CV
Education
- B.S. in Computer Science, University of Nairobi, 2008
- M.S. in Language and Computer Technology, Saarland University, 2011
- Ph.D in Computational Linguistics, Saarland University, 2019
Work experience
- Jan 2020 - date: Lecturer (Computer Science)
- Maseno University, Kisumu.
- Duties include: Heading the post-graduate programme activities in the Department of Computer Science, Coordinating student project activities at 3rd and 4th year level.
- Oct 2014 – Dec 2019: PhD Researcher (“Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin”) at Saarland University
- Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, Germany.
- My current research focused on Knowledge acquisition, Topic modeling, Supervised and Semi-supervised learning.
- Jul 2012 – Oct 2019: Tutorial Fellow
- Maseno University, Kisumu
- Duties included: Curriculum development, teaching, and grading, Organizing and conducting programming hackathons for Bachelor students, Mentoring, and Supervising student projects
- Courses taught: Object Oriented programming with Java, Essentials of Artificial Intelligence, Data mining, Information retrieval, Probability and Statistics, Automata theory, Discrete mathematics.
- Jan 2012 – Jun 2012: Lecturer
- Inoorero University - ICT, Nairobi.
- Courses taught: Object Oriented Analysis and Design with UML, Event Driven programming, Programming with Java
- Oct 2011 – Jun 2012: Part time Lecturer
- University of Nairobi, Nairobi.
- Courses taught: Knowledge based systems, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Mar 2011 – Aug 2011: Project Intern
- Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK, University of Trento, (HLT group - Natural Language Processing). Trento, Italy.
- Duties included: My research was on extracting and evaluating relational patterns extracted from Wikipedia in entailment based QA over Linked Data.
- Employed Dec 2009 – Jul 2010: Intern
- Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Saarbruecken, Germany.
- Duties included:
- Maintain corpora lists and descriptions for various projects within Computational Linguistics Department (Uds) and DFKI (Uds):
- create a disc system that all relevant groups on campus could mount.
- put all corpora on campus on that list and update wiki entries
- make a procedure of how to add/order new corpora to the Disc
- Nov 2008 - Sept 2009: Junior Project Manager
- Voxiva (acquired by Wellpass), Nairobi
- Duties included:
- Elicit system requirements from customers.
- Develop AS-IS and TO-BE document solutions as deliverables.
- Proactively communicate and collaborate with customers.
- Track technical progress of projects.
- Plan, schedule, and monitor the inventory of the project products and materials.
- Projects: Farmchem Application, PSI Application (Population Services International)
- Aug 2007 – Oct 2007: Intern
- Barclays Bank, Nairobi
- Duties included: Processing e-box messages, inward swift messages/payments, posting of inward TT payments, Processing and Mailing customer advices
Skills
- Natural Language Processing
- Programmig
- Research
- Teaching
Publications
Talks
Teaching
Service and leadership
- Currently chair of postgraduate studies department of Computer Science, Maseno University.
