Paul Azunre
Director Of Data Science
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Azunre is an AI researcher-entrepreneur and team builder with eight years of industry experience and a PhD from MIT, focused on deploying practical large-scale NLP, ASR, TTS and computer vision systems. As Co-Founder and Director of Research at Ghana NLP and founder of Algorine he led the development and productization of the first production-grade translation, speech recognition and TTS systems for multiple African languages—outpacing major tech players while serving hundreds of thousands of users via the Khaya app. He pairs deep academic rigor (DARPA principal investigator, published author of a Manning book on transfer learning) with hands-on production engineering across mobile, web and API platforms to deliver profitable, real-world products. At Dun & Bradstreet he bridged research and business impact by applying transformers and classical ML to buyer intent and multilingual news analysis at enterprise scale. Known for mentoring the next generation of African data scientists, he combines optimization and signal-processing roots with modern LLM practice to tackle both foundational research and operational deployment.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyOpoku Ware SchoolBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Bachelor of Art (B.A.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Bachelor of Art (B.A.) at Swarthmore College
Russian, English, twi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
transfer-learning10
translation9
natural-language-processing9
wrapping9
distilbert8
ontologies8
primitive7
text-classification7
thin7
java-server7
nlp7
ubuntu6
heuristics6
tkinter6
vector-space6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
NewKnowledge/duke-d3m-wrapper
Apr 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:7 PRs, 62 pushes, 5 branches in 10 months
GhanaNLP/kasa
Feb 2020 - Jun 2021
English to Twi translation system being put together by the GhanaNLP team
Contributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 4 months
nlptranslationtwienglishnatural-language-processing
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