UP has received a $1 million (R18 million) donation from Google to support AfriDSAI – our African Institute for Data Science and AI, led by Prof Vukosi Marivate. This funding powers ethical AI research in agriculture, healthcare, language tech and climate resilience. It also supports emerging MSc, PhD and postdoc researchers from across Africa. “This gift strengthens our mission to build sustainable AI research communities across the continent,” says Prof Marivate. Africa currently contributes just 0.9% to global AI research — this changes the game. Read more: https://ow.ly/UuyH50WACl1 #UniversityOfPretoria #ProudlyUP #DataScience
Congrats and well done to UP, Vukosi and Team.🎉
Well deserved Vukosi, may the work you and your group do only go from strength to strength. Data Science Democratising at scale for Social Impact🌎🚀
Congratulations, Prof
Such An Inspiration, Congratulations Prof🎉
Congratulations! Prof.
Well done Vukosi!
Well done! prof Vukosi Marivate
Congratulations, Vukosi Marivate and University of Pretoria !!
You done the work and earned the respect, Congratulations
UP ABSA Chair of Data Science, Professor of CS: University of Pretoria, Co-Founder: Lelapa AI, Co-Founder Deep Learning Indaba & Masakhane NLP. Interest in Data Science, Natural Language Processing & AI in general
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