<translate> Kathleen Siminyu ni Mtafiti wa AI ambaye ameangazia Uchakataji wa Lugha Asilia wa Lugha za Kiafrika. Atajiunga na shirika la Mozilla Foundation kama Mshirika wa Kujifunza kwa Mashine ili asaidie kutengeneza seti ya takwimu ya Common Voice ya Kiswahili na aunde mifano ya kunukuu usemi ili itumiwe katika nyanja za kilimo na usimamizi wa fedha. Katika utafiti wake wa NLP, Kathleen amewahi kufanya kazi ya kunukuu usemi kwa lugha za Kiluhya na kuchangia katika tafsiri ya mashine ya lugha za Kenya kama sehemu ya Masakhane. Kabla ya kujiunga na Mozilla, Kathleen alikuwa Mratibu wa Kanda wa AI4D Afrika, ambapo alifanya kazi na jumuiya za ML na AI barani Afrika akiendesha shughuli za mipango mbalimbali. <eng>
Kathleen Siminyu is an AI Researcher who has focused on Natural Language Processing for African Languages. She will be joining Mozilla Foundation as a Machine Learning Fellow to support the development of a Kiswahili Common Voice dataset and to build speech transcription models for end use cases in the agricultural and financial domains. In her NLP research, Kathleen has previously worked on speech transcription for Luhya languages and contributed to machine translation for Kenyan languages as part of Masakhane. Before joining Mozilla, Kathleen was Regional Coordinator of AI4D Africa, where she worked with ML and AI communities in Africa to run various programs. 