presentations

2025

• November: Poster Presentations @ EMNLP 2025, Suzhou
  Presented a poster in the Ethics, Bias and Fairness track at EMNLP, and a poster in the Workshop on Machine Translation Shared Task on Machine Translation for Creole Languages.

• October: Guest Lecture @ School of Informatics, Edinburgh
  Delivered a Guest Lecture on Data Harms, for the School of Informatics 3rd-year undergraduate course on Professional Issues. Slides available on OpenCourse.

• September: Public Engagement @ Doors Open Day 2025, Edinburgh Futures Institute
  Presented interactive exhibits at EFI Doors Open Day, including a pilot study on how members of the public rate LLMs for gender biased outputs.

• August: Poster Presentation @ Machine Translation Marathon 2025, Helsinki
  Presented a poster on our submission to the WMT 2025 Creole Machine Translation Shared Task.

• June: Research Talk @ StatMT, University of Edinburgh
  Gave a research talk at the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics StatMT weekly group meeting on my work on multilingual gender bias detection in LLMs.

• June: Poster Presentations @ University of Sheffield Speech and Language Technologies Annual CDT Conference, 2025 Presented a poster at the University of Sheffield Speech and Language Technologies Annual CDT Conference

• May-June: Poster Presentations @ Various University of Edinburgh events
  Presented a poster at the UKRI AI Centres for Doctoral Training in Natural Language Processing Partners Summit, The School of Informatics Research Day and the Gender.Ed Research Showcase.

• May: Oral Presentation @ LoResMT Workshop at NAACL, New Mexico
  Oral Presentation on our paper, ‘Limitations of Religious Data and the Importance of the Target Domain: Towards Machine Translation for Guinea-Bissau Creole’ at LoResMT 2025. Pre-recorded video available here - Slides; live talk here (starts at 02:38:05).

• April: Public Engagement @ AI for all Event, Edinburgh
  Presented a poster and interactive exhibits at AI for all: Designing Responsibly, part of the Edinburgh Science Festival programme. Photos and resources available here.

• February: Oral presentation @ TexneCON 2025, MIT
  Pedagogy talk on our WiP, ‘Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing: translating responsibility in AI through interdisciplinary reflection’ at MIT TexneCon 2025. Slides available here.

2024

• April: Poster Presentation @ BCS Women Ada Lovelace Colloquim, Liverpool
  Presented a poster on Approaching the English NLP singularity: is it too late for low-resource languages? at the BCS Women Ada Lovelace Colloquim, Liverpool, UK. Won 2nd prize in the Masters’ students category 🏆.

• December: Panel Discussion @ UN Internet Governance Forum 2024
  Invited speaker on a panel event on ‘Defending Voice and Expression in Africa and the Middle East’ with Global Partners Digital and Meta’s AMET Stakeholder Engagement Team, speaking on cybercrime legislation and freedom of expression at United Nations Internet Governance Forum, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (participated virtually).

2023

• May: Virtual Panel Discussion @ Center for Democracy and Technology, Washington D.C.
  Invited speaker for a virtual panel titled ‘Mind the Language Gap: NLP Researchers & Advocates Weigh in on Automated Content Analysis in Non-English Languages’ hosted by the Center for Democracy and Technology.

• June: Panel Discussion @ RightsCon 2023, San Jose
  Moderated a panel discussion on ‘Internet shutdowns “covering up” human rights violations: Trends in Africa and the Middle East’ co-hosted with Meta’s AMET stakeholder engagement team at RightsCon in San Jose, Costa Rica.

2022

• December: Panel Discussion @ UN Internet Governance Forum 2022, Addis Ababa
  Invited speaker for a panel discussion on ‘Do Diverging Platform Regulations Risk an Open Internet?’, convened by Chatham House’s Digital Society Initiative at the United Nations Internet Governance Forum in Addis Ababa.