The people
Our team
KenyaNLP is powered by a passionate, multi-institutional community of researchers, engineers, and language advocates.
Project leadership
Dr. Everlyn Asiko
Project Co-Lead & Evaluation Pipeline Lead
Research Scientist & PhD Candidate, UCT · Lelapa AI
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Dr. Clemencia Siro
Project Co-Lead & Data Sourcing Lead
Postdoctoral Researcher · Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
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Affiliated institutions
Universities
University of Nairobi · Dedan Kimathi · Maseno University
Industry
Microsoft Research · Guild Code · Google (compute credits) · Meraki Digital Solutions
Research networks
Masakhane · KenCorpus · Mozilla Common Voice · Zindi · Lacuna Fund
23+ contributors and growing. Every skill is welcome.
See how to contributeOpen roles
We're actively looking for contributors in these areas:
Kenyan language speakers
Native speakers for annotation, validation, and cultural review
ML/NLP researchers
Model evaluation, fine-tuning, and benchmarking experiments
Data engineers
Dataset cleaning, pipeline development, and HuggingFace integration
Research writers
Paper drafting, literature reviews, and conference submissions
Speech/ASR specialists
Audio data collection and automatic speech recognition work
Community organizers
Event coordination, outreach, and partnership development