Kelechi O
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolKelechi O is a thesis-based Master's student in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, researching low-resourced NLP with a focus on African languages under Prof. Jimmy Lin. He brings eight years of industry experience as a Machine Learning Research Engineer at InstaDeep, where he applied ML across e-commerce, telecommunications, and biotechnology. Comfortable bridging research and production, he combines empirical rigor with practical deployment to solve real-world client problems. His GitHub and personal website showcase hands-on NLP research and reproducible code, and his Google Scholar profile reflects peer-reviewed contributions in low-resource language modeling. Trained originally as an Industrial and Production Engineer at the University of Ibadan, he blends systems thinking with algorithmic depth. He’s particularly interested in making NLP accessible for underrepresented languages, turning academic insight into applied tools.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Industrial and Production Engineering, Second-Class Upper Division (Honours), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Industrial and Production Engineering, Second-Class Upper Division (Honours) at University of IbadanMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Yoruba, Igbo, English
Github Skills (57)
pidgin10
transformers10
pytorch10
language-model10
python10
creole10
machine-learning10
seq2seq10
flax10
representations10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
bert10
transformer10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
keleog/PidginUNMT
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation from West African Pidgin (Creole) to English without a single parallel sentence
Contributions:35 commits, 3 PRs, 33 pushes in 4 months
nlpsentencepidginafricanmachine-translation
keleog/bbc_pidgin_scraper
May 2020 - Aug 2021
A simple python scraper for BBC Pidgin News - https://www.bbc.com/pidgin
Contributions:6 reviews, 6 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 2 months
pidginpythonbbcpython-scraperpython3
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