Scholar
David Sasu
Google Scholar ID: T1kmTTcAAAAJ
PhD student
Citations & Impact
Citations
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H-index
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Publications
6
Co-authors
6
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published multiple papers, including but not limited to: 'Akan Cinematic Emotions (ACE): A Multimodal Multi-party Dataset for Emotion Recognition in Movie Dialogues'. Has a Master's thesis titled 'Multi-lingual and Cross-lingual Automatic Prosodic Annotation', graded 12/12 (Highest Possible Grade); and a Bachelor's thesis titled 'A Functional NLP Speech System For Akan Using Limited Data', graded A+ (Highest Possible Grade). Selected awards include the Student Excellence Award and Innovation Award from Ashesi University.
Research Experience
- During his PhD, he was a Ph.D. Student Researcher at Apple in the Machine Learning Research organization and also worked as a Visiting Researcher at Columbia University in the Spoken Language Processing Group.
Education
- PhD: NLPnorth research unit within the Computer Science Department at the IT University of Copenhagen, advised by Dr. Natalie Schluter; M.S.: Computer Science from the IT University of Copenhagen; B.S. summa cum laude: Computer Science from Ashesi University.
Background
- Currently a Post-doctoral Research Scientist at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and also the Technology Director for the Laboratory of Intelligent Global Health and Humanitarian Response Technologies (LiGHT), which is jointly based at EPFL and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health via Ariadne Labs. Also an Archer-Cornfield Fellow at Ashesi University. In his role at LiGHT, he contributes to research that is focused on building equitable, reliable AI for high-stakes health decisions, especially in low-resource settings, by combining clinical expertise, rigorous evaluation, and diverse datasets to reduce bias.
Miscellany
- Outside of research, he loves to read books and practice martial arts (Shotokan karate and Brazilian jiu-jitsu).
