Rosman is a researcher who specialises in mobile intelligent autonomous systems. He is also a visiting lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he leads the Robotics, Autonomous Intelligence and Learning laboratory.

Rosman holds a PhD degree in informatics from the University of Edinburgh.Rosman’s research interests focus primarily on learning and decision-making in autonomous systems, in particular studying how learning can be accelerated through abstracting and generalising knowledge gained from solving previous problems. He also works in the area of skill and behaviour learning for robots.

A large part of his research focuses on transferring knowledge and constructing skill hierarchies in reinforcement learning, as well as extending these ideas to scenarios with rich sensory information and partial observability. He is also the chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, South African joint chapter of Control Systems and Robotics and Automation.

Expertise: Robotics; Autonomous intelligence; Machine learning; Decision theory

Dr. Neema Mduma is a computer scientist and a lecturer at the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology. Neema is passionate about education especially girls, and during her PhD studies she developed a ML model called BakiShule which aims at preventing students from dropping out of school. Also, Neema organizes free trainings and workshops in secondary schools with the focus of inspiring and exposing girls to science and technology careers particularly data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Neema’s efforts towards women in science has been recognized and she was given an award from the L’Oréal UNESCO as 20 young talents in Sub-Saharan Africa for the year 2020.

Dr. Kris is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at UW Madison. He studies statistical techniques for discovery, dimensionality reduction, and visual interaction in complex data, with a focus on climate change and the microbiome. He was previously a postdoc in humanitarian AI at Mila in Montreal, in Yoshua Bengio's group. I completed my PhD in Statistics at Stanford University, advised by Susan Holmes. My thesis was on Discovery and Visualization of Latent Structure with Applications to the Microbiome.

Dr. Kris seeks out simple strategies for making progress on real-world problems. He thinks that sharing reproducible workflows and accessible distillations is as important as making discoveries and proposing algorithms. My ideal researcher is an insightful scientist, as well as a skilled technician.

"Alexandre, Research Engineer at DeepMind working on Transfer and Continual learning problems in Reinforcement Learning and Language. Prior to DeepMind, Alexandre studied Mathematics & Computer Science at Ecole Polytechnique and Novosibirsk State University."

Dr. Ulrich is a co-founder of a crazy but wonderful movement to help strengthen machine learning in Africa, the Deep Learning Indaba. He is also currently working with DEEPMIND as a research scientist.

Dr. Ulrich is also honoured to wear the hat of extraordinary professor of applied mathematics at the University of Stellenbosch.

Lisa is a Research Engineer at DeepMind, where she develops machine learning methods for graph-structured data. Previously, she worked on quantization techniques at Google Research to accelerate and compress neural networks, and decrease their power usage. She also built computer vision algorithms at Orbital Insight to turn satellite imagery into maps, e.g. to help fight illegal deforestation. Lisa holds a BS and MS in Computer Science with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University.

Amal Rannen-Triki obtained her PhD from KU Leuven where she worked on many topics including regularization, continual learning and specialised loss functions under the supervision of Matthew B. Blaschko. She is currently a research scientist at Deepmind and is interested in various subjects around deep learning including continual learning and understanding learning dynamics.

Mutembesa is a Project Head & Lead Researcher for an Adhoc Surveillance Project focusing on the smart-phone application tool kits that has been developed by the mcrops team to facilitate and provide automated diagnosis and improved vector & symptom measurement for Cassava viral diesease and pests it also looks at crowdsourced Crop health data through an Ad-hoc Surveillance system. Daniel is also an Instructor of Oracle & Database Systems Eng. at the Department for Professional Skills Development, Makerere University and an Assistant Tutor of Dr. Ernest Mwebaze at the Department of Computer Science College of Computing & information systems at the same University.

Dr. Ernest is very passionate about finding and implementing better, simpler and cost-effective solutions to address some of the prevailing problems in developing countries. Particularly interested in problems that can be solved by the application of computational techniques. As such his passion is research, particularly in the varied fields of Artificial Intelligence - specifically machine learning and computer vision and how to apply these in such a way as to obtain an optimal solution to real-world problems in developing countries.

After completing his Software Engineering bachelor’s degree, Eric is currently working as a Research Asistant at Makerere University AI and Data Science Research Lab.

Mr. Benjamin Akera is a Software Engineer by profession. Currently a Machine Learning Engineer with the R&D team at Sama working mainly on Computer Vision. Previously, he was a research intern at Mila - Quebec AI Institute, working under the supervision of Prof. Yoshua Bengio on applied Machine Learning for climate change mitigation as well as humanitarian applications of AI. And before that, he worked with the Makerere University AI Lab in Uganda.

Dr. Joyce is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the School of Computing and Information Technology, Makerere University. She is also the scientific head of the Artificial Intelligence Lab and senior research fellow in the Software Systems Center at Makerere University.

Dr. Joyce obtained a PhD in Computer Science from Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science in the Architecture of Information Systems group under the supervision of prof. dr. ir. W. M.P. van der Aalst and Dr. M. Westergaard. Dr. Joyce's PhD study involved investigating the use of business process simulation and process mining to analyse the resource perspective of business processes.

Her areas of interest are Data Science i.e. (Machine Learning and Statistics). Her most recent work is in Geospatial data analysis and visualization, distance measure, and radio mapping. Ms. Namanya holds a bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering at Makerere University.

Godliver Owomugisha received her PhD in Computational intelligence & modeling of crop disease data in Africa from the University of Groningen in 2020. She received her Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Science from Makerere University in 2011 and 2015 respectively. Godliver is a Senior Lecturer at Busitema University in the Department of Computer Engineering. Godliver is also part of the Makerere AI Research Group. Her research interests are in machine learning and computational intelligence in relation to solving real world problems.

Currently working for Zindi Africa, a new data science competition platform building the AI and machine learning ecosystem in Africa.

Irene is an Artificial Intelligence enthusiast, a PhD student at Rhodes University attached to Rhodes Artificial Intelligence Research Group where she is doing her research in Conservation AI. Her goal is to build skills for contributing towards a transition to sustainable practices in Research and Artificial Intelligence in the developing world.

Claire is currently part of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Research Lab Makerere University as a mentor and a research. She is also a lecturer at Uganda Technology and Management University. Her background is in computer science specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Network Security. She carries a great enthusiasm for data science and machine learning with a zeal of harnessing the potential of AI in improving service delivery.