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ML with Social Purpose. @[email protected] | Research Scientist @DeepMind | Strengthening African ML @DeepIndaba. He/Him. South African 🇿🇦🏳️‍🌈🌍

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Shakir Mohamed
2 years
Very honoured to be included in this year’s #Time100AI list of influential people in AI🎈And more so the humbling messages from so many people ❤️. The work on directing AI to social purpose remains, and the ownership and inclusion of global communities🌍.
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RT @DeepIndaba: Rwanda here we go ! 🇷🇼. We are excited to announce that the Deep Learning Indaba 2025 annual event will be back for its 7th….
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RT @IlanPrice: GenCast is out in @Nature! It's the first high res ML ensemble weather forecast which outperformed the operational state of….
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The next generation of probabilistic machine learning for weather called GenCast is published in @Nature today 🥳. Amazing to see the collective progress in ML for weather as a field over the last 5 years. 🏖️
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RT @nathanbenaich: News! @modal_labs is supporting @RAAIS fellowships with $10,000 credits on their platform, alongside the $5,000 GPU cred….
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RT @dgtbarrett: Excited to share our work on ‘Collaboration between clinicians and vision–language models in radiology report generation’,….
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RT @AdaLovelaceInst: 👻Spooked by AI? It’s not the first time policymakers have had to govern highly complex, socially-important technologie….
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Shakir Mohamed
9 months
LearnLM - our work on AI in Education - is a finalist in this year's @anthemawards which honors mission-driven social impact work. We'd love your vote before the closing date on Oct 31 at 11:59pm PT in these 2 categories: ..
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RT @FAccTConference: We've released the CFP for #FAccT2025, which will be held in Athens, Greece! 🇬🇷 Abstracts are due on January 15th, pap….
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Shakir Mohamed
9 months
We have been busy this month @FAccTConference. We’ve released the Call for Papers - consider submitting your best work in fairness, interpretability, safety, trustworthiness and other topics in sociotechnical AI 🤩. also see the new contributor Guides.
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RT @IasonGabriel: Are you interested in exploring questions at the ethical frontier of AI research?. If so, then take a look at this new op….
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RT @Dr_Atoosa: In our new paper co-authored by @jackayline and @shakir_za, we investigate how generative AI can undermine the integrity of….
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Shakir Mohamed
9 months
I’m so excited about the launch and the first steps from the Middle East and North Africa MENA AI community. Over the last decade global AI communities have built up.Momentum and success and this is a needed addition. Please support them in any way you can. 🌍🚀❤️.
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About Us 🌟 . The 2025 Middle East & North Africa (MENA) Machine Learning Winter School is a premier event dedicated to nurturing the next generation of AI leaders. Hosted in the vibrant city of Doha, Qatar from February 9-15, 2025.
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RT @JayneAmol: The importance of language representation in NLP cannot be overstated. This survey paper by the Kenya NLP group highlights t….
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RT @ankahira: Fun fact: The idea for this paper was conceptualised at @DeepIndaba in Ghana. Almost all authors attended DLI and decided to….
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RT @RMBattleday: For AI students, researchers & entrepreneurs in London:. Join our Autumn Summit on Open Problems i….
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Shakir Mohamed
9 months
I’m honoured to be one of the @FAccTConference Programme Chairs this year, alongside the amazing @jennwvaughan @sinafazelpour @TaliaGillis 🤩 and we’ve been hard at work already. The CFP is coming soon, but the key dates everyone are now set. Happy paper planning 🚀
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10 months
RT @nmervegurel: Submit your proposal to hold a workshop @iclr_conf in Singapore! The deadline is 20 October, 11.59pm AoE ⏳.
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RT @vukosi: My @ICMLConf 2024 Keynote/Invited talk from July is now available. Thanks ICML for the opportunity!. 🎥 ICML Invited Talk <> G….
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RT @kbeguir: It's Ai Day! Together with our colleagues at @BioNTech_Group we will be providing an update on our joint work innovating in AI….
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RT @EmtiyazKhan: We have two open post-doc positions. You dont' have to be a Bayesian but somebody who is interested to work with at the in….
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