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Dr Ignatius Ezeani

@igezeani.bsky.social

Research Fellow at SCC Lancaster. Visiting Researcher, Microsoft. NLP and Spatial Narratives. Technical Advisory Panel member, Lacuna Fund Member Masakhane community | Organiser, UCREL CRS, CoSeC Fellow

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Dr Ignatius Ezeani @igezeani.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

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Dr Ignatius Ezeani @igezeani.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

⏳ 2 weeks to go! @ucrelnlp.bsky.social UCREL Summer School 2026 is almost here: 20–22 July at Lancaster. NLP, LLMs, RAG, Responsible & Explainable AI, keynotes, hands-on tutorials and a hackathon. Last-minute attendees are welcome. Contact @igezeani.bsky.social or @perayson.bsky.social ASAP.

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Paul Rayson @perayson.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Sneaky peak at our two demo paper posters for #RANLP2025 next week ... @dawnknightcl.bsky.social @igezeani.bsky.social @elhaj.bsky.social @johnvidler.co.uk

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Dr Ignatius Ezeani @igezeani.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

We invite work on sustainable software, carbon-aware systems, green AI, embodied carbon, frugal computing, energy efficiency and climate-aware computing practice.

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Dr Ignatius Ezeani @igezeani.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Excited to co-organise LOCO 2026: the 2nd International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing. 📅 10-11 September 2026 📍 Lancaster University, UK 📝 Submissions due 29 May 2026 🔗 lancaster-university.github.io/loco2026/ Please share widely.

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About LOCO - 2nd International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing

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Dr Ignatius Ezeani @igezeani.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

📩 Enquiries: UCREL Summer School 2026 Organising Team Email: ucrel@lancaster.ac.uk

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Dr Ignatius Ezeani @igezeani.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

✅ EoI deadline: EoB Friday, 13 Feb 2026 forms.office.com/e/3XA93piqdJ Selected applicants will be invited to register. Fee includes lunch/coffee + organisation; attendees book local accommodation. More programme + other info will appear on the USS2026 website: ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/uss2026/

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Dr Ignatius Ezeani @igezeani.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Programme: - Day 1 – Foundations of NLP & Corpus Analysis (UCREL tools, pipelines, low-resource MT) - Day 2 – LLMs & Retrieval-Augmented Systems (keynote, RAG lab, workflows) - Day 3 – Responsible & Explainable AI (keynote, case studies, XAI lab, hackathon demos & awards)

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Dr Ignatius Ezeani @igezeani.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

- Use orchestration frameworks (LangGraph/LangChain-style workflows) - Responsible & Explainable AI in practice (prompt tracing, feature attributions, explanations, bias/fairness/robustness checks) - Interdisciplinary mini-hackathon (prototype an LLM tool + present to a panel; demos & awards)

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Dr Ignatius Ezeani @igezeani.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Learning Outcomes: - Build end-to-end NLP pipelines with spaCy + HuggingFace/Transformers (classification, sequence labelling, MT) - Understand LLMs (architectures, training, scaling, inference trade-offs) - Design & implement RAG (indexing, retrieval, prompting, evaluation)

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Dr Ignatius Ezeani @igezeani.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Who? PhD students, RAs, postdocs, software developers, data scientists, and researchers in linguistics & the humanities. 🐍 Python experience desirable, not essential (guided notebooks + mentoring provided).

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Dr Ignatius Ezeani @igezeani.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

📣 UCREL Summer School 2026 (Lancaster University, UK) 🗓️ 20–22 July 2026 (3 days, intensive + hands-on) 🧠 Theme: NLP, LLMs & Responsible + Explainable AI in Practice 👥 Limited places allocated via a short selection process based on an Expression of Interest (EoI): forms.office.com/e/3XA93piqdJ

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Dr Ignatius Ezeani @igezeani.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Hi all, see if you are interested and eligible to apply for this fund from Software Sustainability Institute - go.shr.lc/4iRuRem

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