Abraham Owodunni
I am 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.
Also, I am a research engineer at IntronHealth. At IntronHealth, I work on creating speech technologies to African accents and languages (including MENA). This includes Automatic Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech systems. In lieu with my research interest, I also work robustness and examining the tradeoff between multilinguality and performance. Take a look at my CV for more details about my work with IntronHealth.
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
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! |
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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 |
Oct 29, 2023 | We started MLC-NG - an African subsection of ML Collective, inquire about to the email abraham.owodunni@mlcollective.org. Also read about our activities here. |
Oct 7, 2023 | 2 of our papers got accepted to EMNLP 2023 :sparkles, 1 got rejected! |
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