Stephen Kiilu is a machine learning researcher. I am a second-year master’s student pursuing the African Master’s in Machine Intelligence (AMMI 2022) at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), Senegal. AMMI is a novel, fully funded, intensive graduate program in machine learning and its applications, sponsored by Google and Meta. Prior to joining the AMMI program, I graduated with an M.Sc. in Mathematical Sciences from AIMS Rwanda in 2021. My background is in statistics, and I hold a B.Sc. in Applied Statistics with IT from Maseno University with first-class honors.

My primary research interest is in machine learning. Within machine learning, I’m generally interested in the intersection of NLP and machine learning. In particular, I am interested in exploring topics in NLP like language models, multilingual models, and low-resource NLP.

In other news, I am very passionate about ML community, teaching, learning and research. I enjoy running and traveling.

News:

• May, 2023: Co-organizer Practical Machine Learning for Developing Countries Workshop at ICLR 2023, Kigali, Rwanda.
• Aug, 2022: Co-organizer TrustAI Workshop at Deep Learning Indaba, Tunis..
• Aug, 2022: Serve as a programme committee for the Deep Learning Indaba, Tunis.