L-R: Lydie Hakizimana, Chief Executive Officer – AIMS and Prof Yossi Matias, Vice President, Engineering & Research – Google, during the partnership agreement signing |
The agreement seeks to further strengthen
the partnership between both institutions as part of efforts to enforce their
ongoing commitment to collaborate and advance computing and technology in
Africa.
We are excited about this partnership as it
will afford researchers and students at AIMS a great opportunity to deepen
their collaboration with scientists at Google research. AIMS is Africa’s
largest network of centres for postgraduate training in mathematical sciences
and their applications. We take pride in our mission to empower talented young
Africans to be creative leaders in science and technology. We ensure that our
students and alumni are in touch with reality and are hungry to pursue
excellence through collaboration in addressing Africa’s mega challenges.” –
Lydie Hakizimana, Chief Executive Officer – AIMS.
In 2018, AIMS received the support of
Google as one of the founding partners of the African Masters in Machine
Intelligence (AMMI) Program, which has successfully trained over 100 students
in the area of AI and data science.
The AMMI program, known as the best
Artificial Intelligence (AI) education in Africa, has successfully been run in
three AIMS Centres: Rwanda, Senegal and Ghana.
Our partnership with AIMS started in 2018,
with the launch of the African Master’s in Machine Intelligence, which we are
happy to continue our funding support. On my visit to AIMS Ghana Campus last
week I was reminded of the great potential in Africa, and we’re excited to
deepen our collaboration with AIMS by signing the Master Sponsored Research
Agreement, to enable research and leadership sponsored programs developing
young tech-talent in Africa. AI is a breathtaking tool that gives us the power
to change our world and which will help us build in Africa, for Africa, and the
world” – Prof Yossi Matias, Vice President, Engineering & Research – Google.
In the past three years, Google Research’s
AI Lab in Accra has played host to several AIMS researchers, including some
alumni of the AMMI program who are shaping the use of machine learning
technologies in Africa.
Notable amongst these alumni is Abigail
Annkah – who is part of the first cohort of graduates from the AMMI Program,
joined Google Research in Accra as a Research Software Engineer whose
contribution to improving GoogleMaps has led to the mapping of millions of
buildings and sq. km of roads previously unmapped.
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