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 COLM 2026 • 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

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

E. Ajayi and P. Bakare
Submitted to ACM SIGIR 2026 • PDF

Automatic Humor Detection: From Theoretical Foundations to LLMs

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

Language Diversity: Evaluating AI Performance on African Languages

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

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