Teaching & Supervision

Courses taught and student supervision.

Teaching

I teach and design courses across Imperial College London, Bayero University Kano (BUK), and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS). My teaching emphasizes applied machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), and AI for Social Good, with a focus on real-world, low-resource, and culturally grounded applications.

Current Courses

  • Introduction to Python for Data Science — Arewa Data Science Academy Introductory programming and data manipulation using Python, NumPy, and Pandas.
  • Introduction to Machine Learning — Arewa Data Science Academy Foundations of Machine Learning, including supervised and unsupervised techniques.
  • Natural Language Processing & Large Language Models — AIMS South Africa and Cameroon Graduate-level course on natural language processing and large language models.
  • Machine Learning — Imperial College London (TA)

Supervision

I supervise PhD, MSc, and undergraduate students working on topics in NLP for low-resource languages, responsible AI, and cross-cultural language technologies. I also mentor research interns and early-career scholars across Africa through the Arewa Data Science Academy and the HausaNLP community.

Student Supervision

PhD Students
  • Hafiz Imam — Bayero University Kano Topic: Automatic Speech Recognition for African Languages Role: Co-supervisor
  • Murja Gadanya — Bayero University Kano Topic: Emotion Recognition in Low-Resource Languages Role: Co-supervisor
  • Saminu Aliyu — Modibbo Adama University of Technology Topic: Hate Speech Detection in Low-Resource Languages Role: Co-supervisor
  • Musa Adam — Bayero University Kano Topic: LLM Adaptation for African Languages Role: Co-supervisor
MSc Students
  • Maryam Usman — MSc, Bayero University Kano Project: Sentiment Analysis for Hausa Social Media Texts Role: Supervisor
  • Abdulrahman Nuhu — MSc, AIMS South Africa Project: Evaluating Large Language Models for African Dialogue Systems Role: Visiting Supervisor
Undergraduate & Internship Supervision
  • Hafsa Kabir — BSc, Bayero University Kano Project: Dataset Creation for Hausa Text Summarization Role: Academic Supervisor
  • Arewa Data Science Interns — Nigeria Focus: Applied Data Science and Machine Learning Role: Research Mentor & Founder

Alumni Highlights

Over 40+ students mentored across Africa. Alumni have advanced to PhD programs and research roles in Africa, and beyond.

Empowering the next generation of African AI researchers.