About me

I am a postdoctoral research associate at the Princeton Center for Digital Humanities, and my work focuses on multilingual NLP for low-resource languages especially African languages. Before that, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the RIKEN Centre for Advanced Intelligence Project, in the Approximate Bayesian Inference Team where I spent time investigating the use of natural-gradient Bayesian methods to improve uncertainty estimation in PLMs.

I completed my Ph.D. in the Knowledge & Data Engineering Lab at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. During my Ph.D, I was lucky to be advised by Prof. Toshiyuki Amagasa on making use of machine learning and computational linguistics to reason about language and knowledge. I focused on question answering over knowledge base systems.

News

• [Mar 22, 2025] Invited talk at the NJ Makers day
• [Feb 22, 2025] Invited talk at envision conference
• [Feb 13, 2025] INJONGO: A multicultural Intent Detection and Slot-filling Dataset for 16 African languages Pre-print 2025
• [Feb 7, 2025] My course on Teaching Computers to Understand African Languages was featured on Princeton University homepage
• [Jan 16, 2025] IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of Large Language Models accepted at NAACL 2025
• [Dec 23, 2024] Our Lugha-Llama, African centric language models are available on Huggingface
• [Dec 12, 2024] Co-organizing the AfricaNLP 2025 Workshop on Multilingual and Multicultural-aware LLMs at ACL2025
• [2023] AfriQA paper have been accepted at EMNLP2023
• [2023] MasakhaPOS paper have been accepted at ACL2023