👋 Ndapa Nakashole 🔊
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering | University of California, San Diego
Founder & Chief Scientist of Okalai AI
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Bio:
Ndapa Nakashole is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Ndapa is also the Founder & Chief Scientist of Okalai AI . Her research focuses on natural language processing (NLP), with particular emphasis on multilingual models, interpretability, and AI for healthcare.
Prior to UCSD, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University. She holds a BSc and MSc in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town, and obtained her PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University.
She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the Otto Hahn Medal.
📧 Email: nnakashole[at]ucsd.edu
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