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CV - David Ifeoluwa Adelani 
David Ifeoluwa Adelani
An Assistant Professor at McGill University, Canada
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CV
- I am an Assistant Professor at McGill School of Computer Science, Canada and a Core Academic Member at MILA, and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair (in 2024). I will be recruiting MSc/PhD students for fall 2025, if you are interested, please apply through MILA’s request for supervision (deadline Decemeber 1, 2024)
- I was formely a Research Fellow (or DeepMind Academic Fellow) at University College London, UK, collaborating with the UCL NLP Group.
- I was formely a PhD Student at the Spoken Language Systems group, Saarland University, Saarland Informatics Campus. I was privileged to be supervised by Prof. Dr. Dietrich Klakow.
- I obtained an MSc in Computer Science from the African University of Science and Technology, Abuja advised by Prof. Mamadou Kaba Traoré, and a BSc in Computer Science from the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria advised by Prof. Adesina Sodiya
Education
- B.Sc. in Computer Science, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Nigeria, 2010
- M.Sc. in Computer Science, African University of Science and Technology Abuja, Nigeria 2014
- Ph.D in Computer Science, Saarland University, 2023 (summa cum laude)
Work experience
- Aug 2024 - Present: Assistant Professor
- McGill School of Computer Science, Canada
- Aug 2024 - Present: Core Academic Member & Canada CIFAR AI Chair
- Mila - Quebec AI Institute, Canada
- Sep 2022 - Jul 2024 : DeepMind Academic Fellow
- University College London, United Kingdom
- Collaborating with UCL NLP Group
- Jan 2019 - Sep 2022 : Reseacher / PhD student
- Saarland University, Germany
- Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dietrich Klakow
- April 2021 - Sep 2021 : Intern
- National institute of Infomatics, Japan
- Supervisor: Prof. Isao Echizen
Publications
See my list of publications
Service and leadership
- Senior Area chair for ACL 2025
- Area chair for EMNLP 2024 ACL 2024, NAACL 2024, EACL 2024, EMNLP 2023, ACL 2023 in Efficiency in NLP or Cross-Lingual NLP track
- Reviewer for EACL 2023, EMNLP 2022, COLING 2022, LREC 2022, WeaSUL @ICLR 2021, NAACL 2021, ARR 2021 - present, AfricaNLP Workshop (2020, 2021)
- Organizer for:
- AfricaNLP at ICLR 2024, 2023, 2022
- Multilingual Representation Learning at EMNLP 2024, 2023
- Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP Workshop 2023
- Foundational Director at Masakhane Research Foundation — grassroots NLP community for Africa}
Full CV
For more information, download my CV