About
I am a Senior Lecturer (≈ Assistant Professor) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cape Town. My research area is Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. My current research focuses on language modelling for low-resource languages, modelling knowledge and linguistic structure in text, and creating language resources and models for South African and African languages.
Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington, working with Yejin Choi. I completed my PhD at the University of Oxford, supervised by Phil Blunsom. Before that I obtained Masters and undergraduate degrees in Computer Science at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.
Recent Reviewing (2026)
ACL (SAC), EMNLP (SAC), ARR (AC), CoLM (AC), AAAI (SPC), SACAIR, Computational Linguistics (AE).
UCT Teaching (2026)
CSC2001F Data Structures · CSC3043Z Large Language Models, Probabilistic AI · CSC5035Z Natural Language Processing.
News
- Nov 2026We are hiring: a post-doctoral fellowship in NLP at UCT is available, starting February 2027. Applications close 20 November 2026.
- Oct 2026We received a best paper award at the Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL) Workshop 2026.
- Oct 2026I am a Program Co-Chair for ACL 2027.