Olaperi Okuboyejo
[University of Pretoria] [ML] [NLP]
Dr Olaperi Okuboyejo is a Computer Scientist and currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, at the University of Pretoria. She has interests in enabling education with technology, specifically with Artificial Intelligence techniques, including Natural Language Processing. She is keen on developing solutions to enable personalized learning, intelligent tutoring systems, automated assessment and feedback as well as question generation. She is also interested in developing educational systems that enable and support learning in the low-resource African languages, in a bid to make education accessible to a wider audience. She enjoys teaching and mentoring girls interested in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields.