David Ifeoluwa Adelani
Scholar

David Ifeoluwa Adelani

Google Scholar ID: W9sTkS0AAAAJ
McGill University and Mila - Quebec AI Institute and Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Natural language processingMultilingualityMultilingual NLPAfricaNLPLow-resource NLP
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
4,933
 
H-index
28
 
i10-index
49
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
84
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published multiple papers in top-tier conferences such as EMNLP, ASRU, ACL, NAACL, TMLR, NeurIPS. Won several awards, including the Best Resource Paper Award at ACL 2025 and the Best Task Award at SemEval-2025 task 11.
Research Experience
  • Former DeepMind Academic Fellow at UCL; currently an Assistant Professor at McGill University, supervising several PhD and MSc students.
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science from Saarland University
Background
  • An Assistant Professor at McGill School of Computer Science, Canada, a Core Academic Member at MILA, and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair (in 2024). Research focuses on multilingual NLP and Speech processing, especially for low-resource languages.
Miscellany
  • Favorite Quote: 'Anything you find your hands doing, do it with all your might' (since 2006)