Abraham Owodunni

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I am an incoming Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University where I will be supervised by Prof. Sachin Kumar. Before that, I was a researcher at IntronHealth during which I work on creating language and speech technologies to African accents and languages (including MENA).

I am also an independent researcher at Masakhane, an open science community where Africans do AI research for Africa. I am primarily interested in investigating novel ways to develop robust multilingual models in resource-constrained settings, particularly using efficient ML techniques.

Beyond the technical aspect of research, I love building and nurturing open science ML communities. You’ll find me around Sisonke Biotik, ML Collective, Cohere4AI and a few others. I firmly believe in democratizing access to knowledge, fostering collaborative ecosystems, and championing the ethos of shared discovery.

news

Jun 4, 2024 2 papers on TTS and STT got accetped to Interspeech 2024! Find them here [1, 2].
Jan 18, 2024 Our papers AccentFold: A Journey through African Accents for Zero-Shot ASR Adaptation to Target Accents got accetped to EACL Finding 2024!
Jan 18, 2024 Our papers AccentFold: A Journey through African Accents for Zero-Shot ASR Adaptation to Target Accents got accetped to EACL Finding 2024!
Nov 25, 2023 I gave a talk at DevFest Abuja titled “Growing AI Talents with Open Science Communities”. Slides
Nov 23, 2023 I got selected for the Diversity and Inclusion Award for EMNLP award 2023

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selected publications

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    Bloom Library: Multimodal Datasets in 300+ Languages for a Variety of Downstream Tasks
    Colin Leong, Joshua Nemecek, Jacob Mansdorfer, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Dec 2022
  2. ICLR: AfricaNLP
    Koya: A Recommender System for Large Language Model Selection
    Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, and Chris Chinenye Emezue
    In 4th Workshop on African Natural Language Processing, Dec 2023