Jean De Dieu Nyandwi
Visiting Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science - Language Technologies Institute
Rwanda
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Top SchoolJean De Dieu Nyandwi is a machine learning and multimodal AI researcher with six years of experience, currently a Visiting Researcher at CMU's Language Technologies Institute focusing on evaluating and improving multimodal LLMs and Visual Language Models. He contributed to high-impact benchmarks and suites such as NaturalBench (NeurIPS 2024) and Pangea (ICLR 2025), helping push open-source models toward parity with closed systems like GPT-4o and Gemini. With an MS in Artificial Intelligence from Carnegie Mellon and a strong teaching and community-building background—teaching deep learning courses and organizing AI meetups in Rwanda—he blends rigorous research with practical mentorship. His open-source work includes a comprehensive machine learning repo with 30+ notebooks that emphasizes accessible introductions and robust data-work, reflecting a commitment to education and reproducible research. Notably, he was the first data scientist at a startup where he shaped AI strategy, showing he moves smoothly between research, product, and community impact.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at Kigali Institute of Science and TechnologyDiploma, Electronics and Telecommunication, Top performer(nation wide), Diploma, Electronics and Telecommunication, Top performer(nation wide) at Nyanza Technical SchoolMaster of Science in Engineering Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, 3.82/4.0, Master of Science in Engineering Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, 3.82/4.0 at Carnegie Mellon UniversityCertificate, Machine Learning, Certificate, Machine Learning at Stanford University
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Github Skills (11)
data-manipulation10
machine-learning10
python10
data-analysis10
documentation9
scikit-learn9
scikit9
decision-tree9
data-visualization8
data-visualisation8
data-visualizations8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Nyandwi/machine_learning_complete
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
A comprehensive machine learning repository containing 30+ notebooks on different concepts, algorithms and techniques.
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:160 commits, 7 PRs, 111 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jean contributed significantly to the machine learning repository, specifically through the creation of an introductory Python notebook, and also by updating and fixing the data manipulation and decision tree notebooks. The user also updated the site and added various documentation materials. This demonstrates the user's focus on providing introductory materials for machine learning concepts and tutorials.
seabornpythonjupyter-notebooktensorflowdata-science
Nyandwi/computer_vision
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:19 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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