Ibra Niang

RESEARCHER · BUILDER

Ibra Niang

Multimodal NLP researcher at the University of Memphis (BS/MS '26), building vision-language models and the systems that train them.

Memphis, TN · inniang@memphis.edu · Advised by Dr. Xiaolei Huang

Selected Work

Things I've built or am building. Code and write-ups linked.

Jaxchat

End-to-end LLM training pipeline: pretraining, SFT, RL, and a chat web UI for inference, all in JAX.

Agriculture VLM Benchmark

Research-grade benchmark for vision-language models in agriculture: dataset, evaluation harness, and reference baselines.

in progress · paper forthcoming

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Writing

Notes on VLMs, training, kernels, and building research tooling.

Jan 30, 2026
From ~0.15 to ~0.60 reward: fast RL gains on low-resource translation

How curriculum, reward shaping, and decoding stability moved reward quickly in a low-resource translation setup.

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Get in touch

Open to research collaborations, applied roles, and conversations.

Email, LinkedIn, or GitHub.