Biography
I am a PhD candidate currently working on the neural machine translation of user-generated content (e.g. social media posts).
Nishimwe is a Rwandan name meaning ‘Thanks be to God’. It is pronounced /niːʃiːmŋé/.
Fun fact: There is another Lydia Nishimwe, who is a singer. Though we share quite a few similarities, we are not related. Feel free to check out her YouTube.
- Machine Translation
- Lexical Normalisation
- Sentence Embeddings
- Language Models
- Data Augmentation
- Languages
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PhD in Computer Science, 2021-present
Inria Paris, Sorbonne Université
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MEng in Mathematics and Computer Science, 2017-2021
École Centrale de Nantes
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BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science, 2014-2017
Université Grenoble Alpes
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Experience
Robust Neural Machine Translation of User-Generated Content
- 3 first-author publications at peer-reviewed NLP venues (2 conferences, 1 journal)
- 2 participations in NLP shared tasks (1 in organisation team, 1 in submission team)
- 10+ presentations (conferences, seminars, high school outreach programmes)
- Peer-reviewed 4 conference paper submissions
- Trained language and translation models in a High-Performance Computing environment
- Submitted bug fixes and new features to NLP repositories on GitHub (fairseq, NL-Augmenter)
Tech stack: Python, PyTorch (Fairseq, Transformers), SLURM
Organisation: Github/Gitlab, Trello, Zotero
Office pack: LaTex/Beamer, MS Word/PowerPoint/Excel
Inference of masked sequences
- Conducted an extensive literature review on sequence models (seq2seq) decoding strategies (autoregressive, semi-autoregressive, non-autoregressive, monotonic, and non-monotonic)
- Designed and executed experimental studies on decoding algorithms for reconstructing masked sequences of router logs from Orange
Tech stack: Python, TensorFlow, Keras
Organisation: Trello, Zotero
Office pack: LaTex/Beamer
Implemented the integration of a third-party app (Opencast, a Learning Management System) with RoCamRoll (the company’s product), including troubleshooting API interactions, and ensuring smooth data flow between systems.
Tech stack: Erlang, HTTP
Functional verification of an ARM7 microprocessor
- Implemented the simulation of the microprocessor in VHDL
- Implemented new features in C and their test files in ARM
Tech stack: VHDL, C, ARM
🏆Stage d’excellence (Excellence Internship Program) - Université Grenoble Alpes🏆
Implemented the simulation of GPS logs
Tech stack: Lutin, Lustre
🏆Stage d’excellence (Excellence Internship Program) - Université Grenoble Alpes🏆
