DSA 2026 Workshop Time Table |
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| Day | Time | Session Type | Details | Track | SPEAKER |
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08:00 - 08:30 | Arrival & Registration | - | - | - |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Opening | Welcome Remarks | - | ||
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Speech | Official Opening | - | - | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Keynote 1 | African Language Models: The New Frontiers' | All |
Dr. John Quinn and Dr. Ernest Mwebaze, Sunbird AI
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| 10:30 - 11:20 | Break | Coffee Break, Group Photo, and Networking | - | - | |
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11:20 - 13:00
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Paper Session 1
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What Happens to AI When the Lights Go Out? Infrastructure-Aware Robustness Benchmarking of Vision and NLP Models Under African Deployment Conditions |
All
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Sunday Aspita Abraham (MLC, Nigeria) | |
| Hybrid Kolmogorov–Arnold Graph Neural Networks and Probabilistic Graphical Models for Retention Time Prediction in Pharmaceutical LC–MS Workflows | Farouk Zainab (AIMS Senegal) | ||||
| Mapping Brick Kilns Using Semantic Segmentation of Multi-Modal Satellite Imagery | Patrick Anaku (Makerere University, Uganda) | ||||
| Learning Ordinal Latent Representations for Subject-Independent Parkinsonian Rigidity Estimation | Okello Andrew Peters (Makerere University, Uganda) | ||||
| When Synthetic Data Hurts: DCGAN Augmentation Failure Under Extreme Data Scarcity for Cassava Disease Classification in East Africa | Innocent Nyalala (SAAIL Lab, Tanzania) | ||||
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Break | Lunch & Networking | - | - | |
| 14:30-15:10 | Invited Talk | AI on the Edge & Resource-Constrained Environments | Arm | ||
| 15:10-16:45 | Panel discussion | Data Scarcity, Uncertainty, and AI in African Contexts | All | Moderator: Dr. Joyce Nakatumba Nabende | |
| 16:45 - 16:50 | Closing | - | - | - | |
| 18:00-20:00 | Welcome Reception | ||||
2 |
08:00 - 08:30 | Arrival | - | - | - |
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09:00 - 10:00
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Paper Session 2
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Attention-Based and Physics-Informed LSTM Models for Interpretable Weather Forecasting |
All
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Immaculate Kamusiime (Makerere University, Uganda) | |
| Automated Quality Control of Rainfall Telemetry via a Luenberger Virtual Sensor | Samuel Mbugua (Dedan Kimathi University of Tech, Kenya) | ||||
| Digitizing Informal Market Negotiation: A Culturally-Aware AI Chatbot for E-Commerce in Sub-Saharan Africa | Nana Dilan Kenye (University of Buea, Cameroon) | ||||
| Explainable and Uncertainty-Aware Variational Graph Recurrent Neural Network for Brain Tumor Classification from MRI | Bonou Bienvenu A. Eudes (AIMS Senegal) | ||||
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Break | Coffee break and Networking | |||
| 10:30-12:00 | Panel Ssesion | The Future of Careers and Work in the AI Era (A panel discussion of the roadmap to getting there) |
Moderator: Dr. Godliver Owomugisha | ||
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12:00-13:00
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Poster Session
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Automated Early Detection of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Radiographs Using Neural Networks |
All
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Jerome Teyi (AIMS Senegal) | |
| Low-Resource Swahili–Kalenjin Neural Machine Translation via QLoRA Fine-Tuning of NLLB-200 | Cyprian Kiplangat (Kabarak University, Keynya) | ||||
| Bridging the Language Gap in Text-to-SQL: Adapting LLMs for Chichewa in a Low-Resource Setting | John Eze (AIMS Rwanda) | ||||
| Evaluating Machine Learning Algorithms for Predicting Tuberculosis Cases in Mulago National Referral Hospital: | Ekiru Ernest Ochepa (Makerere University, Uganda) | ||||
| Few-Shot Transfer Learning for Cassava Leaf Disease Detection Under East African Field Conditions | Innocent Nyalala (SAAIL Lab, Tanzania) | ||||
| Auditing Representation in Crop Disease Benchmark Datasets Intended for Sub-Saharan African Deployment | Innocent Nyalala (SAAIL Lab, Tanzania) | ||||
| Agentic AI Framework for Uncertainty-Aware and Explainable Stroke Detection in Data-Scarce African Healthcare Settings | Wisdom Komla Domevenou (ISSEA, Cameroon) | ||||
| Explainable Respiratory disease classification: using respiratory sound and patient’s symptom data | Hiwot Habtamu (Adama S&T University, Ethiopia) | ||||
| Leveraging Open-Source LLMs for Political Discourse Analysis in Africa: Stance and Sentiment in Malian Coup Tweets | Gedeon Gbedonou (University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin) | ||||
| Contactless fish weighing | TeegWende Zougmore (Université Nazionale de Burkina, Burkina Faso) | ||||
| Contactless Vital Signs Monitoring via Remote Photoplethysmography for Low-Resource African Healthcare Settings | AGBAN Kokou Ezechiel (Togo Data Lab, Togo) | ||||
| Low-Resource ASR for Kalenjin: Transfer Learning and Language Model Integration | Kevin Obote (Strathmore University, Kenya) | ||||
| Adapting Large Language Models to Localized Domains using QLORA | William Udousoro Joseph (University of Lagos, Nigeria) | ||||
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Break | Lunch & Networking | - | - | |
| 14:00-14:30 | Reproductive Health in Africa Innovation Challenge presentations and awards |
Track I: Access to Comprehensive Early Pregnancy Loss Care ChaguoAI |
All | Lucy Natecho Namusonge GODFREY MBUGUA |
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| 14:30-15:30 | Awards & Closing Ceremony | ||||
