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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published multiple research papers on natural language processing
- Overall Winner of the Bambara-French Machine Translation Competition
- Led his team to victory in the HACK|BAY 2022 hackathon
- Won in all tasks in the GSK.ai GeneDisco Challenge
Research Experience
- Serving as a Reviewer at Deep Learning Indaba 2023
- Serving as a Reviewer at ICML 2023 Workshop on Structured Probabilistic Inference & Generative Modeling
- Volunteer Expert in the Development of the Nigerian National Artificial Intelligence Policy (NAIP)
- Invited Speaker at KLS Talk webinar hosted by Kabod Group's Language Department
- Partner Organizer for AfriSpeech-200 Automatic Speech Recognition Challenge
- Co-organizer of the 3rd Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning, collocated with EMNLP 2023
- Serving on the Program Committee as a Reviewer at ACL 2023
- Leader of the team `AlphaTeam` winning the Bambara-French Machine Translation Competition
- Co-organizer discussing how to build language technologies for minority/indigenous/endangered languages
Background
Chris Emezue is a mathematician and computer scientist with a passion for languages and improving people's lives with technology. He has spent half a decade designing inclusive AI technologies that better serve the African population. His research areas cut across natural language processing, causality, and reinforcement learning.
Miscellany
Interests include using technology to improve people's lives, with a particular focus on digital and technological representation in Africa.