Assistant Professor · McGill & Mila

David Ifeoluwa Adelani

Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science, McGill University · Core Academic Member, Mila · Canada CIFAR AI Chair · Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow.

Appointments
2024 –

Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science, McGill University · Core Academic Member, Mila, Québec AI Institute.

2024 –

Canada CIFAR AI Chair.

2022 – 2024

DeepMind Academic Fellow, University College London (UCL).

Education
PhD

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.

MSc

M.Sc. in Computer Science (Language Science & Technology), Saarland University.

Honors & awards
2025

Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow.

ACL 2025

Best Resource Paper (BRIGHTER) & Best Task Award (SemEval-2025 Task 11).

NAACL 2025

Best Theme Paper (WorldCuisines) & Outstanding Paper (IrokoBench).

2024

Canada CIFAR AI Chair designation.

Focus & community

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.

Contact

Get in touch

For supervision, collaboration or speaking invitations.