic Member & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
  • Mila - Quebec AI Institute, Canada
• Sep 2022 - Jul 2024 : DeepMind Academic Fellow
  • University College London, United Kingdom
  • Collaborating with UCL NLP Group
• Jan 2019 - Sep 2022 : Reseacher / PhD student
  • Saarland University, Germany
  • Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dietrich Klakow
• April 2021 - Sep 2021 : Intern
  • National institute of Infomatics, Japan
  • Supervisor: Prof. Isao Echizen

Publications

See my list of publications

Service and leadership

• Senior Area chair for ACL 2025
• Area chair for EMNLP 2024 ACL 2024, NAACL 2024, EACL 2024, EMNLP 2023, ACL 2023 in Efficiency in NLP or Cross-Lingual NLP track
• Reviewer for EACL 2023, EMNLP 2022, COLING 2022, LREC 2022, WeaSUL @ICLR 2021, NAACL 2021, ARR 2021 - present, AfricaNLP Workshop (2020, 2021)
• Organizer for:
  • AfricaNLP at ICLR 2024, 2023, 2022
  • Multilingual Representation Learning at EMNLP 2024, 2023
  • Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP Workshop 2023
  • Director at Masakhane Research Foundation — grassroots NLP community for Africa}

Full CV

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