Joan Nwatu

Second year CSE PhD student @UMich

I am a second year Ph.D. student in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor , and a member of the Language and Information Technologies Lab where Professor Rada Mihalcea advises me.

I am interested in improving representation in AI, specifically in computer vision, language and mutlimodal applications.

As much as I enjoy experiencing and learning new things, I love writing about them too. Feel free to check out my blog articles about AI, math, and other exciting topics!

Recent News

April 2024: I presented my research at the ASC 15th-Year Anniversary Conference !

Feb 2024: 2 Papers I co-authored got accepted to COLING 2024

Has It All Been Solved? Open NLP Research Questions Not Solved by Large Language Models Annotations on a Budget: Leveraging Geo-Data Similarity to Balance Model Performance and Annotation Cost

Feb 2024: I passed my Prelims!

I am now a PhD Candidate!

Oct 2023: My very first research paper was accepted to EMNLP 2023!

Bridging the Digital Divide: Performance Variation across Socio-Economic Factors in Vison-Language Models will appear at the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. See you in Sentosa Island, Singapore!!

Education

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Expected graduation in 2027 with Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering

University of Nigeria, Nsukka

Graduated in 2019 with B.Eng. in Electronic Engineering

Research and Publications

Has It All Been Solved?

Annotations on a Budget

Bridging the Digital Divide

Latest Blog Posts

Get in touch

If you would like to discuss research or hangout or explore a wholesome new activity, do not hesitate to reach me.

jnwatu@umich.edu
Ann Arbor, Michigan
USA