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Hawau Olamide Toyin

hawau.toyin@mbzuai.ac.ae

Note

I’ve lived in Ilorin & Lagos (Nigeria), Pisa (Italy), and now Abu Dhabi (UAE)! In general, I have benefited greatly from the advice of friends and acquaintances alike. If you have questions on graduate school that you think I might be able to help answer, write me an email.


Education & Research Visits

Generously supported by MBZUAI, ITSERR-TNA and Hanan AldramakišŸ¤.

Visiting Researcher at ISTI-CNR, Pisa (2025).

  • PhD Natural Language Processing from MBZUAI (Exp. 2028)
  • M.Sc. Program in Machine Learning from MBZUAI 2024
  • B.Eng. Computer Engineering UniIlorin 2021

Teaching Experience

MBZUAI


Awards & Hackathons Won

  • Research Fellowship Grant from ITSERR - Italian Strenghtening of the Esfri Ri Resilience - Trans-National Program, 2024
  • Inspirational Leader Award at MBZUAI commencement, 2024
  • Graduate Student Council Award at MBZUAI commencement, 2024
  • Best Paper Award at ArabicNLP 2023
  • GITEX x Ali Baba Cloud Oct 2023: bountyful
  • Selected Scholar for Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-Doctoral Research School (CMMRS) 2021

About

Hi, I'm Hawau. I'm a PhD student in Natural Language Processing at MBZUAI, specializing in speech modeling.