6TH
DSA 2019
Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Since 2015, Data Science Africa (DSA) has held an annual summer school and workshop to train participants on machine learning and data science methods and provide an avenue for researchers to present work demonstrating the application of these techniques to problems relevant in the African context.
DATE
3rd - 7th June, 2019
DSA June 2019
For 2019, DSA will have two events: DSA 2019 Addis in Ethiopia 03rd to 07th June for East Africa and DSA 2019 Accra for West Africa -date to be confirmed. This follows two events last year with DSA 2018 Abuja in Nigeria 12th to 16th November and DSA 2018 Nyeri in Kenya, and May 31st to June 8th. DSA 2019 Addis Ababa will take DSA’s traditional structure of a three days Summer School and a two Day workshop under the theme "End-to-end Data Science".
DSA 2019 Addis tentative speakers and instructors include:
- Timnit Gebru, Google AI
- Damon Civin, ARM
- Ernest Mwebaze, Google AI, Ghana and Makerere University
- John Quinn, Google AI and Makerere University
- Neil Lawrence, Amazon UK and University of Sheffield
- Billy Okal, Voyage
- Ciira wa Maina, Dedan Kimathi University of Technology
- Hellen Nigussie , Addis Ababa University
- Elaine Nsoesie, Boston University
- Moustapha Cisse, Google AI
- Martin Mubangizi, Pulse Lab Kampala
- Eric Sodomka, Facebook Research
- Michael Mayhew, Inflammatix, USA
- Daniel Mutembesa, AIR Lab, Makerere University
Highlights
Virtual summer school on machine learning and data science targeting graduate students, researchers, and professionals working with huge amounts of data or unique datasets, and challenges relevant to the African continent.
Full-day of virtual workshop with participant presentations and interactive panel discussions.
