Happy Buzaaba
Ph.D. Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba
Happy Buzaaba is an Associate Research Scholar at the Princeton Language and Intelligence lab, and is affiliated with the CDH, the African Humanities Colloquium, and the Africa World Initiative.
Happy came 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 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
David Ifeoluwa Adelani: Scaling Multilingual Evaluation of LLMs to Many Languages
Global Seminar in Kenya: Technology for African Languages in the Digital Age
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
Jamie Saxon, Happy Buzaaba
