Jabez is a DPhil student in Social Data Science at the OII. His research focuses on misinformation and developing automated fact-checking methods for misinformation in multiple modalities and across multilingual contexts and low-resource language settings.
Jabez holds a BSc in Computer Science from Strathmore University and an MSc in Social Data Science from the OII where his thesis focused on scaling crowdsourced election monitoring; developing classification models for multilingual election reports and cross-domain classification settings. He is also a Rhodes Scholar.
Multimodal Misinformation, Automated Fact Checking, Multilingual NLP, NLP for Low Resource Languages, Crowdsourced Election Monitoring.
20 June 2025
OII researchers are set to attend the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAccT) 2025.
