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Dr. Salomon Kabongo is an AI researcher and the Lead Software Engineer at the State Farm Innovation Group. Backed by a decade of hands-on engineering experience and a strong foundation in Mathematics and Computer Science, he holds a PhD in Computer Science with a specialization in Natural Language Processing from Leibniz Universität Hannover. His core research interests include speech translation, information extraction, and the integration of knowledge graphs into deep learning architectures. In his current industry role, he leads R&D initiatives and has invented novel computer vision applications resulting in four pending patent filings.
A passionate advocate for democratizing AI, Dr. Kabongo sits on the board of the Masakhane Research Foundation. In this capacity, he spearheads the Masakhane AI Hub roadmap to build digital public infrastructure for over one billion African language speakers, and oversees the execution of multi-million dollar research funding to advance these global initiatives.
Further information and a full list of publications can be found on his Personal Webpage and Google Scholar.
Research Interests
My research interests include but not limited to:
- Natural Language Processing
- Automatic Speech Translation especially for low resources languages
- Automatic Speech Recognition
- Machine Translation
- Deep learning
- Inserting Knowledge Graph in DL architectures
- Knowledge Graph and Information Extraction
Talks and Presentations
- Introduction to Natural Language Processing, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa.
- The Transformer, From RNN to Attention, Data Science for Social Impact Research Group, Lab meeting 17 April 2020, Pretoria, South Africa, Youtube recording, slides.
News
- [November 2025] Travelled back to Germany to defend my PhD :).
- [Deceber 2021] We won the ICADL 2021 Best Paper Award .
- [February 2021] I got married :) and happyly enjoying my married life.
- [Nov 2020] Thrilled to announce that I joined @l3s_luh/@TIBHannover Research lab and started my Ph.D. at Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH).
- I Recently participate in the Google hash code 2020, our team was ranked 1747/10724 on the online competition.
- [Jun 2020] I was accepted into the DLRL Summer School 2020 hosted by CIFAR and Mila
- I recently participate in the Google hash code 2020, our team was ranked 1747/10724 on the online competition.
- Member of the Association for Computing Machinery, ACM FCA. I was among the 36 new members (October 2019) selected from hundreds of very competitive applications, from academic institutions, research labs, and companies all over the world invited to participate in the ACM Future of Computing Academy (FCA) for a duration of 3 years.
Contacts
- Book a call appointment with me here.
- Email: kabongosalomon@gmail.com