Omolabake Adenle

Omolabake Adenle (born 1982) is a Nigerian engineer, entrepreneur and financial strategist. She is the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AJA.LA Studios, a company that provides digital solutions to natural African languages.[1] Adenle invented the application software "SpeakYoruba App" which won her an award on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in Voice by the Women In Voice (WiN) 2021[2] and was shortlisted for the African Innovation Foundation's Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) awards 2017.[3][4] Omolabake Adenle holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from University of Cambridge, UK.[1]

Early life

Adenle was born and brought up in Lagos State, Nigeria.[5]

Education

Adenle studies Ph.D in Bayesian Signal Processing from Cambridge University where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and Tau Beta Pi Honors Fellow.[1]

Career

After completing her studies, Adenle worked for Morgan Stanley as their Vice President for quantitative and derivative strategies while personally working on building African language-learning application softwares,[1] this exposed her in the field of natural language processing for African and other low resourced languages. She then later started the AJA.LA Studios, a company that develops natural language & speech processing applications for under-resourced languages.[6][7][8]

References
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  2. "2021 Women in Voice Awards". womeninvoice.org. Women in Voice (WiV). 22 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  3. "Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) 2017 Awards "Investing in Prosperity" – July 17-18, Accra, Ghana". africaninnovation.org. Africa Innovation Foundation. 22 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  4. "Two Nigerians nominated for AIF innovation awards". guardian.ng. The Guardian Nigeria. 22 June 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  5. Umukoro, Arukaino (2 July 2017). "Two Nigerians nominated for Innovation Prize for Africa". punchng.com. The Punch Nigeria. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  6. Kolawole, Oluwanifemi (26 July 2021). "Nigerian-American, Abake Adenle, wins award for building speech recognition API for African languages". techpoint.africa. Techpoint-Africa. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  7. Chime, Vivian (27 July 2021). "Nigerian-American, Abake Adenle, wins award for building speech recognition API for African languages". thecable.ng. The Cable Nigeria. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  8. De Villiers, Jill (22 June 2021). "Ten fantastic African innovators shortlisted for IPA 2017 grand prize". cnbcafrica.com. CNBC Africa. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
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