Abraham Owodunni
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]. |
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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 |
latest posts
selected publications
- Bloom Library: Multimodal Datasets in 300+ Languages for a Variety of Downstream TasksIn Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Dec 2022
- ICLR: AfricaNLPKoya: A Recommender System for Large Language Model SelectionIn 4th Workshop on African Natural Language Processing, Dec 2023