Experience
Work experience
2024-Present: Postdoctoral Researcher
- Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Dialogue Systems and Machine Learning Group
- Lamarr Fellow Network Ramp Up Project
- Lecturing: Implementing Transformer Models Practical Series
2019-2024: Doctoral Candidate and Research Scientist
- Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Doctoral Candidate in the Dialogue Systems and Machine Learning Group
- Lecturing: Implementing Transformer Models Practical Series
2018-2019: AI Consultant
- NGA Risksecure, Pretoria, South Africa
- Consultation on AI solutions
- Implementation of AI solutions
- Projects: Natural Language Processing for Risk Security, Image Classification for plant disease detection
2016-2018: Teaching assistant
- University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
- Tutorial and Practical Lectures
- Grading of Papers and Assignments
- Modules: Distribution Theory, Stochastic Processes, Actuarial Statistics\
Professional Activities
- Member of the ConvLab 3 toolkit development team, 2020 - Present
- Organizer of the Dialogue Systems and Machine Learning Seminar Series, 2023 - Present
- Reviewer for ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, SIGDIAL, and others, 2020 - Present
- Lecturer and Designer of the Master’s Course “Implementing Transformer Models”, 2023-2024
- Co-organiser of the Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS) 2022
- Supervisor of the Dialogue Reward Estimation Project within the Dialogue Systems and Machine Learning group, 2021-2023
- Lead of the PyDial Python conversion project, 2019
- Co-supervisior of BSc (Hons) Student at the University of the Pretoria, 2017
Service and leadership
- First Tech Challenge Robotics Coach at Woodhill College
- Camera Operator and TV Director at NG Church Moreleta Park
- Camera Operator, TV Director and TV Producer at Hillsong Church Düsseldorf