Recent happenings and updates from my academic and research journey.
Started as an NLP Research Associate at the Spatial and Language Technologies Lab, 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's degree 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 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-7B model is now available on Hugging Face.
Our paper Language Diversity: Evaluating AI Performance on African Languages was spotlighted by EqualyzAI. LinkedIn
Gave a Research Talk as Guest Speaker at the 04-632 Mobile Big Data Analytics and Management class at Carnegie Mellon University Africa. LinkedIn
Our paper "A Machine Learning Approach for Detection of Mental Health Conditions and Cyberbullying from Social Media" won the Best Paper Award at AAAI AI in Medicine and Healthcare Bridge Program. See PMLR Proceedings. LinkedIn
Attended The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence at Singapore Expo for Oral Presentation of our paper.
Attended the Cohere Connect Conference.
Our paper "A Machine Learning Approach for Detection of Mental Health Conditions and Cyberbullying from Social Media" (PMLR) accepted for Oral Presentation at AAAI AIHealth Bridge 2026.
Started as a Research Assistant at the Spatial and Language Technologies Lab at CMU Africa.
Attended the Deep Learning Indaba 2025.
View CertificateAttended the Cohere ML Summer School.
View CertificateAttended the Digital Humanities Summer School.
Attended the Global AI Summit on Africa, engaging with leading AI researchers and practitioners across the continent.
Started internship as Business Automation (Agentic AI) Intern at EdGE AI Labs at CMU-Africa.
Participated in the Student Research Showcase at CMU Africa, highlighting my research work.
Kickstarted the Monthly Research Newsletter for the CMU-Africa Research Club as part of presidential initiatives.
Elected as President of the CMU-Africa Research Club, leading research initiatives and fostering academic collaboration among graduate students.
Resumed Master's Program in Engineering Artificial Intelligence at CMU-Africa.
Admitted to CMU-Africa with a fully funded Mastercard Foundation Scholarship for Master's studies in Engineering Artificial Intelligence.