Kathleen S. @siminyu_kat
Tweeting: AI, Language, Education, Africa. Building: Kiswahili voice tools @Mozilla, AI communities @DeepIndaba @MasakhaneNLP, tech companies @AtlanticaVC. kathleensiminyu.com Kilifi, Kenya Joined August 2010-
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The #AfricaNLP Workshop co-located at #ICLR2024 is happy to announce the list of accepted papers for this year’s workshop. We are proud as we continue to create a platform to encourage high-quality peer-reviewed publications of NLP researches in African languages.
🪘🪘🪘 We are thrilled to announce that the Deep Learning Indaba 2023 Short Papers are now publicly available on OpenReview! We have 81 Papers! This publication marks the culmination of hard work and dedication from all the authors and reviewers involved. We are incredibly…
✨🌟Job Opening⭐️✨ The Masakhane Research Foundation, through the support of FAIR Forward, an initiative of the German Development Cooperation (GIZ), is glad to announce two Data Governance Fellowship positions. 1/5
💥🧮 🚀 🚀 We are going to #Pwani for #AI Summit @PU_Kilifi! 🤖✨ This is a unique opportunity to dive into AI, connect with experts, innovate & showcase your work. 🌍💡 Students are encouraged to apply. #AI #DLI #ML #tinyML @shakir_za @siminyu_kat @ulrichpaquet @AIforGood
📢 Tunakuja Senegal 🇸🇳! 📢 Tunayo furaha kutangaza kwamba Deep Learning Indaba 2024 itafanyika Dakar, Senegal pale @MahtarMbow kuanzia tarehe 1 hadi 7 Septemba, 2024. Uzinduzi wa programu na usajili 🚀 uko karibu tu! Kaa macho 🔔 #DLI2024 #Indaba2024 @2ayasalama @ankahira…
S+T+ARTS is launching an Africa edition! The prize will highlight & award continental best-practice examples at the intersection of science, technology & arts. I'll join the award as a juror and would love to see representation, so be a sport and tag an African artist! 🎨🧪👩🏿💻
S+T+ARTS is launching an Africa edition! The prize will highlight & award continental best-practice examples at the intersection of science, technology & arts. I'll join the award as a juror and would love to see representation, so be a sport and tag an African artist! 🎨🧪👩🏿💻
I'm grateful for spaces and bookings that just let me play me! I had that genuinely dope set last night inside a cave, underneath the Kilifi night sky. Butter. @siminyu_kat @naba_goddess , thank you 😊🙏🏾
SEMILLA.AI v1 is out now! You can download here (download link in description): hexorcismos.bandcamp.com/merch/- We made this video which expains the process and research behind it... youtu.be/_2C3XeQgGtY We hope you enjoy this AI music synthesis tool!
Here you go: Rank 27 Top downloaded models: 1) NER models for 10 high-resource languages - huggingface.co/Davlan/distilb… - huggingface.co/Davlan/bert-ba… 2) AfroXLMR-61L for 61 African languages huggingface.co/Davlan/afro-xl…
Here you go: Rank 27 Top downloaded models: 1) NER models for 10 high-resource languages - huggingface.co/Davlan/distilb… - huggingface.co/Davlan/bert-ba… 2) AfroXLMR-61L for 61 African languages huggingface.co/Davlan/afro-xl… https://t.co/GTTGihBysY
Congratulations 👏🎉 @MasakhaneNLP and all co-authors @ucl_nlp (Marek Masiak and Pontus Stenetorp)
Congratulations 👏🎉 @MasakhaneNLP and all co-authors @ucl_nlp (Marek Masiak and Pontus Stenetorp)
This is an urgent call to the Danish Immigration Services to lift the 2-year EU Ban imposed on me, so that I can attend my film premiere in the Netherlands in less than 2 weeks!!! @denmarkinkenya #DanishImmigrationServices #UnlawfulTreatmentAbroad
Amazing to see my colleague @Abebab selected to be part of UN's high-level advisory body on AI. Congratulations, Abeba! More info here - un.org/en/ai-advisory…
I am very honored to be part of the @UN AI Advisory Board. Thank you to the UN Secretary-General for choosing me to be part of this amazing team. I look forward to working with the other members for a Global Responsible AI. @AiSenegal @UNTechEnvoy @GPAI_PMIA @OfficialAPET
I'm excited to be in Japan for #IGFKyoto #IGF2023! I'm doing a panel on AI with the excellent @AfinaYasmin @hillarybakrie @siminyu_kat & @ZoeDarme Join us in-person or online- Community-driven Responsible AI: A New Social Contract Weds 17:00 JST/ 8am GMT intgovforum.org/en/content/igf…
we have kicked off the Mozilla Common Voice hackathon series at @swahilipothub during Pwani Innovation Week #PIW2023 @ZindiAfrica @Africastalking @siminyu_kat @rryakitimbo1
We're so proud of our own Dr Aisha Walcott-Bryant, part of Google Research team in Nairobi, a visionary trailblazer, for making it to the first cohort of Black Women in Executive Leadership (B-WEL) Fellows! Congratulations!
At @StrathU, our President was welcomed to the campus by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research, Prof @DaSilva_Izael, and the Director of @StrathCIPIT, Dr @MelissaOmino, for a discussion on responsible #AI for development.
On Sunday morning I went exploring and found the most heavenly location in Nandi Hills. 📍Kapsimotwa Gardens
Congratulations to DSFSI lab member, and MSc student at @UPTuks, @siminyu_kat 🚀 Kathleen has been included in the 2023 PMI Future 50 cohort - "For democratizing machine learning—bringing speech and language technology to underserved communities" Read pmi.org/future-50/2023…
We are seeking prospective IndabaX 2024 Organisers from the following countries: Botswana, Angola, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo Brazzaville, Comoros, Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, São Tomé and Príncipe, Niger, Sierra Leone, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia,…
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573 Followers 288 Following Research Scientist, Google Research. Co-founder, @gaphealthtech. Passionate about using tech to democratize health.
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Kush Varshney कु�.. @krvarshney
3K Followers 613 Following I wrote a book. Free pdf: https://t.co/rFFL7mySnS Paperback: https://t.co/lF0IgC5T9z Tweets are my own and don't necessarily represent IBM.🌍 Last week spoke at @StanfordHAI for a panel on African AI Realities and Potential on the Africa Continent: * We need clear policies for responsible AI * Challenges include coordinating across borders * AI risks deepening inequalities & more Video youtube.com/watch?v=B9XYoe…
📢 Masakhane Weekly Presentation! 🎙️ Akintunde Oladipupo presents Better Quality Pretraining Data and T5 Models for African Languages aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-mai… 🗓️ Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2024 ⏰ Time: 4 PM UTC 🔗 Zoom Link: Available to members on Slack. #Masakhane #NLP
The #AfricaNLP Workshop co-located at #ICLR2024 is happy to announce the list of accepted papers for this year’s workshop. We are proud as we continue to create a platform to encourage high-quality peer-reviewed publications of NLP researches in African languages.
🪘🪘🪘 We are thrilled to announce that the Deep Learning Indaba 2023 Short Papers are now publicly available on OpenReview! We have 81 Papers! This publication marks the culmination of hard work and dedication from all the authors and reviewers involved. We are incredibly…
Thankful to have received the Lipman Family Prize last week at the University of Pennsylvania @Penn, @Wharton. Spending time with students and professors was such a highlight and so thankful to the Lipman Family and team for recognizing the work @Food4Education does. Excited for…
💯 this! The future of AI will be defined by smaller, more efficient models that can be run on laptops and improved upon by students, entrepreneurs and educators 🚀
I'm spending the weekend playing with the smaller version of Llama-3 (8bn) that will run on most laptops. It is really impressive, and it makes me think that extremely powerful models will run locally in future.
Honoured to have been selected as to pariticipate in the 17th round of "Austrian Leadership programs" #ALPSAustria, the international visitors program by @MFA_Austria Absolutely incredible program set for the week. #AUEU #visit #global #bmeia #globalexchange #industry #networks
Official opening of the 17th round of the "Austrian Leadership programs" #ALPSAustria , the international visitors program by @MFA_Austria : Secretary General Amb. Nikolaus Marschik welcomes 25 participants from all continents #Austria 🇦🇹 #ReFocusAustria #NetworksCreateFuture
Wow -- cannot believe C4AI Command-R is up to 150,000 downloads within 2 weeks 💙 Amazing to see the support. 🔥 huggingface.co/CohereForAI/c4…
#IJCAI2024 is proud to present the Chairs of AI for Social Good: 🦾Georgina Curto @georginacurto @techethicsnd 🦾Girmaw A. Tadesse @girmawAT @MSFTResearch 🦾Nitin Sawhney @CSAalto 🦾Sibusisiwe A. Makhanya @IBMResearch Africa 🦾Avishkar Bhoopchand @GoogleDeepMind @DeepIndaba
It has been a great week co-facilitating Nigerian AI strategy with 120+ globally recognized Nigerian AI researchers & practitioners in a high-powered workshop. @dsn_ai_network is humbled to lead this effort to position AI as a nation-defining capability for shared prosperity.
1/3 I'm thrilled to announce my book detailing my journey from Benin to impactful achievements in AI, with a special focus on healthcare and language technologies for underrepresented African languages. It’s already available for preorder a.co/d/iLQE1AC
I’m really excited about the launch of AfriClimate AI 🚀. Africa’s climate problems are specific, urgent and ready to be addressed by groups of committed Africans. I remember an idea at the last Indaba, now it has an excellent group having fun and creating change 🌍
✨🌍 Exciting news from the Heart of Africa! Introducing AfriClimate AI: blending AI with Climate Science for a sustainable, prosperous, and resilient Africa. 🌱 Join us in this journey to shape a climate-resilient Africa. Learn more: africlimate.ai/about/why-afri… #AfriClimateAI
We research, build and ship some of the most exciting and challenging products in the world, with passion from Nairobi. Come join us build M365 Copilot. We ❤️ engineers and scientists that ❤️ breaking and building things! jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/shar… @MasakhaneNLP @DeepIndaba
My #TEDXPretoria talk is out. This was a great experience, reflecting on my personal journey on #ArtificialIntelligence and representing our great communities at: @DeepIndaba, @MasakhaneNLP, @DSFSI_Research, @LelapaAI and more. @UPTuks
📺 Watch now!! Our PI Vukosi Marivate's TEDxPretoria talk titled <> "AI as Our Mirror: Exploring Ourselves Through AI Empowerment" | TEDxPretoria youtube.com/watch?v=TPr6_8…
✨🌟Job Opening⭐️✨ The Masakhane Research Foundation, through the support of FAIR Forward, an initiative of the German Development Cooperation (GIZ), is glad to announce two Data Governance Fellowship positions. 1/5
Our team is well represented at the ongoing @appliedmldays @ExperienceUSIU, Nairobi. February 26 - 29, 2024. #AMLD2024 @IngNdolo @siminyu_kat @ankahira @DeepIndaba @DeepIndaba
💥🧮 🚀 🚀 We are going to #Pwani for #AI Summit @PU_Kilifi! 🤖✨ This is a unique opportunity to dive into AI, connect with experts, innovate & showcase your work. 🌍💡 Students are encouraged to apply. #AI #DLI #ML #tinyML @shakir_za @siminyu_kat @ulrichpaquet @AIforGood
📢 Tunakuja Senegal 🇸🇳! 📢 Tunayo furaha kutangaza kwamba Deep Learning Indaba 2024 itafanyika Dakar, Senegal pale @MahtarMbow kuanzia tarehe 1 hadi 7 Septemba, 2024. Uzinduzi wa programu na usajili 🚀 uko karibu tu! Kaa macho 🔔 #DLI2024 #Indaba2024 @2ayasalama @ankahira…
Exciting changes for the Turing a great selection of Science and Innovation Directors 🚀👏. Excited to see the work from this area on environment and sustainability. Congrats to the new directors 🎉🌍
🌍Marc Deisenroth – #Environment & #Sustainability Welcome to Marc, leading the charge in finding solutions for #decarbonisation & environmental systems. Marc joins from @ucl where he is the @GoogleDeepMind Chair of #ArtificialIntelligence and Machine Learning #SustainableFuture
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