Key milestones, paper acceptances, awards, talks, and updates from my research and academic journey.
Our paper HumorGen: Cognitive Synergy for Humor Generation in Large Language Models via Persona-Based Distillation was accepted to the Main Conference at EMNLP 2026!
Our submission won the CLEF 2026 JOKER Task 4: Humor Generation across all 3 languages (English, French, and Spanish)!
Our paper Cross-Lingual Cognitive Synergy for Constrained Humor Generation in Large Language Models was accepted to CLEF 2026 Working Notes (CEUR-WS, to appear)!
Our paper Language Diversity: Evaluating Language Usage and AI Performance on African Languages in Digital Spaces was accepted to the Deep Learning Indaba 2026 Research Track, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR)!
Started as an NLP Research Associate at the Spatial and Language Technologies Lab at Carnegie Mellon University.
Gave a talk with the CMU-Africa NLP Group on Beyond the Transformer: How Modern NLP Research Actually Uses Foundation Models.
Graduated with a Master of Science in Engineering Artificial Intelligence from Carnegie Mellon University.
Co-founded and led the establishment of the CMU-Africa NLP Group, bringing together graduate researchers to advance multilingual NLP research.
Our poster on Vision-Based Joint Embedding Architecture for Safe Indoor Navigation won the People's Choice Award at the CMU-Africa Research Showcase 2026.
Our HumorGen open-weight humor ecosystem went live at humorgen.pages.dev, featuring 14 distilled models in the Hugging Face Model Collection.
Our paper Language Diversity: Evaluating Language Usage and AI Performance on African Languages in Digital Spaces was spotlighted by EqualyzAI.
Delivered a Research Talk as Guest Speaker for the 04-632 Mobile Big Data Analytics and Management course at Carnegie Mellon University Africa.
Our paper "A Machine Learning Approach for Detection of Mental Health Conditions and Cyberbullying from Social Media" won the Best Paper Award at the AAAI AIMedHealth 2026 Bridge Program.
Attended The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26) at Singapore Expo for the Oral Presentation of our research paper.
Attended the Cohere Connect Conference.
Started as a Research Assistant at the Spatial and Language Technologies Lab at CMU Africa.
Admitted to Carnegie Mellon University Africa with a fully funded Mastercard Foundation Scholarship for Master's studies in Engineering Artificial Intelligence.