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Josué Godeme

Computer Science. Dartmouth College
King Scholar & Stamps Scholar
Incoming Schwarzman Scholar, Tsinghua University (2027)
[Email][CV][Google Scholar]

I research and build at the intersection of multilingual AI, voice technologies, and education. My work spans evaluating LLM performance across languages, deploying models on edge devices for low-connectivity classrooms, and designing voice-first learning systems. I also ship products — most recently Orphi, an AI language companion live on the App Store.

Growing up between Adja, French, and English — and now learning Mandarin — shaped how I think about language technology. Most AI systems are built for a handful of languages and fail everyone else. I am interested in changing that: not just through linguistics research, but by building the infrastructure and evaluation frameworks that make multilingual AI actually work at scale.

Current Research Areas

  • Multilingual NLP and LLM evaluation across languages.
  • Edge-deployed AI for low-connectivity educational contexts.
  • Voice AI and speech technologies.
  • AI infrastructure for underrepresented languages.

Publications

Artificial Allies: Validation of Synthetic Text for Peer Support Tools through Data Augmentation in NLP Model Development.
Godeme, J., Hill, J., Gaughan, S. P., Hirschbuhl, W. J., Emerson, A. J., Darabos, C., Bobak, C. A., & Fortuna, K. L. (2025).
Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, Hawaii, USA.

Works in Progress

Adja-French Neural Machine Translation: A Few-Shot Transfer Learning Approach.
Godeme, J. et al.
Under Review.
Evaluating LLM Performance on Low-Resource West African Languages.
Godeme, J.
In Preparation.

Talks & Presentations

  • Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing — Hawaii, USA (Jan 2025)
  • Stamps Scholars National Convention — Atlanta, GA (Aug 2024)