Welcome to my GitHub! 🎉 I'm an NLP researcher passionate about advancing technology for low-resource African languages. My work focuses on creating datasets, tools, and resources for these languages to foster inclusivity and diversity in AI and NLP.

• Position: Advanced Research Fellow and Google DeepMind Academic Fellow at Imperial College London.
• Education:
  • PhD in Computer Science, University of Porto, Portugal.
  • MS in Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK.
  • BSc in Computer Science, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria.
• Co-founder:
  • HausaNLP - Advancing NLP for the Hausa language.
  • Arewa Data Science Academy - Providing free AI education to underserved students in Nigeria.

• Research: Low-resource NLP, sentiment analysis, hate speech detection, emotion analysis, LLM, and LLM evaluation from the lense of cultures.
• Projects:
  • Bridge: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection.
  • AfriHate: Hate and abusive language classification in African languages.
  • AfriSenti: Sentiment Analysis for African languages.
  • NaijaSenti: Sentiment analysis for Nigerian languages.
  • AfriEmo: Emotion analysis for African languages.
  • SemEval Shared Tasks: Co-organizer to tasks on African language such as AfriSenti-SemEval, Semantic Relatedness, and Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection.

• Hausa Dictionary : An online lexicon providing standardized Hausa definitions, examples, and usage.
  🔗 https://kamusunhausa.hausanlp.org/

• Hausa Catalogue : A centralized repository indexing datasets, benchmarks, and resources for Hausa NLP research.
  🔗 https://catalog.hausanlp.org

• Annotate : A lightweight web-based annotation platform for text classification, translation, and sequence labeling.
  🔗 https://annotate.hausanlp.org

• NLPQuiz: https://nlpquiz.hausanlp.org/auth/login

• SpeechAnnotation Bot A Telegram-based tool for collecting speech data in low-connectivity environments; optimized for mobile users.
  🔗 Telegram Bot for Hausa speech data collection

• Personal Website | Email: [shamsuddeen2004 at gmail.com] | Twitter | LinkedIn
• Research Portfolio: Explore my publications, collaborations, and research contributions on Google Scholar
• Collaboration Opportunities: I am open to collaborative projects and partnerships aligned with my research interests in NLP, AI for low-resource languages, and cultural perspectives in AI.