Samuel Chege Maina

Senior Research Scientist

Publications

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- PazaBench: Large-Scale ASR Benchmark for Low-Resource Languages in Africa
  
  Mercy Muchai, Nick Mumero Mwangi, Kevin Chege, Samuel Chege Maina
  
  Deep Learning Indaba 2026 | August 2026
  
  Publication Project
- Reasoning Beyond Labels: Measuring LLM Sentiment in Low-Resource, Culturally Nuanced Contexts
  
  Millicent Ochieng, Anja Thieme, Ignatius Ezeani, Risa Ueno, Samuel Chege Maina, Keshet Ronen, Javier González, Jacki O'Neill
  
  The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026) | March 2026
  
  Publication
- Towards Flood Extent Forecasting: Evaluating a Weather Foundation Model and U-Net for Flood Forecasting
  
  Samuel Chege Maina, Eric Wanjau
  
  Climate Change AI | April 2025
  
  Publication Project
- Evaluation of Dependency Structure for Multivariate Weather Predictors using Copulas
  
  Samuel Chege Maina, Dorcas Mwigereri, Jonathan Weyn, Lester Mackey, Millicent Ochieng
  
  ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies | September 2023, Vol 1(2): pp. 1-23
  
  Publication
- “It’s only when somebody says a tool worked for them that I believe it will work for me”: Socio-tecture as a lens for digital transformation
  
  Kagonya Awori, Melisa Achoko Allela, Stephanie Nyairo, Samuel Chege Maina, Jacki O'Neill
  
  Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work | November 2022
  
  Publication Project Project
- Modelling Stochastic Volatility in the Kenyan Securities Market Using Hidden Markov Models
  
  Matilda Bosire, Samuel Chege Maina
  
  Journal of Financial Risk Management | September 2021, Vol 10(3)
  
  Publication

- PazaBench: Large-Scale ASR Benchmark for Low-Resource Languages in Africa
  
  Mercy Muchai, Nick Mumero Mwangi, Kevin Chege, Samuel Chege Maina
  
  Deep Learning Indaba 2026 | August 2026
  
  Publication Project
- Reasoning Beyond Labels: Measuring LLM Sentiment in Low-Resource, Culturally Nuanced Contexts
  
  Millicent Ochieng, Anja Thieme, Ignatius Ezeani, Risa Ueno, Samuel Chege Maina, Keshet Ronen, Javier González, Jacki O'Neill
  
  The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026) | March 2026
  
  Publication
- Towards Flood Extent Forecasting: Evaluating a Weather Foundation Model and U-Net for Flood Forecasting
  
  Samuel Chege Maina, Eric Wanjau
  
  Climate Change AI | April 2025
  
  Publication Project
- Towards Flood Extent Forecasting: Evaluating a Weather Foundation Model and U-Net for Flood Forecasting
  
  Samuel Chege Maina, Eric Wanjau
  
  Climate Change AI | April 2025
  
  Publication Project
- “It’s only when somebody says a tool worked for them that I believe it will work for me”: Socio-tecture as a lens for digital transformation
  
  Kagonya Awori, Melisa Achoko Allela, Stephanie Nyairo, Samuel Chege Maina, Jacki O'Neill
  
  Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work | November 2022
  
  Publication Project Project
- Evaluation of Dependency Structure for Multivariate Weather Predictors using Copulas
  
  Samuel Chege Maina, Dorcas Mwigereri, Jonathan Weyn, Lester Mackey, Millicent Ochieng
  
  ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies | September 2023, Vol 1(2): pp. 1-23
  
  Publication
- Evaluation of Dependency Structure for Multivariate Weather Predictors using Copulas
  
  Samuel Chege Maina, Dorcas Mwigereri, Jonathan Weyn, Lester Mackey, Millicent Ochieng
  
  ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies | September 2023, Vol 1(2): pp. 1-23
  
  Publication
- Modelling Stochastic Volatility in the Kenyan Securities Market Using Hidden Markov Models
  
  Matilda Bosire, Samuel Chege Maina
  
  Journal of Financial Risk Management | September 2021, Vol 10(3)
  
  Publication
- “It’s only when somebody says a tool worked for them that I believe it will work for me”: Socio-tecture as a lens for digital transformation
  
  Kagonya Awori, Melisa Achoko Allela, Stephanie Nyairo, Samuel Chege Maina, Jacki O'Neill
  
  Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work | November 2022
  
  Publication Project Project

- PazaBench: Large-Scale ASR Benchmark for Low-Resource Languages in Africa
  
  Mercy Muchai, Nick Mumero Mwangi, Kevin Chege, Samuel Chege Maina
  
  Deep Learning Indaba 2026 | August 2026
  
  Publication Project
- Reasoning Beyond Labels: Measuring LLM Sentiment in Low-Resource, Culturally Nuanced Contexts
  
  Millicent Ochieng, Anja Thieme, Ignatius Ezeani, Risa Ueno, Samuel Chege Maina, Keshet Ronen, Javier González, Jacki O'Neill
  
  The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026) | March 2026
  
  Publication
- Towards Flood Extent Forecasting: Evaluating a Weather Foundation Model and U-Net for Flood Forecasting
  
  Samuel Chege Maina, Eric Wanjau
  
  Climate Change AI | April 2025
  
  Publication Project
- “It’s only when somebody says a tool worked for them that I believe it will work for me”: Socio-tecture as a lens for digital transformation
  
  Kagonya Awori, Melisa Achoko Allela, Stephanie Nyairo, Samuel Chege Maina, Jacki O'Neill
  
  Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work | November 2022
  
  Publication Project Project
- Evaluation of Dependency Structure for Multivariate Weather Predictors using Copulas
  
  Samuel Chege Maina, Dorcas Mwigereri, Jonathan Weyn, Lester Mackey, Millicent Ochieng
  
  ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies | September 2023, Vol 1(2): pp. 1-23
  
  Publication
- Modelling Stochastic Volatility in the Kenyan Securities Market Using Hidden Markov Models
  
  Matilda Bosire, Samuel Chege Maina
  
  Journal of Financial Risk Management | September 2021, Vol 10(3)
  
  Publication

Samuel Chege Maina

Publications

PazaBench: Large-Scale ASR Benchmark for Low-Resource Languages in Africa

Reasoning Beyond Labels: Measuring LLM Sentiment in Low-Resource, Culturally Nuanced Contexts

Towards Flood Extent Forecasting: Evaluating a Weather Foundation Model and U-Net for Flood Forecasting

Evaluation of Dependency Structure for Multivariate Weather Predictors using Copulas

“It’s only when somebody says a tool worked for them that I believe it will work for me”: Socio-tecture as a lens for digital transformation

Modelling Stochastic Volatility in the Kenyan Securities Market Using Hidden Markov Models

PazaBench: Large-Scale ASR Benchmark for Low-Resource Languages in Africa

Reasoning Beyond Labels: Measuring LLM Sentiment in Low-Resource, Culturally Nuanced Contexts

Towards Flood Extent Forecasting: Evaluating a Weather Foundation Model and U-Net for Flood Forecasting

Towards Flood Extent Forecasting: Evaluating a Weather Foundation Model and U-Net for Flood Forecasting

“It’s only when somebody says a tool worked for them that I believe it will work for me”: Socio-tecture as a lens for digital transformation

Evaluation of Dependency Structure for Multivariate Weather Predictors using Copulas

Evaluation of Dependency Structure for Multivariate Weather Predictors using Copulas

Modelling Stochastic Volatility in the Kenyan Securities Market Using Hidden Markov Models

“It’s only when somebody says a tool worked for them that I believe it will work for me”: Socio-tecture as a lens for digital transformation

PazaBench: Large-Scale ASR Benchmark for Low-Resource Languages in Africa

Reasoning Beyond Labels: Measuring LLM Sentiment in Low-Resource, Culturally Nuanced Contexts

Towards Flood Extent Forecasting: Evaluating a Weather Foundation Model and U-Net for Flood Forecasting

“It’s only when somebody says a tool worked for them that I believe it will work for me”: Socio-tecture as a lens for digital transformation

Evaluation of Dependency Structure for Multivariate Weather Predictors using Copulas

Modelling Stochastic Volatility in the Kenyan Securities Market Using Hidden Markov Models

Contact Samuel Chege Maina

Microsoft Research Africa, Nairobi