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Microsoft Research Lab – Africa, Nairobi

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Upcoming Seminar

MSR Africa & AI For Good Seminar | Mapping the World: Creating a Global and Temporal High-Resolution Building Density Map

31st July 2024 | 14:00 -15:00 (EAT)

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Past seminars

Making Sentence Embeddings Robust to User-Generated Content 

May 2024 Seminar

MARI - April 2024 seminar

AI For All: Embracing Equity for All 

April 2024 Seminar

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Combining Machine Learning and Bayesian networks for Decision Support in Arrythmia Diagnosis 

March 2024 Seminar

Strategic Subset Selection in Satellite Imagery: Insights from the Machine Vision for Earth Observation Challenge

Strategic Subset Selection in Satellite Imagery: Insights from the Machine Vision for Earth Observation Challenge 

February 2024 Seminar

Wildlife Conflict Resolution: Boma & Cattle Detection in the Masai Mara using AI

Wildlife Conflict Resolution: Boma & Cattle Detection in the Masai Mara using AI 

September 2023 Seminar

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Exploring the Complex Dependence Structure of Weather Predictors Using Vine Copulas 

August 2023 Seminar

Keypoint Detection for Measuring Body Size of Giraffes: Enhancing Accuracy and Precision

Keypoint Detection for Measuring Body Size of Giraffes: Enhancing Accuracy and Precision 

July 2023 Seminar

MEGA: Multi-lingual Evaluation of Generative AI

MEGA: Multi-lingual Evaluation of Generative AI 

June 2023 Seminar

Large Language Models and Low Resource Languages

Large Language Models and Low Resource Languages 

April 2023 Seminar

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Navigating the Limits of AI Explainability: Designing for Novice Technology Users in Low-Resource Settings 

March 2023 Seminar

Behind the label: Glimpses of data labelling labours for AI

Behind the label: Glimpses of data labelling labours for AI 

February 2023 Seminar

Fighting the Global Social Media Infodemic: from Fake News to Harmful Content 

Fighting the Global Social Media Infodemic: from Fake News to Harmful Content 

January 2023 Seminar

Irrational Design: Considering Reflexivity, Speculation and Long-term Engagement in Human-Computer Interaction for Development (HCI4D)

Irrational Design: Considering Reflexivity, Speculation and Long-term Engagement in Human-Computer Interaction for Development (HCI4D) 

September 2022 Seminar

A Prediction Model for Malaria using an Ensemble of Machine Learning & Hydrological Drought Indices

A Prediction Model for Malaria using an Ensemble of Machine Learning & Hydrological Drought Indices 

August 2022 Seminar

Detecting and mitigating bias in voice activated technologies

Detecting and mitigating bias in voice activated technologies 

May 2022 Seminar

Deep Medicine: Leveraging AI for health in a relevant and impactful way in Africa

Deep Medicine: Leveraging AI for health in a relevant and impactful way in Africa 

April 2022 Seminar

Overview of AI Research at the VUB Artificial Intelligence Lab

Overview of AI Research at the VUB Artificial Intelligence Lab 

March 2022 Seminar

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Social Media and Elections in Africa: A blessing or a curse? 

February 2022 Seminar