Paulin Melatagia Yonta, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Yaounde I. His teaching expertise covers artificial intelligence domains such as machine learning, natural language processing (NLP) and data mining. His research is focused on discovering and analyzing new machine learning algorithms particularity for NLP on African languages. He is the head of the IDASCO (Artificial Intelligence and Data Sciences) research team at the University of Yaounde I, scientific secretary of the CRI (Conference on Research in Computer Science), director of the Central and East Africa center of the research unit UMMISCO/IRD and serves as a member of the executive committees of several scientific societies, including the African Society in Digital Sciences (ASDS) and the Cameroon Artificial Intelligence Society (CAIS). He is also a consultant for private and public companies on AI and digital transformation.