CV

Education

• M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University 2024 (expected)
• BSc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Nairobi, 2023

Work experience

• Summer 2024: Research Intern
  • Carnegie Mellon University Africa
  • Research Project: Federated Learning with Noisy Labels
  • Supervisor: Joao Barros

Skills

• Programming: Python, C, C++, MATLAB, Bash
• ML Software: PyTorch, ESPnet, NumPy
• Hardware: Altium, Verilog

Publications

ColBERT Retrieval and Ensemble Response Scoring for Language Model Question Answering
Alex Gichamba, Tewodros Kederalah Idris, Brian Ebiyau, Eric Nyberg, Teruko Mitamura
(Preprint)
Link: arXiv

ESPnet-SPK: full pipeline speaker embedding toolkit with reproducible recipes, self-supervised front-ends, and off-the-shelf models
Jee-weon Jung, Wangyou Zhang, Jiatong Shi, Zakaria Aldeneh, Takuya Higuchi, Alex Gichamba, Barry-John Theobald, Ahmed Hussen Abdelaziz, Shinji Watanabe
Accepted at Interspeech 2024
Link: arXiv

Teaching

• Fall 2024: Graduate Teaching Assitant
  • Carnegie Mellon University
    
  • Introduction to Deep Learning
    
  • Instructor: Professor Bhiksha Raj

Professional Memberships

• IEEE (graduate) student member, 2020 - Present
• International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Student Member, 2024 - Present