is a dedicated computer engineer with a strong academic and professional background and aspired Natural Language Processing (NLP) researcher, with a particular focus on sentiment analysis and machine translation. His work involves exploring innovative solutions to linguistic challenges, contributing significantly to the development of language technologies for underrepresented languages. Professionally, Bala serves as the Fellowship Program Coordinator at Arewa Data Science Academy and a coordinator and facilitator of HausaNLP research team, where he lead initiatives to train and mentor aspiring data scientists, machine learning practitioners and also carried out numerous AI research. He is an instrumental in organizing structured programs, seminars, and workshops aimed at empowering individuals with cutting-edge skills in data science and artificial intelligence. As a passionate researcher and educator, Bala combines his expertise in engineering and NLP to advance research.