| Omolabake Adenle | |
| Birth Date: | 1982 |
| Birth Place: | Lagos State |
| Nationality: | Nigeria |
| Education: | University of Cambridge |
Omolabake Adenle (born 1982) is a Nigerian engineer, entrepreneur and financial strategist. She is the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AJA.LA Studios, a company that provides digital solutions to natural African languages.[1] Adenle invented the application software "SpeakYoruba App" which won her an award on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in Voice by the Women In Voice (WiN) 2021[2] and was shortlisted for the African Innovation Foundation's Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) awards 2017.[3] [4] Omolabake Adenle holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from University of Cambridge, UK.[1]
Adenle was born and brought up in Lagos State, Nigeria.[5]
Adenle studies Ph.D in Bayesian Signal Processing from Cambridge University where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and Tau Beta Pi Honors Fellow.[1]
After completing her studies, Adenle worked for Morgan Stanley as their Vice President for quantitative and derivative strategies while personally working on building African language-learning application softwares,[1] this exposed her in the field of natural language processing for African and other low resourced languages. She then later started the AJA.LA Studios, a company that develops natural language & speech processing applications for under-resourced languages.[6] [7] [8]