Boniface Mwau

Boniface Mwau is a Research Associate at the Maseno Centre for Applied Artificial Intelligence (MCAAI) and an MSc Computer Science student at Maseno University. His research focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP), speech technologies, and data-centric AI for low-resource African languages.

His current research investigates data-efficient neural Text-to-Speech (TTS) for low-resource Kenyan languages, with a focus on Kikuyu. He is interested in multilingual transfer learning, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), machine translation, language resource creation, and the development of open AI technologies for African languages.

At MCAAI, he contributes to research on speech and language technologies, multilingual NLP, cultural knowledge representation, and AI datasets for African languages. His postgraduate research is supervised by Dr. Lilian Wanzare and Dr. Vivian Oloo.