Edward Ajayi

Publications

Research Interests: Socially Aware AI, Multimodal AI, Humor Generation and Detection, AI for Mental Health

I work as an NLP Research Associate at the Spatial and Language Technologies Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on developing AI systems that understand human communication with social awareness, cultural nuance, LLM evaluation, and multimodal ML.

Publications

HumorGen: Cognitive Synergy for Humor Generation in Large Language Models via Persona-Based Distillation

E. Ajayi and P. Mitra
Submitted to EMNLP 2026 • PDF

HumorRank: A Tournament-Based Leaderboard for Evaluating Humor Generation in Large Language Models

E. Ajayi and P. Mitra
Submitted to AAAI 2027 • PDF

A Machine Learning Approach for Detection of Mental Health Conditions and Cyberbullying from Social Media

E. Ajayi, M. Kachweka, M. Deku, and E. Aiken
AAAI AIMedHealth Bridge 2026 (Oral Presentation) Best Paper Award PMLR arXiv

Language Diversity: Evaluating Language Usage and AI Performance on African Languages in Digital Spaces

E. Ajayi, B. Tadele, E. Umwari, M. Deku, P. Singadi, C. Edeh, and J. Udahemuka
Accepted to Deep Learning Indaba 2026 • PDF • arXiv

Cross-Lingual Cognitive Synergy for Constrained Humor Generation in LLMs

E. Ajayi and P. Mitra
Accepted to CLEF 2026 Joker Track • PDF

Automatic Humor Detection: A Comprehensive Survey from Theoretical Foundations to Large Language Models

E. Ajayi and P. Mitra
Submitted to ACM Computing Surveys

AfriEconQA: A Benchmark Dataset for African Economic Analysis based on World Bank Reports

E. Ajayi and P. Bakare
Submitted to AAAI 2027 • PDF

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