Happy Buzaaba
CDH/African Language Technologies Postdoctoral Research Associate
Ph.D. Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba
Happy Buzaaba is a postdoctoral research associate in African language technologies at the Center for Digital Humanities and the African Humanities Colloquium at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
Happy comes to Princeton from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project in Tokyo, Japan, where he served as a postdoctoral researcher on the Approximate Bayesian Inference Team. He earned his Ph.D. in systems and information engineering from the University of Tsukuba in 2022. In graduate school, Happy worked with Prof. Toshiyuki Amagasa on using machine learning and computational linguistics to explain language and knowledge.
Happy's current research focuses on developing technologies for low-resource African languages.
Related programs
Infrastructure for African Languages
Increasing representation of African languages in NLP, LLMs, and AI
African Languages in the Age of AI (AAA) Speaker Series
Bringing leading scholars to Princeton to discuss the opportunities and challenges for developing technologies that empower African languages
Related projects
Computational Approaches to Nigerian Literature
Experiments in NLP for texts in Yoruba and Efik
African_UD: Universal Dependencies Treebank for African Languages
Increasing the representation of African languages in NLP by creating quality datasets for eleven African languages
Related events
Computational Approaches to Nigerian Literature: Analyzing Texts in Yoruba and Efik at DH2024
Related posts
Millions on the African continent can’t fully benefit from the AI revolution. This Princeton course aims to change that.
17 February 2025
Featured on the Princeton.edu Homepage: CDH Postdoc Happy Buzaaba has devised a new Freshman Seminar based on his research focused on introducing more African languages into LLMs.
