Hey, I’m Derguene !

NLP Research Engineer & Community Builder 🤗
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CS P.h.D Student

I am a 2nd year Ph.D. student at ESP of Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar under the supervision of Mr. Diallo. I am a recipient of the Google Ph.D. Fellowship 2021 in the Natural Language Processing section and I am currently working with my mentor Clara Riveira, Global Program Lead for Language Inclusivity at Google AI.

My research work revolves around Task-oriented Dialogue Systems for Low-Resource Languages. I target Wolof as a case study but I am more generally interested in African Languages, hence my integration in Masakhane. I am a co-founder of the GalsenAI community and I love meeting new people, sharing, and discovering new experiences.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me on Twitter 😉

Education

PhD in Computer Science

November 2020 - February 2024
Ecole Superieure Polytechnique de Dakar

Engineering Degree in Networks & Telcos

October 2017 - July 2020
Ecole Superieure Polytechnique de Dakar

Associate's Degree in Networks & Telcos

October 2015 - July 2017
Ecole Superieure Polytechnique de Dakar

High-School Science Degree

October 2012 - August 2015
Sergent Malamine Camara High-School of Dakar

Expertise

Natural Language Processing

Dialog Systems, NLU, Machine Translation, Language Models, Cross Lingual Transfer Learning
Information Retrieval, Semantic Parsing, Intent Classification, NER

Research and Development

Functional Analysis, State of the Art, Experiments
Team Management, Technology Watch, Communication

Recent & Upcoming Talks

My Projects

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Contact Me

Get In Touch

Tell me about your project and how I can help you. Or if you are looking for the best Data Science profiles for your company - send me a message at the following email address.

  • contact[at]derguene[dot]sn

  • +221 77 733 80 38

  • Dakar, Senegal