Edward's Publications

Research Focus

I work as an NLP Research Associate at the Spatial and Language Technologies Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, with research focused on:

Social Intelligence in AI Multi-Agent Systems Computational Humor LLM Reasoning & Evaluation

Publications

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

E. Ajayi and P. Mitra

Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026, Main Conference) To Appear

PDF arXiv Project Site 14 Models

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

E. Ajayi and P. Mitra

The 41st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2027) Under Review

PDF arXiv Live Leaderboard

Best Paper Award Oral Presentation

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

Edward Ajayi, Martha Kachweka, Mawuli Deku, and Emily Aiken

Proceedings of the Second AAAI Bridge Program on AI for Medicine and Healthcare, PMLR 317:15–26, 2026 Published

PMLR Proceedings 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

Deep Learning Indaba 2026 Research Track, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR) To Appear

PDF arXiv

Winner, CLEF 2026 JOKER Task 4

Cross-Lingual Cognitive Synergy for Constrained Humor Generation in Large Language Models

E. Ajayi and P. Mitra

Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2026 Working Notes), CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS) To Appear

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AfriEconQA: A Benchmark for Quantitative and Temporal Reasoning over World Bank Economic Reports

Edward Ajayi, Mustapha Alaba & David Stephen

The 41st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2027) Under Review

PDF Dataset Explorer

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

E. Ajayi and P. Mitra

ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) Under Review

PDF ResearchGate

Profiles

Research Inquiries & Collaborations

Working on Social Intelligence in AI, Multi-Agent Systems, or Computational Humor? I'm always open to discussing new ideas or exploring research collaborations.