Postdoctoral researcher at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE. I hold a PhD in Computer Science from Instituto Politécnico Nacional , Mexico, where I was supervised by Prof. Alexander Gelbukh and Prof. Olga Kolesnikova.

Research interests

• NLP for under-resourced languages
• Multilingual language models
• Evaluation benchmarks
• Speech & Multimodal NLP

News

• I will be joining MBZUAI as a Postdoctoral researcher, working with Prof. Thamar Solorio
• 1 paper accepted at NAACL 2025: ProverbEval: Exploring LLM Evaluation Challenges for Low-resourceLanguage Understanding
• 1 paper accepted at NeurIPS 2024 D&B Track: CVQA: Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark
• 2 papers accepted at EMNLP 2024: The Zeno’s Paradox of ‘Low-Resource’ Languages and Walia-LLM: Enhancing Amharic-LLaMA by Integrating Task-Specific and Generative Datasets
• 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