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Collins Nnalue Udanor

Collins Nnalue Udanor

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Solution Network Member

Canadian AI Safety Institute Research Program

Mitigating Dialect Bias

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Collins Nnalue Udanor has extensive experience in artificial intelligence (machine learning), the Internet of Things (IoT), and high-performance computing. He designed and implemented key Distributed Computing Infrastructures, including the LIONGRID-UNN-NG and Lion Cloud for academic research.

As director of the High Performance and Intelligence Computing (HiPIC) Lab, he leads applied AI research in several key areas. His work includes natural language processing for social media analysis; Health Informatics for predicting diseases like stroke and sickle cell anemia; and Agro-Informatics, using IoT sensor data to predict catfish yields.

A recipient of several international grants like the Lacuna Fund for Agriculture, Dr. Udanor has successfully managed numerous projects. Notably, he led the team that developed the Pidgin language version of the Google Search Engine in 2011.

Awards

  • Nvidia Applied Research Accelerator Program, Nvidia (2022)
  • Faculty Artificial Intelligence Prize Winner, Oracle Academy (Nigeria) (2019)
  • Google Android Program for EMEA 2011 Award winner, Google (2011)

Relevant Publications

  • Collins N. Udanor, and Chinatu Anyanwu (2019). Combating the challenges of Social Media Hate Speech in a Polarized Society: A Twitter Ego Lexalytics Approach (Emerald Data Technologies and Applications Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 501-527
  • Udanor C.N, Aneke S.O and Ogbuokiri B.O. (2016). Determining Social Media Influences on the Politics of Developing Countries using Social Network Analytics. EmeraldInsight Program: electronic library and information systems, Volume 50 (4): pp. 481 – 507.
  • C.N. Udanor, A.H. Eneh, D. Goji (2023). A 1-Gram Sentiment Analysis Algorithm for Detecting Cyberbullying in Online Social, Int. J. Advanced Networking and Applications Volume: 14 Issue: 06 (Pages: 5734 – 5733)
  • George E. Okereke, Collin N. Udanor, Stephenson C. Echezona, Caroline N. Asogwa, Izuchukwu Uzoh (2024). Sentiment Analysis - An optimized Weighted Horizontal Ensemble approach. International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering, Volume 13, No. 2
  • C. Anyanwu, and C. N. Udanor (2020), An N-Gram Determination of Twitter User Sentiments, International Journal of Latest Technology in Engineering, Management & Applied Science (IJLTEMAS) Volume IX, Issue II, February 2020 | ISSN 2278-2540

Institution

University of Nigeria

Department

Computer Science

Education

  • PhD (Electronic Engineering), University of Nigeria
  • MSc (Computer Science), University of Nigeria
  • BEng (Computer Science & Engineering), Enugu State University of Science & Technology

Country

Nigeria

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