Under the Jasmine Tree

by | Jul 9, 2025 | Sauti Yetu

تحت الياسمينة This month’s newsletter was written by two community members. Amal Nammouchi, originally from Tunisia 🇹🇳, is a co-founder of AfriClimate AI, a Pan-African non-profit using AI to tackle climate challenges across Africa. She is a PhD candidate affiliated...

Letter to the Community: Prof. AZA Allsop

by | Jun 2, 2025 | Sauti Yetu

This month’s letter is presented by Professor AZA Allsop: artist, neuroscientist, and psychiatrist who conducts research at the intersection of social cognition, music mindfulness, and psychedelics. AZA’s intersectional research is motivated by the desire to decode...

Throwing bones

by | Apr 30, 2025 | Sauti Yetu

With a good enough model, could we throw the bones and predict the impact of the Deep Learning Indaba on ourselves, and on the continent? Rarely, with the benefit of hindsight, there is a moment that stands out as wildly impactful. For me, attending the Deep Learning...

Lessons From My Indaba Journey

by | Mar 20, 2025 | Sauti Yetu

Dear Indaba Community, As I reflect on my journey, from a fresh engineering graduate with a new interest in machine learning, to my first exposure to research during my MPhil in Cambridge, and now as a Google DeepMind researcher with a PhD in machine learning,...