I am visiting student at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE and PhD student at Instituto Politécnico Nacional , Mexico.

Research interests

• Natural Language processing (NLP)
• Afro-centric Language models (LLM)
• NLP for low Resource Languages

News

• 1 paper accepted at LREC-COLING 2024 : EthioLLM: Multilingual Large Language Models for Ethiopian Languages with Task Evaluation
• 1 paper accepted at NAACL 2024 :NLP Progress in Indigenous Latin American Languages
• 2 paper accepted at EMNLP 2023 : The Less the Merrier? Investigating Language Representation in Multilingual Models and Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages
• 1 paper accepted at TACL:AfriSpeech-200: Pan-African accented speech dataset for clinical and general domain ASR
• 1 paper accepted at AACL 2023:MasakhaNEWS
• 1 paper accepted at INTERSPEECH 2023: AfriNames: Most ASR models “butcher” African Names