Selected Projects

Open-source contributions, research platforms, and side projects.

Mozilla Open Source Support Award

Masakhane Web Platform

A Mozilla-funded web platform for African language translation — similar to Google Translate but focused exclusively on African languages made available by the Masakhane community.

NLPMachine TranslationAfrican LanguagesWeb
280+ Citations · EMNLP Findings 2020

Masakhane Initiative

Putting African researchers from across the continent together to build translation models for African languages. Masakhane means "We Build Together" in isiZulu.

NLPAfrican LanguagesCommunityResearch
ICADL 2021 Best Paper Award

ORKG Leaderboards

Engineered the Leaderboards feature for the Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) to automatically track and visualize state-of-the-art progress across scientific publications using Knowledge Graphs.

Knowledge GraphsNLPScholarly IEPython
NeurIPS 2021 Black in AI Workshop

LiSTra Speech Translation

The first English-to-Lingala automatic speech translation dataset and baseline. Released a full pipeline for constructing similar datasets in other low-resource languages.

ASRSpeech TranslationLingalaLow-Resource NLP

CNN Dog Breed Classifier

A Convolutional Neural Network that performs better than average humans at identifying dog breeds. Also produces an estimate of the closest-resembling dog breed for human photos.

Computer VisionCNNPyTorch

Face Generation with DCGAN

Generating realistic face images using Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks (DCGAN) — a pair of competing multilayer neural networks.

Generative AIGANComputer VisionPyTorch