Education
University of Zambia
2019 — 2022Bachelor of Computer Science (Software Engineering)
Experience
QuantStack Technologies
Dec. 2024– PresentSoftware Engineer
Ipahive Inc.
Sept.2023 — Dec.2023Software Engineer Intern
Institute for Health Measurement(IHM) Southern Africa
Jan. 2023 – Jul. 2023Software Engineer Intern
Project & Research Experience
Research Assistant, Zambezi Voice Project
2022 - 2023University of Zambia
- Collaborated on collection of textual and spoken data for underrepresented Zambian languages.
- Led management of data for a specific language.
- Performed data exploration, cleaning, and validation.
- Built speech corpora for low-resource languages.
- Fine-tuned and evaluated pretrained models.
- Contributed to research reports and experimental results.
Undergraduate , Capstone Project
Mar. 2022 - Nov. 2022University of Zambia
- Collected text and speech data to build a speech corpus.
- Fine-tuned Wav2Vec2.0 and OpenAI Whisper models.
- Improved ASR performance for a low-resource language.
- Built a Streamlit demo for speech-to-text conversion.
Publications
Zambezi Voice: A Multilingual Speech Corpus for Zambian Languages
Sikasote, C., Siaminwe, K., Mwape, S., Zulu, B., Phiri, M., ... & Anastasopoulos, A.
INTERSPEECH 2023 20-24 August 2023, Dublin, Ireland, 2023
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