Seyi Olojo

Seyi Olojo is a doctoral student in the School of Information at The University of California, Berkeley and an associated researcher at the Weizenbaum-Institut in Berlin, Germany. Her research explores how colonial histories of racial classification are re-articulated within contemporary machine learning practices, specifically data collection and early-stage machine learning. Her current research investigates the role of Western values in the mistranslation of indigenous Nigerian languages for commercial machine translation technologies.