CV

Education

M.Sc. in Machine Intelligence (AMMI), African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Ghana
- Expected Date: December, 2020
- Master’s Thesis: “Towards an End-to-End Chit-Chat Question Answering”.
- Advisor: Antoine Bordes, Director at Meta AI Research
- Co-advisors: Emily Dinan, Kurt Shuster and Eric Smith, Research Engineers at Meta AI Research
M.Sc. in Computer Science, African University of Science and Technology (AUST) Abuja
- Date: December 2017
- Master’s Thesis: Observatory System for Monitoring Electric Power Demand and Delivery
- Advisor: Prof. David Amos
B.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Federal University of Technology (FUT) Minna
- Date: May 2014
- Undergraduate Project: Design of 33/11 KVA Injection Substation
- Advisor: Engr. A.G Raji

NLP Engineer, Proto (May 2020 to October 2021)
Educator and Head of ICT, Examinations and Records Office, Diocese of Abuja (Anglican Communion) Anglican Girls’ Grammar School, Abuja (Jan 2015 to September 2019)
SIWES Intern, Power Holding Company of Nigeria, Zaria (2012)

Towards an End-to-End Chit-Chat Question Answering: The project aimed at building Transformer-based neural networks for multi-tasking QA and chit-chat tasks and testing generalization to unseen domains using ParlAI. Click here for the pdf.
Speech dataset creation: Built an approximately 2-hours speech corpus in Hausa language for automatic speech recognition using Lig-aikuma, an open source tool. Click here for the pdf.
Machine Translation: Trained baseline model for Hausa language using JoeyNMT toolkit as a contribution to Masakhane, a community that is promoting the representation of low-resource languages.