Ndapa Nakashole 🔊

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), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) more broadly. 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.