Jean de Dieu Nyandwi

I am Jean de Dieu Nyandwi. I work on machine learning and multimoda AI. I recently completed MS Engineering AI at Carnegie Mellon University. I have had a fortune to work with Prof. Graham Neubig and other amazing people at CMU, mostly working on evaluation and compositionality in visual language models. I also have interests in AI education and accessibility, and I spend a fair amount of time designing, exploring, and sharing learning resources.


I did undergrad in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at University of Rwanda, majoring in machine learning on the side. Prior to that, I achieved the top score, country wide, in Advanced Level National Examinations in Electronics and Telecommunication, senior highschool.

Beside technical works, I regularly workout, mostly resilience training and calisthenics, some basketball, and walks sometime.

Publications

Latest News

  • Oct 2024 - We are releasing Pangea-7B, a fully open multilingual multimodal LLM that outperform existing open models in multilingual & culturally diverse contexts 🔥🔥. Release include models, code, training data, benchmark!!
  • Oct 2024 - NaturalBench paper is now publicly available on ArXiv!!
  • Sep 2024 - NaturalBench was accepted to NeurIPS 2024 - Datasets and Benchmarks Track 🥳🔥
  • May 2024 - Graduated from CMU MS Engineering AI!!
  • July 2023 - Published Transformer Blueprint article!
  • Oct 2022 - Listed in top 50 AI influencers by Onalytica
  • Sept 2022 - Nominated in DeepLearning.AI Event Ambassadors Spotlight 2022
  • Aug 2022 - Started MS AI at Carnegie Mellon University Africa
  • May 2022 - Complete Machine Learning Package is now available on web

Invited Talks

  • June 2024 - Presented Multimodal LLMs at IndabaX Rwanda. Find slides here!