CV

This is a abridged version of my CV. For a full version, download the attached PDF.

General Information

Full Name Idris Abdulmumin
Date of Birth 25th July 1991
Languages Hausa, English

Education

  • 2023
    PhD
    Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria.
    • Domain-aware Self-learning with Synthetic Data Transfer for Improved Back-translation in Low Resource Neural Machine Translation.
  • 2017
    MSc.
    Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
    • Web Application Security Analysis.
  • 2013
    BSc.
    Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria.
    • Plagiarism Checker, File Comparer and Project Library Software.

Experience

  • 2023 - 2025
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Data Science for Social Impact Research Group, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
    • Developing resource-efficient language models for low-resource languages.
  • 2017 - present
    Lecturer
    Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.
    • Teaching CS, Research and Community Service.

Projects

  • 2023-2024
    SemRel SemEval
    • A semantic evaluation shared task on semantic textual relatedness for 14 languages, including 5 African languages.

Others

  • Hobbies: Research, Football.