I am a Computer Science Ph.D. student at McGill University & Mila, in the NLP group specializing in Natural Language Processing (NLP) applied to low-resource languages (specifically African) and Healthcare. I hold a Bachelor of Science with honors in Mathematics, from Kazan Federal University, Russia, and a Master of Science with honors in Computer Science and Data Engineering from Jacobs University Bremen, Germany.

My interests are in Natural Language Processing (Machine Translation, Large Language Modeling, Speech Recognition, Information Retrieval) for low-resourced languages and Machine Learning for Healthcare (Drug Discovery, small molecule generations, gene therapy). I am the creator of many Afro-centric NLP systems like the FFRTranslate, AfroLM, and Okwugbe ASR Python library.

Before my PhD, I was a research intern at the Mila Quebec AI Institute, working on Drug Discovery projects using Deep Learning (and Generative Flow Networks aka GFlowNets) under the supervision of Yoshua Bengio and Dianbo Lui. I was also an NLP Researcher at Google Research, an NLP Data Scientist at Roche Canada, and a Research Scientist at ModelisLabs, working on Health/Pharma-related challenges.