Omolabake Adenle | |
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Born | United States |
Nationality | Nigerian-American |
Education | Ph.D. in Bayesian Signal Processing, University of Cambridge |
Occupation(s) | Engineer Entrepreneur Financial strategist |
Known for | Founder of AJA.LA Studios SpeakYoruba App |
Awards | DEI in Voice Award, Women In Voice (2021) Shortlisted, Innovation Prize for Africa (2017) |
Omolabake Adenle is a Nigerian-American engineer, entrepreneur and financial strategist. She is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of AJA.LA Studios, a company that provides digital solutions[ clarification needed ] 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]
Adenle was born and brought up in the United States. [5]
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]
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 software, [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]