Bonaventure Dossou is a Computer Science Ph.D. student at McGill University & Mila, specializing in Natural Language Processing (NLP) applied to low-resource languages, particularly those of African origin, and Healthcare. Holding a Bachelor of Science with honors in Mathematics from Kazan Federal University, Russia, and a Master of Science with honors in Computer Science and Data Engineering from Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, Bonaventure's interests lie in Natural Language Processing, including Machine Translation, Large Language Modeling, Speech Recognition, and Information Retrieval for low-resourced languages. Additionally, he is actively involved in Machine Learning for Healthcare, focusing on areas such as Drug Discovery, small molecule generation, and gene therapy.

Bonaventure has developed several Afro-centric NLP systems, including the FFRTranslate, AfroLM, and Okwugbe ASR Python libraries. Prior to pursuing his Ph.D., he served as a research intern at the Mila Quebec AI Institute, contributing to Drug Discovery projects utilizing Deep Learning and Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) under the guidance of Yoshua Bengio and Dianbo Lui. His professional experience also includes roles as an NLP Researcher at Google Research, an NLP Data Scientist at Roche Canada, and a Research Scientist at ModelisLabs, where he tackled challenges in the Health and Pharma domains.