I am currently a PhD student in the NLPnorth research unit within the Computer Science Department at the IT University of Copenhagen advised by Dr. Natalie Schluter and also a Student Researcher in Machine Learning Research at Apple. I have also worked in different capacities as a Natural Language Processing Research Intern at PRC-Saltillo and Analyse&Tal , respectively.
My current research interest covers the field of Speech and Language Processing for low resource languages, with an interest in African Languages.
In Speech Processing, I am currently exploring how suprasegmental data in speech can be efficiently extracted and applied to improve natural language systems.
I received my B.S. summa cum laude in Computer Science from Ashesi University and my M.S. in Computer Science from the IT University of Copenhagen.
OTHER INTERESTS OUTSIDE OF RESEARCH:
Outside of research I love to read books and practice martial arts(Shotokan karate and Brazilian jiu-jitsu).
Prosodically annotated speech corpus for Low-resource Ghanaian Languages
M.Sc thesis: Multi-lingual and Cross-lingual Automatic Prosodic Annotation
Grade: 12/12
B.Sc thesis: A Functional NLP Speech System For Akan Using Limited Data
Grade: A+
Student Excellence Award - Ashesi University
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Favourite choice: Man's search for meaning by Victor Frankl
Favourite choice: Becoming by Michelle Obama