Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science, McGill University · Core Academic Member, Mila · Canada CIFAR AI Chair · Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow.
Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science, McGill University · Core Academic Member, Mila, Québec AI Institute.
Canada CIFAR AI Chair.
DeepMind Academic Fellow, University College London (UCL).
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.
M.Sc. in Computer Science (Language Science & Technology), Saarland University.
Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow.
Best Resource Paper (BRIGHTER) & Best Task Award (SemEval-2025 Task 11).
Best Theme Paper (WorldCuisines) & Outstanding Paper (IrokoBench).
Canada CIFAR AI Chair designation.
Research in multilingual NLP and speech processing for low-resource and underrepresented languages, across Africa, South & South-East Asia and the Indigenous Americas.
Active contributor to grassroots research communities including Masakhane, building open datasets and tools with native speakers.
For supervision, collaboration or speaking invitations.