Director of AI Engineering at SIL Global, building and evaluating NLP and speech models for low-resource languages.
- Fine-tuning large multilingual models (NLLB, MADLAD, T5Gemma, TranslateGemma) for 50+ low-resource language pairs
- ASR pipelines using MMS-1B and w2v-BERT-2.0 with multi-model ensemble methods
- TTS fine-tuning with SpeechT5 and emotion-controlled training
- Cross-attention word alignment extraction and evaluation
- AQuA — a full-stack translation quality assessment platform with LLM-agentic critique
- Production RAG systems with LlamaIndex and PGVector
- BA Mathematics, Cambridge University
- 10+ years in technical leadership across East Africa before moving into ML
- US citizen based in Poulsbo, WA