Omolabake Adenle
Omolabake Adenle | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1982 Lagos State |
| Nationality | Nigeria |
| Education | University of Cambridge |
Omolabake Adenle (born 1982) is a Nigerian engineer, entrepreneur and financial strategist. She is the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AJA.LA Studios, a company that provides digital solutions[clarification needed] to natural African languages.[1] Adenle invented the application software "SpeakYoruba App" which won her an award on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in Voice by the Women In Voice (WiN) 2021[2] and was shortlisted for the African Innovation Foundation's Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) awards 2017.[3][4] Omolabake Adenle holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from University of Cambridge, UK.[1]
Early life
[edit]Adenle was born and brought up in Lagos State, Nigeria.[5]
Education
[edit]Adenle studies Ph.D in Bayesian Signal Processing from Cambridge University where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and Tau Beta Pi Honors Fellow.[1]
Career
[edit]After completing her studies, Adenle worked for Morgan Stanley as their Vice President for quantitative and derivative strategies while personally working on building African language-learning application softwares,[1] this exposed her in the field of natural language processing for African and other low resourced languages. She then later started the AJA.LA Studios, a company that develops natural language & speech processing applications for under-resourced languages.[6][7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d McCormick, Meghan (March 11, 2019). "Hey Siri! Could Virtual Assistants Be The Missing Link In Internet Accessibility?". forbes.com. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ "2021 Women in Voice Awards". womeninvoice.org. Women in Voice (WiV). 22 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ "Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) 2017 Awards "Investing in Prosperity" – July 17-18, Accra, Ghana". africaninnovation.org. Africa Innovation Foundation. 22 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ "Two Nigerians nominated for AIF innovation awards". guardian.ng. The Guardian Nigeria. 22 June 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ Umukoro, Arukaino (2 July 2017). "Two Nigerians nominated for Innovation Prize for Africa". punchng.com. The Punch Nigeria. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ Kolawole, Oluwanifemi (26 July 2021). "Nigerian-American, Abake Adenle, wins award for building speech recognition API for African languages". techpoint.africa. Techpoint-Africa. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ Chime, Vivian (27 July 2021). "Nigerian-American, Abake Adenle, wins award for building speech recognition API for African languages". thecable.ng. The Cable Nigeria. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ De Villiers, Jill (22 June 2021). "Ten fantastic African innovators shortlisted for IPA 2017 grand prize". cnbcafrica.com. CNBC Africa. Retrieved 31 July 2021.