ML/AI Engineer & Researcher | MLH Fellow'23 @ Meta | Drone Hobbyist

Joined January 2016
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🏆 We won the best paper award at AfricaNLP!! Huge shoutout to @AbrahamOwos and the @ml_collective (Nigeria) community, this idea was first shared on our discord. Grateful to see it grow into something impactful.✨
🎉 Our paper was accepted to the AfricaNLP Workshop at ACL 2025! 🇦🇹 In ths work, we investigate how LLMs struggle as typographical noise increases in Yorùbá question answering tasks, unlike their robustness on noisy English text. 📄: bit.ly/3IMuvsx #ACL2025 #AfricaNLP
Having a great time at DatafestAfrica today🤭. I was on the panel session for Open Source AI and I spoke about my GSoC experience😊. What a nice way to spend the weekend 🤤👌. #DataFestAfrica2025
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Don't worry, we've updated the bio 😉
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Exciting News!! 🎊 I still can’t believe I have a Generative AI in Data Analysis Masterclass sponsored by the University of Miami! But I doooo! 😁 I poured my heart and soul into creating this masterclass. It covers: * Prompt Engineering * Data Generation, Cleaning & Viz [1/4]
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
Update: PARALLELPROMPT accepted to #NeurIPS2025 D&B! 🎉 Excited to share this work on intra-query parallelism with the community, and to have it recognized at such a prestigious venue. So grateful for this amazing collaboration and my first NeurIPS acceptance!
🧵THREAD Can we automatically identify parallelizable structure within LLM queries for massive efficiency gains? 10% of real prompts are parallelizable-> ~5x speedups w/ >90% quality preserved. For ChatGPT's 1B+ queries: 100M+ optimization opportunities. Full suite below🧵
Don't forget to join us tomorrow, September 16th for a session with @paul_okewunmi as he discusses "When Typos Break AI: Testing the Limits of LLM Robustness in Low-Resource Languages" Learn more: cohere.com/events/cohere-lab…
Our Regional Africa Group is looking forward to hosting @paul_okewunmi for a session on "When Typos Break AI: Testing the Limits of LLM Robustness in Low-Resource Languages" on Tuesday, September 16th. Thanks to our program leads @katomubirusteve and @Bronsn4 for organizing this event! 🔥 Learn more: cohere.com/events/cohere-lab…
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I’m super excited about this one! 🎉 Next Tuesday, I’ll be joining the @Cohere_Labs Community to share insights from our paper “Evaluating Robustness of LLMs to Typographical Noise in Yorùbá QA.” Big thanks to @katomubirusteve and @Bronsn4 for putting this together!
Our Regional Africa Group is looking forward to hosting @paul_okewunmi for a session on "When Typos Break AI: Testing the Limits of LLM Robustness in Low-Resource Languages" on Tuesday, September 16th. Thanks to our program leads @katomubirusteve and @Bronsn4 for organizing this event! 🔥 Learn more: cohere.com/events/cohere-lab…
Update!: I'm back in school folks. If you're looking for me, I’ve been shipped to @cmu_africa for an MSc in AI. ETA: ~2 years Contents: caffeine, code, engineering, chaotic debugging Goal: Engineer intelligence, not lose mine This journey here has been a wild one, but I want to say a huge thanks to @MastercardFdn for making this possible, believing in young Africans chasing big dreams. And to the mentors, communities, and chaos agents who helped me get here 🙌, I’m deeply grateful. Still building. Still learning. Still dreaming. Mediocrity is the enemy🚀🌍 #CMUAfrica #AIforAfrica #MastercardFoundation #MachineLearning #TechForGood #GradSchoolLife
Every promising African talent in AI should get in here!!!! This program was a game changer for me and it can be for you too! Feel free to reach out if you need help.
Applications are now open for the next cohort of the Cohere Labs Scholars Program! 🌟 This is your chance to collaborate with some of the brightest minds in AI & chart new courses in ML research. Let's change the spaces breakthroughs happen. Apply by Aug 29.
I'm super proud of the amazing work @paul_okewunmi, @FavourJhay and other community members at @ml_collective NG did on this project! You guys deserve this award!!
🏆 We won the best paper award at AfricaNLP!! Huge shoutout to @AbrahamOwos and the @ml_collective (Nigeria) community, this idea was first shared on our discord. Grateful to see it grow into something impactful.✨
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Best paper awards. Congratulations to the authors
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paul retweeted
Its getting closer, Get ready to soar! 🚀 Join the Hackade x DLI 2025 Flight Sponsorship Hackathon & win flights to #DeepLearningIndaba! #GenAI #Africa Thanks to our sponsors @LyngualLabs @JoshUwaifo @Hawk__sa
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🎉 Our paper was accepted to the AfricaNLP Workshop at ACL 2025! 🇦🇹 In ths work, we investigate how LLMs struggle as typographical noise increases in Yorùbá question answering tasks, unlike their robustness on noisy English text. 📄: bit.ly/3IMuvsx #ACL2025 #AfricaNLP
paul retweeted
🚀 Hackade x DLI 2025 Flight Sponsorship Hackathon is LIVE! 🏆 Win return flights (up to $2,000) to #DeepLearningIndaba2025! Join now: zindi.africa/competitions/th… Thanks to @Hawk__sa & @LyngualLabs for sponsoring our winners! #GenAI #Africa"
Okay! Here you go! We've launched an opportunity to win a flight sponsorship to attend the @DeepIndaba's #DLI2025. Don't snooze! If you have some GenAI skills, or some unique skills to hack the ARC please jump in. 🙌🌟 It's live on @ZindiAfrica! All you need is a top 3 finish! 😉 zindi.africa/competitions/th…
🚀 Hackade x DLI 2025 Flight Sponsorship Hackathon is LIVE! 🏆 Win return flights (up to $2,000) to #DeepLearningIndaba2025! Join now: zindi.africa/competitions/th… Thanks to @Hawk__sa & @LyngualLabs for sponsoring our winners! #GenAI #Africa"
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ML Collective is bridging the gap in AI by making it possible for these young researchers to attend @DeepIndaba ’s annual conference this year. Please consider supporting these undergrads by donating to this cause. They've all shared their stories in the video from this tweet ❤️.
The opportunity gap in AI is more striking than ever. We talk way too much about those receiving $100M or whatever for their jobs, but not enough those asking for <$1k to present their work. For 3rd year in a row, @ml_collective is raising funds to support @DeepIndaba attendees.