Idris Abdulmumin
Associate Research Fellow
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolIdris Abdulmumin is an Associate Research Fellow and NLP researcher with nine years of experience spanning academia and applied data science, currently based in Pretoria. He holds a PhD in Computer Science for work on low-resource machine translation, an MSc in IT Security, and a First Class BSc in Computer Science, combining rigorous research with practical programming skills. Idris has a strong teaching background from high school to university lecturing, and he brings that pedagogical clarity into collaborative research and mentorship roles. His recent postdoctoral work at the Data Science for Social Impact Research Group highlights a focus on using language technologies for societal benefit rather than purely commercial applications. Comfortable moving between algorithm development and software implementation, he is adept at tackling NLP problems where data is scarce and security-aware design matters. Colleagues describe him as a methodical researcher who blends theoretical depth with an ability to translate findings into usable tools.
9 years of coding experience
Master’s Degree IT Security, Master’s Degree IT Security at Nottingham Trent UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Bayero University, Kano
English, Hausa
Github Skills (97)
sentiment-classification10
sentiment10
opennmt10
twitter9
acl9
sentiment-analysis9
annotations9
datasets9
computational-linguistics9
phonetics9
neural-machine-translation9
sequence9
semantic-segmentation9
computer-vision8
shared8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
afrisenti-semeval/afrisent-semeval-2023
Jul 2022 - Feb 2023
AfriSenti-SemEval Shared Task 12: Sentiment Analysis for African languages using Twitter Datasets : https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/7320
Contributions:46 commits, 5 PRs, 37 pushes in 6 months
africanafricanlpnlp-datasetssentiment-analysisafrican-languages
abumafrim/WMT22-MasaKhane
Jun 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:91 pushes in 4 months
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