News Update & Events 

 

2025

• 05.2025 - 3i Africa Summit, Accra, Ghana.

• 04.2025 - World Summit Award, Hyderabad, India.

• 04.2025 - Global AI Summit on Africa, Kigali, Rwanda.

• 03.2025 - EQUAL Compute Network Workshop II, Kigali, Rwanda.

• 02.2025 - EQUAL Compute Network Workshop I, Paris, France.

2024

• 11.2024 - Visiting and Teaching at AIMS, Mbour, Senegal,

• 11.2024 -  MozFest House Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia. 

• 11.2024 - Attending The World Academy of Science (TWAS) meeting, Dakar, Senegal. 

• 10.2024 - Keynote Speaker, Annual General & Scientific Meeting, Ghana Optometry Association, Koforidua.

• 10.2024 - Visiting Professor, University of L'Aquila, Italy.

• 09.2024 -  Keynote Speaker, AI Afahy3, Ghana.

• 09.2024 -  Invited Speaker, Google Health & AI Workshop, Accra, Ghana

• 09.2024 - Attending Deep Learning Indaba 2024, Dakar, Senegal.

• 08.2024 - Google Research grant (USD 70,000.00) for Multimodal and Multilingual LLM for Global Health.

• 07.2024 - MoU for graduate students to go on annual exchange program to University of L'Aquila, Italy.

• 07.2024 - Co-shaping of African Language Artificial Intelligence Hub, Nairobi, Kenya.

• 06.2024 - Google Research grant (USD 25,000.00) for Adversarial Nibbling.

• 06.2024 - Co-organizing CIMPA School Analysis and Numerics of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), Cape Coast, Ghana.

• 05.2024 - We won the AfriMed-QA project funded by Bill & Melinda Gates, Google Research and PATH (USD 100,000.00)

• 02.2024 - Visiting The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Nairobi, Kenya.

• 01.2024 - Started the University of Cape Coast Artificial Intelligence colloquium series. 

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2023

• 12.2023 - Computational Data Science Workshop, University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

• 12.2023 - Panel Member, WASCAL CICLES Project Inception, Accra, Ghana.

• 12.2023 - Presenting at AIMS-Bonn DAAD Symposium, Universitaetsklinikum Bonn, Germany.

• 11.2023 - Preprint on Stochastic Malaria-COVID-19 with M. Pobbi and S. Naandam completed and online.

• 11.2023 - Google award for low-resource test-to-speech (USD 30,000.00) to build on our work at Ghana NLP

• 11.2023 - Visiting and Teaching at AIMS Senegal.

• 11.2023 - Visiting The Pan African University Institute for Basic Sciences, technology and Innovation (PAUSTI), Juja, Kenya.

• 11.2023 - We won the AI Solutions for Humanitarian Challenges (together with University College of London, GBP 150,000.00).  

• 10.2023 - Teaching Machine Learning Techniques for Public Health  sponsored by Gates Foundation

• 10.2023 - Solomon Nortey completed his AIMS research and made a preprint. 

• 09.2023 - Co-organizing Mathematics for Machine Learning session at Deep Learning Indaba, Accra.

• 09.2023 - We finally published the article on the project "Exploiting Root-System Architecture ..." here.

• 08.2023 - My Teaching Assistant, Solomon Nortey will begin his graduate studies at North Dakota State University, USA.

• 08.2023 - Teaching at Ghana School of Mathematical Modelling  

• 07.2023 - My teaching assistant Clement Danso begins his graduate studies at Ohio University, USA.

• 06.2023 - Organizing a session at AfricAI Conference, Kigali, Rwanda.

• 04.2023 - Visiting QLA for Theory to Practice Workshop in Kigali, Rwanda.

• 02.2023 - Proposal for CIMPA School on "Analysis and Numerics of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)" has been accepted. Its happening June 2024 at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

• 01.2023 - Together with my Teaching Assistant, Michael Opoku (currently at UTEP, USA) published his AIMS research.

 

2022

• 12.2022 - Will be supervising doctoral students at WASCAL,Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

• 12.2022 - Virtual presentation at 14th FREEFEM DAYS, Paris, France.

• 12.2022 - Became an affiliate member of the African Academy of Science

• 12.2022 - Plenary speaker at WASCAL's 10 years anniversary, Ougadougou, Burkina Faso.

• 11.2022 - Team member in writing Ghana Artificial Intelligence policy. 

• 11.2022 - Will be supervising doctoral students at Quantum Leap Africa, Rwanda

• 11.2022 - Co-organizing 2nd Mathematical Biology and Medicine Workshop with a special issue by Frontiers.

• 11.2022 - Presenting at Singular Days 2022, Nice, France

• 09.2022 - Presenting at the Chemnitz Finite Element Symposium 2022, Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany. 

• 08.2022 - Co-organizing the 2nd Ghana Numerical Analysis Day  - there will be a special issue by MDPI.

• 07.2022 - My teaching assistant, Solomon Nortey, will commence graduate studies at AIMS, Cameroon in August, 2022 and my former teaching assistant Daniel Kakou began his doctoral studies at University of Iowa, USA.

• 07.2022 - Visiting INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France. 

• 06.2022 - My AIMS supervisees submitted their thesis and graduated. They have gained full scholarships to pursue graduate studies; Rexford Boakye (Miami University at Oxford Ohio, USA) and my teaching assistant Michael Osei Opoku​ (UTEP, USA). 

• 06.2022 - Attended workshop and school at the Hausdorff Center of Mathematics, University of Bonn, Germany.

• 06.2022  - Received Google award (USD 30,000.00) to build on our work at Ghana NLP.

• 05.2022 - Presented Ghana NLP's work at the reopening of Google Headquarters in Accra, Ghana.

• 04.2022 - I participated in Tony Blair Institute's discussion on AI framework for Ghana.

• 04.2022 - The Science and Society radio discussion continued, i spoke about Mathematics meets Industry

• 04.2022 - Our proposal for GB-PIE (GBP 20,000.00) won the British Council's call. 

• 01.2022 - My teaching assistant gained a full scholarship to pursue graduate studies; Noah Borquaye (East Tennessee State University, USA). In 2021, Richmond Owusu also got full scholarship to go to Ohio University, USA.