The abantu are the people, in our case those people who drive forward the mission of strengthening African machine learning. These are our organisers and advisory board members.
Organising Committee
Shakir Mohamed
Research Scientist, DeepMind, London
Ulrich Paquet
Research Scientist, DeepMind, London
Vukosi Marivate
Chair of Data Science, University of Pretoria; CSIR; and Deep Learning Indaba
Benjamin Rosman
Researcher, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Nyalleng Moorosi
Researcher at Google AI, Ghana
Stephan Gouws
Research Scientist, Google, Brain Team, London
Willie Brink
Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
Richard Klein
Associate Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
Avishkar Bhoopchand
Research Engineer, DeepMind
Kathleen Siminyu
Data Scientist Africa's Talking; Co-organiser, Nairobi Machine Learning and Data Science
Herman Kamper
Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
Daniela Massiceti
PhD Candidate, University of Oxford
Karim Beguir
Co-founder and CEO of InstaDeep, Google Developer Machine Learning Expert
Advisory Board
Bitange Ndemo
Former Kenyan Permanent Secretary; Assoc. Professor Univ. of Nairobi; Board Director Safaricom
Bonolo Mathibela
Research Scientist, IBM Research South Africa
Bubacarr Bah
Research Chair, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Danielle Belgrave
Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Research Fellow Imperial College London
George Konidaris
Assistant Professor, Brown University
Joy Buolamwini
Algorithmic Justice League and MIT Media Lab
Nando De Freitas
Principal Scientist and Team Lead, DeepMind; and Deep Learning Indaba advisory board member
Rachel Thomas
Co-founder fast.ai; and University of San Francisco
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