Keynotes
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad
Abstract:: TBD
Bio: Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammadis an Advanced Research Fellow and a Google DeepMind Academic Fellow at Imperial College London, where his research focuses on diversity and inclusion in AI. He co-founded HausaNLP to advance natural language research in Hausa and established the Arewa Data Science Academy to offer free AI and data science education to underserved communities in Nigeria.
Julia Kreutzer
Abstract: TBD
Bio: Julia Kreutzer is a Senior Research Scientist at Cohere Labs, where she conducts research on multilingual large language models and their evaluation. Previously, she worked on machine translation, in her previous role at Google Translate, and during her PhD at Heidelberg University and in collaborations with grassroots NLP communities for lower-resource languages.
Pedro Ortiz Suarez
Abstract: TBD
Bio: Pedro Ortiz Suarez is a senior research scientist at the Common Crawl Foundation known for his work on building large-scale multilingual corpora; he will talk about this complex process, and how to include very low-resource languages.
Monojit Choudhury
Abstract: TBD
Bio: Monojit Choudhury is a professor at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI). His research focuses on the intersection of language technology and society, particularly how foundation models learn and represent linguistic and cultural diversity. His goal is to develop fair, inclusive language technologies and use generative AI to study and model culture on a global scale.
Shixiang Shane Gu
Abstract: TBD
Bio: Shixiang Shane Gu is a Research Scientist in Google DeepMind, where he leads the Multilinguality team in Gemini Post-Training. Previously, he was a researcher in the ChatGPT team at OpenAI and an ex-Research Scientist at Google Research, Brain Team and a Visiting Associate Professor (Adjunct Professor) at the University of Tokyo.