CV

Education

• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Bowen University Nigeria, 2015
• M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Ibadan Nigeria, 2021
• M.Sc. in Computer Science, Saarland University Germany, 2021

Work experience

• June 2022 - till date: Ph.D. student/Researcher
  • Spoken Language Systems (LSV) research group, Saarland University
  • Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dietrich Klakow
  • Topic: Data Augmentation in NLP
• May 2024 - August 2024: Research Intern
  • NII Speech group, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan
  • Supervisor: Prof. Junichi Yamagishi
  • Topic: TTS for under-resourced languages
• February 2022 - June 2022: Research Engineer
  • ALMAnaCH project-team, INRIA Paris
  • Supervisor: Dr. Rachel Bawden
  • Topic: Domain Adaptation in NMT
• August 2021 - January 2022: Research Intern
  • Database and Information Systems, Max Planck Institute for Informatics
  • Supervisor: Dr. Rishiraj Saha Roy
  • Topic: Unified Question Answering over heterogeneous sources
• September 2020 - July 2021: Research Assistant
  • Database and Information Systems, Max Planck Institute for Informatics
  • Supervisor: Dr. Rishiraj Saha Roy
  • Topic: Unified Question Answering over heterogeneous sources
• October 2019 - July 2020: Research Assistant
  • Multilinguality and Language Technology, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
  • Duties included: Develop a self supervised neural machine translation framework in Fairseq
  • Supervisor: Dr. Cristina España i Bonet
• January - October 2016: Graduate Assistant
  • Department of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Afe Babalola University, Nigeria
  • Duties included: Academics
  • Supervisor: Dr. Seyi Adeyemo

Skills

• Machine/Deep Learning
• Natural Language Processing
  • Machine Translation
  • Text classification
  • Representation Learning
  • Question Answering Systems
• Python
• Pytorch
• OpenNMT
• Fairseq

Honors and Awards

• Best System Description Paper Award at SemEval 2024, NAACL 2024, Mexico - 2024
• Area Chair Award(Resources and Evaluation) at the AACL 2023, Indonesia - 2023
• Best Paper Award (Grand Challenge KISTI category) at the COLING 2022, South Korea - 2022
• 1st prize, AI4D Takwimu Lab - Machine Translation Challenge - 2021
• Saarland Scholarship for International Students (STIBET III DAAD Graduation Grant) - 2020
• Black in AI travel grant to attend the 2019 Neurips at Vancouver
• Undergraduate Awards at Bowen University
  • New Horizon Laptop Prize for Best Graduating Student in the International Professional IT and E-Business Certification Program(CISCO CERT) for 2014/2015 Academic Session.
  • Faculty Award for Best Graduating Student in the Faculty of Science and Science Education for 2014/2015 Academic Session
  • Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for the Best Graduating Student in the Faculty of Science and Science Education for 2014/2015 Academic Session
  • Rev. Leslie Tuller Memorial Scholarship (2014)
  • Dean’s Honors Roll Award List (2012)

For more, see my CV.