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Paulin MELATAGIA YONTA

Paulin Melatagia Yonta, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Yaounde I, where he earned his doctoral degree. His teaching expertise cover machine learning, data mining, business intelligence and operational research.  He is also an associate lecturer in some universities in Africa. His research is focused on discovering and analyzing new machine learning algorithms, as well as natural language and speech processing, particularity for African languages.

He is the head of the Idasco (Data Science and Complex Systems) research team at the University of Yaounde I, scientific secretary of the CRI (Conference on Research in Computer Science), member of the executive committee of ASDS (The African Society in Digital Sciences), member of the executive committee of CAIS (Cameroon Artificial Intelligence Society), member of the laboratory council of UMMISCO/IRD (Unité de Modélisation Mathématique en Informatique des Systèmes Complexes) and director of the Central and East Africa center of this research unit.  He also works for private and public companies as a consultant on artificial intelligence and digital transformation.