Jessica O. Ojo
Research Engineer · LLM Evaluation · Montreal, QC
I build scalable evaluation infrastructure and benchmarking systems to understand how language models fail, where they generalize, and what it takes to make them more reliable. Currently finishing my MSc at McGill University, where my thesis focuses on evaluation methodology and the limits of standard benchmarks for LLMs. Advised by David Adelani. Previously Research Engineer at Lelapa AI, and Data Scientist at Okra Technologies.
Seeking roles building evaluation systems that improve how language models are understood, measured, and trusted.
News
Thesis: Evaluation Mirage: A Layered Evaluation of Large Language Models and Language Identification for African NLP.
Experience
MSc, Computer Science
2024 – May 2026- Thesis: Evaluation Mirage: A Layered Evaluation of Large Language Models and Language Identification for African NLP.
Graduate Researcher
2024 – Aug 2026- 6+ publications at top venues including ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, ICLR, and COLM — with 2 best paper awards.
- Research focused on LLM evaluation methodology, benchmarking design, and failure-mode analysis at scale.
- Active reviewer for ACL; workshop organizer for DLI 2025 and EACL 2026.
Research Engineer
Sept 2023 – Nov 2025Built and drove adoption of end-to-end evaluation infrastructure — covering benchmark development, job orchestration, failure-mode diagnostics, and continuous regression monitoring across 10+ speech and language models. Worked cross-functionally as an internal evals-as-a-service layer supporting research, engineering, and product teams; reducing iteration cycles by 40%.
Data Scientist
Nov 2020 – July 2023Built and shipped production ML systems for fraud detection, NLP classification, and financial behaviour modelling. Designed end-to-end ML pipelines with automated retraining, experiment tracking, and API deployment.