David Ifeoluwa Adelani 🇳🇬

@davlanade

Assistant Professor @mcgillu, Core Academic Member @Mila_Quebec, Canada CIFAR AI Chair @CIFAR_News | interested in multilingual NLP | Disciple of Jesus

Montréal, Canada dadelani.github.io Joined September 2017

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David Ifeoluwa Adelani 🇳🇬 @davlanade Nov 5, 2025

Hallelujah!

I’m excited to share that I’ve been selected as a 2025 AI2050 Early Career Fellow by @Schmidtsciences

This year’s fellows represent 42 institutions across eight countries, working to ensure AI benefits humankind.

Learn more at: lnkd.in/eZA5FHci

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Schmidt Sciences @schmidtsciences Nov 5, 2025

We're excited to welcome 28 new AI2050 Fellows! This 4th cohort of researchers are pursuing projects that include building AI scientists, designing trustworthy models, and improving biological and medical research, among other areas. buff.ly/riGLyyj

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David Ifeoluwa Adelani 🇳🇬 @davlanade Oct 28

Congratulations Prosper @francoisrmeyer and @janmbuys 🎉

Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl_workshop Oct 28

@omerNLP @mdlhx @JumeletJ @ahmetustun89 @Cohere_Labs @linguist_cat Announcing the Best Paper for this year's MRL: RunyaNER - Auxiliary Language Selection for Runyankore NER!

Congratulations to the authors: Prosper Asiimwe, Francois Meyer, Jan Buys!

#MRL26 #EMNLP2026

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David Ifeoluwa Adelani 🇳🇬 @davlanade Oct 15

Recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 2027, please apply if you are interested in Multilingual LLMs

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Mila's annual supervision request process is now open to receive MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2027 admission! For more information, visit mila.quebec/en/prospective…

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David Ifeoluwa Adelani 🇳🇬 @davlanade Sep 21

Join our tutorial on "Multilingual and Multicultural LLMs" at #EMNLP2026

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Slated to give a tutorial on “Multilingual and Multicultural LLMs” 🌍 at EMNLP 2026 with @davlanade @vinodkpg @sarahookr @alan_ritter.

See you in beautiful Budapest — looking forward to connecting with everyone! 👋

#emnlp

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David Ifeoluwa Adelani 🇳🇬 @davlanade Sep 19

🚀 Today, we are excited to share the next step: a series of post-trained AfriqueQwen 3.5 models!

Using a combination of SFT, GRPO, and OPD, our new models deliver impressive results outperforming several open LLMs, including Apertus, TinyAya, Gemma 3, and Sunflower-Qwen 9B. 📈