News

• Our paper preprint, Revisiting Cascaded Ensembles for Efficient Inference, was accepted into ICLR ES-FOMO workshop. (Jun 2024)
• Our paper preprint, What Happens When Small Is Made Smaller? Exploring the Impact of Compression on Small Data Pretrained Language Models, was accepted into AfricaNLP, ICLR. (Apr 2024)
• Our paper preprint, Everybody Prune Now: Structured Pruning of LLMs with only Forward Passes, is available on arXiv. (Feb 2024)
• I made my SOP public on cs-sop.org. The platform may be useful for you if you are applying to grad school. (Sep 2023)
• We are organizing a fundraiser for 21 African students to attend Deep Learning Indaba. Donate here. (August 2023)
• I anchored workshops on the topic, "HuggingFace and You", at IndabaX Nigeria and at OSCAFEST. Check my 150 slides here. (Jun 2023)
• Our paper preprint, Vision Transformers for Mobile Applications: A Short Survey, is available on arXiv. (Jun 2023)
• I will be spending the months up till my PhD resumption as a research intern at MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi. UPDATE: Canceled. Visa denied! :( (Mar 2023)
• I will be resuming PhD at CMU in the fall to work on ML Efficiency. (Mar 2023)
• Our paper, Adapting to the Low-Resource Double-Bind: Investigating Low-Compute Methods on Low-Resource African Languages, was accepted into AfricaNLP '23 - collocated with ICLR '23. (Mar 2023)
• I have fulfilled all requirments for my BSc in Computer Science program at the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta. I am now a BSc graduate! (Mar 2023)
• I am invited to speak at Lanfrica Talks in November on my sign language understanding project. Hopefully, my last talk on this topic. :) (Oct 2022)
• We have finally fulfilled the terms of our grant from the Algorand Foundation, and our project, ASAlytics (now Nazari), is finally ready for UAT. (Oct 2022)
• I am invited to speak on my research journey as a URM and how I have been able to build my research collaborations as an independent researcher at NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Broadening Research Collaborations in ML.
• I gave the most hilarious talk of my life (to date) at DataFest Africa on the path to ML mastery. Check my slides here. EDIT: I am invited to present the same talk at DevFest Abeokuta in December. (Oct 2022)
• Ernest talked on our project, ASAlytics (now Nazari), at DataFest Africa 2022 and on how folks can contribute to our open-source model. See slides here. (Oct 2022)
• I will be speaking at Cohere For AI’s Independent Research talk panel. EDIT: Check the video recording here. (Sept 2022)
• I was interviewed by AIHub on my work on sign-to-speech. (Sept 2022)
• Our work on African Sign Languages Translation is a winner of the Indaba Ideathon Challenge. Congrats, Shester and Mardiyyah! (Aug 2022)
• I will be presenting my work on minimizing communication costs in decentralized federated learning using de-mutable torrents at the ML Efficiency workshop at the Indaba. See slides here. (Aug 2022)
• I am organizing an ML Collective’s family & friends dinner at Deep Learning Indaba. Come join us if you are in Tunisia and you've heard of MLC before! (Aug 2022)
• I will present my work on Sign to Speech in sub-Saharan Africa at the “Research in Africa” Showcase Day at Deep Learning Indaba. (Aug 2022)
• ML Collective is organizing a fundraiser for 9 young African researchers to attend Deep Learning Indaba. Donate here. (July 2022)
• I will attend this year’s Deep Learning Indaba. (July 2022)
• Nayan and I are being interviewed by the UofT News on the Sign-to-Speech work. (July 2022)
• I will be speaking at EuroPython Dublin on Prof. Colin Raffel’s call to build models like we build OSS and the progress made in that direction. See slides here. (July 2022)
• My year tenure as the Community Lead for the Google Developer Students Club on my campus is over. A huge shoutout to all my fantastic core team members! (June 2022)
• I am spending two weeks in Europe and visiting Pycon Italia and Berlin Buzzwords while at it. (May 2022)
• My publication on Sign Language Understanding has been accepted as a conference demo at IJCAI, AI for Social Good Track! (April 2022)
• I will speak at PyConDE & Pydata Berlin on my sign-to-speech work. See the video recording here. (April 2022)
• I won the AI Champion award at the Nigeria Computer Society's AI Summit in Nasarrawa, Nigeria, for my work on sign language understanding. (March 2022)
• ASAlytics, our work proposal to build a real-time social media opinion-mining platform for digital assets, has been awarded a ~$115k grant by the Algorand Foundation. (Feb 2022)
• I am resuming my final session in school as a CS undergrad. (Nov 2021)
• I got a full-time role with RectLabs as an AI Research Engineer. (Oct 2021)
• My work on Sign-to-Speech for sub-Saharan Africa has been accepted at the NeurIPS workshop on ML for the Developing World. (Oct 2021)
• I am leaving my community role as the Campus Lead for AI+ FUNAAB as I resume the Community Lead role for my school's Google Developer Student Club.
• My work on sign language understanding won the 2nd Best Poster Award at Data Science Nigeria’s AI Bootcamp. (Oct 2021)
• My research internship with SeqHub Analytics LLC is finally over. (Oct 2021)
• My work on sign-to-speech for real-time usage won DeepQuest's AI Challenge. (July 2021)
• I am leaving my community outreach role as the AI+ City Lead for AI+ Abeokuta. (Jan 2021)
• AI+ Abeokuta won the “AI City of the Year” award; and I was the 1st runner-up to the Mr. Algorithm award at the DSN AI Bootcamp 2020. (Nov 2020)