My Thesis in 180 Seconds

Lydia Nishimwe
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Abstract

The ‘Ma Thèse en 180 Secondes’ (My Thesis in 180 Seconds) competition at Sorbonne Université is an annual event where PhD students present their research topic in simple terms to a non-specialist audience in just 3 minutes. This science communication exercise aims to make research accessible and engaging for everyone. I was among the 12 finalists in the 2025 edition.

Date
Mar 10, 2025 6:00 PM — 8:00 PM
Event
Finale of the ‘My Thesis in 180 Seconds’ Contest
Location
Sorbonne Université
Paris, France
Machine Translation Sentence Embeddings Robustness User-Generated Content (UGC) Data Augmentation
Lydia Nishimwe
Lydia Nishimwe
PhD Candidate

I am a PhD candidate currently working on the neural machine translation of user-generated content (e.g. social media posts).

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