| May 11, 2024 | I had the privilege to give a talk on ‘Building multimodal datasets for African languages’ at the AfricaNLP 2024 workshop that was co-located with ICLR 2024 conference. See slides! |
| Jan 01, 2024 | We, Antonios and I, are co-organising a Low-resource shared task at IWSLT 2024 for the language pair: IciBemba - English. Please consider participating! |
| Nov 30, 2023 | Recieved the Hasso-Plattner Institute (HPI) scholarship to pursue PhD in Computer Science at University of Cape Town (UCT) in Cape Town, South Africa.  |
| Aug 23, 2023 | Presented our Zambezi Voice paper at INTERSPEECH 2023 in Dublin, Ireland. |
| Jun 12, 2023 | Presented our Lacuna Fund supported work, BIG-C: a Multimodal Multi-Purpose Dataset for Bemba at the AfricAI 2023 conference in Kigali, Rwanda! |
| May 01, 2023 | Our Zambezi Voice paper got accepted to INTERSPEECH 2023 conference to be held in Dublin, Ireland from August 22-24, 2023. |
| Apr 01, 2023 | Our BIG-C dataset paper got accepted to ACL 2023 main conference to be held in Toronto, Canada from July 9-14, 2023. |
| Apr 01, 2022 | Our BembaSpeech paper with Antonios got accepted to LREC 2022 taking place in Marseille on June 22-25, 2022. |
| Apr 01, 2021 | Excited to be awarded a grant by Lacuna Fund to create a Multimodal Dataset for Bemba Language. This is a collaborative work between the University of Zambia and the George Mason University NLP group. |