Shester Gueuwou

I am a Visiting Student Researcher at Toyota Technological Insitite at Chicago(TTIC), where I am extremely fortunate to be advised by Professor Karen Livescu and Professor Greg Shakhnarovich.

I spent the last summer doing research at The Johns Hopkins University as part of JSALT 2024.

Before TTIC, I was advised by Dr. Mathias Müller at Masakhane. I completed my Bachelors in Computer Science with First Class Honors at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, where I was supported by the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program, and was advised by Dr. Kate Takyi and Dr. (Mrs.) Rose-Mary Owusuaa Mensah Gyening.

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Research

In a nutshell, I am interested in what language truly means beyond the speech and text modalities. To have a grasp of this, I am keen on how to make computers understand the whole visual languages spectrum which can be reflected by the Kendon's Continuum. As a case example, I have been working on Automatic Signed Languages Processing, with interest on anything rotating around that as Multi(and Cross)modality, (Low Resource) Machine Translation and Efficient methods for Long/Dense Videos Understanding.

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