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Idris Abdulmumin

Idris Abdulmumin

Idris Abdulmumin is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pretoria’s Data Science for Social Impact Research Group, specializing in Natural Language Processing (NLP) for underrepresented languages. He holds a PhD from Bayero University Kano, where he focused on using domain awareness, quality estimation, and transfer learning to optimize approaches for leveraging monolingual data to enhance machine translation in low-resource languages. Idris has led and contributed to a range of impactful projects, including developing NLP resources and techniques for tasks such as LLM building, sentiment analysis, emotion analysis, semantic relatedness, hate and offensive speech analysis, machine translation, named-entity recognition, and sentence alignment. He actively collaborates with international research communities such as Masakhane NLP, LITHME, and the Open Language Data Initiative, and has contributed to several shared tasks on Semantic Evaluation, machine translation and speech translation. Idris is passionate about mentoring students and early-career researchers and integrating ethical, human-centric approaches into his work, aligning with his commitment to advancing NLP for social good. His research is driven by the belief that AI should be inclusive and accessible, and he strives to make significant contributions to the field while addressing the needs of underrepresented communities.

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    University of Pretoria
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    Postdoctoral Fellow, Data Science for Social Impact Research Group
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Impact Initiative
In person
31 October 2025
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09:30 - 17:30
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