Ignatius Ezeani
Hello and thanks for stopping by. I am a computer scientist, an AI and NLP researcher and a Senior Research Associate at the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University.
I work on general AI and NLP models with focus on efficient adaption of existing language models for low-resource languages. My Recent and on-going projects include creating tools and resources to support summarisation, question answering, named entity recognition and machine translation for Igbo, Welsh and other African languages.
My research interests covers a wide-range of NLP techniques and other related areas including corpus linguistics, distributional semantics, machine learning, data science, deep neural models and general AI.
I am also involved in other academic and administrative roles include PhD and MSc supervision, Lacuna Fund Technical Adviser on NLP, organising UCREL Corpus Research seminar.
You can reach me via any of the platforms below for a quick chat. Alternatively, you can check out the other sections of my profile. My full contact details are also available in the Contacts section.
Education
The University of Sheffield, UK.
Bournemouth University, UK.
Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nig.
Experience
Research Associate
I work with the UCREL Research Centre to developing robust frameworks for adapting existing NLP models and techniques for low resource language research. I am interested in meaning abstractions and semantic relationships captured in deep embedding models and exploring efficient methods to improving the accuracy and reliability of the Welsh Semantic Tagger.
Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA)
Involved in the teaching, lab demonstrations and examinations for undergraduate and masters level Computer Science courses which included: Intro to Problem Solving with Python, Objected-Oriented Programming with Java, Data Driven Computing, Functional Programming and Machines and Intelligence.
Lecturer
Teaching and lab demonstration on general Computer Science courses for both diploma, undergraduate and masters students. Student project supervision, research and publications. General administrations.
Interests
Besides research and academics, I try to treat myself as well as I can... and I have a very long bucket list (but that's a story for another day).
Generally, my spare time is filled with activities such as (in no particular order):
- Reading random stuff
- Watching world politics and news
- Following technological advancements
- Listening or watching TED Talks
- Playing with my kids
Skills
My skillset cover a fair but relevant range of programming languages and paradigms, operating systems, project management and production tools, some of which are listed below:
- Scikit-Learn
- Tensorflow
- PyTorch
- Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK)
Publications & Talks
Teaching
Credit: A good part of the materials presented is sourced from this Java Tutorials.| Introduction to Object Oriented Programming with Java |
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Contacts
Email:
i.ezeani@lancaster.ac.uk
Office:
UCREL Research Centre & Data Science Group,
School of Computing & Communications, InfoLab21,
Lancaster University, LA1 4WA,
United Kingdom.
Phone:
+447466534124
Other platforms: