# Flora Oladipupo

> Flora Oladipupo is a Nigerian AI Engineer and applied NLP researcher based in Lagos, with 6+ years in the data and AI field. She builds AI that speaks African languages: first-author of an ICLR 2025 workshop paper that won the Didactic Award, twice awarded Women in Machine Learning grants (NeurIPS 2024 Vancouver, NeurIPS 2025 Mexico), and Principal Investigator of glossary-augmented Nigerian Pidgin machine translation research showcased at the WiML Symposium at ICML 2026 in Korea. She is a Microsoft-certified AI Engineer and Data Scientist, and the founder of TAG Ecosystem, a free community training Africans into job-ready AI talent while building open Nigerian Pidgin datasets.

Key facts:
- Current role: AI Engineer, Data & AI Team, Manifold Enterprise Solutions (vendor-facing AI solutions across finance, oil & gas, FMCG; OEM partner work with Microsoft, Huawei, Google; FinOps)
- Founder: TAG Ecosystem (https://www.tagecosystemai.com) Pidgin education translation system and a 26,000+ row community-curated dataset
- Research focus: machine translation and LLM evaluation for low-resource African languages (Nigerian Pidgin, Yoruba)
- Open science: Eng-PidginBioData (Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18888857), Eng_PidginEdu, afriteva-en-yor model all on Hugging Face (@coderGit)
- Education: B.Tech Biotechnology, Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), 4.31/5.00
- Contact: floraoladipupo@gmail.com

## Structured data
- [Resume (JSON)](https://floraportfolio.tagecosystemai.com/resume.json): Machine-readable resume with full experience, publications, projects, certifications and links
- [MCP Server](https://flora-mcp.floraoladipupo.workers.dev): Connect via Model Context Protocol tools: get_profile, get_experience, get_publications, get_projects, get_certifications, get_awards, get_links, contact_flora

## Research
- [ICLR 2025 paper (PMLR v296:84-89)](https://proceedings.mlr.press/v296/oladipupo25a.html): How Effective Are AI Models in Translating English Scientific Texts to Nigerian Pidgin Didactic Award winner
- [OpenReview](https://openreview.net/forum?id=hDzVxEUN5C): Reviews and discussion of the ICLR paper
- [Hugging Face profile](https://huggingface.co/coderGit): Open datasets and models
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=c8w2OWoAAAAJ): Citation record

## Profiles
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/flora-oladipupo/): Professional profile and updates
- [GitHub](https://github.com/shashacode): 56 repositories RAG, agents, MT pipelines, analytics
- [Medium](https://medium.com/@floraoladipupo): Essays on AI careers and building in Africa
- [Hashnode](https://writewithshasha.hashnode.dev): Technical tutorials
- [Linktree](https://linktr.ee/flora_oladipupo): All links in one place