Jean de Dieu Nyandwi

I am Jean de Dieu Nyandwi. I work on visual language models(VLMs). 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.

Latest News

• 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!