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I will be leading and co-organizing both WiDS Kenya and Africa conference to coincide with the global with the goal of inspiring, supporting and educating Data Scientists in Kenya, especially Women.
I will be leading and co-organizing Women in Data Science WiDS Datathon Workshops. This is an event for everyone interested in Data Science to hone their data science skills with the WiDS Datathon 2023 challenge which is hosted on Kaggle platform.
Super excited to attend EMNLP 2022 Conference hosted in Abu Dhabi, UAE - my first in-person conference.
Our paper: Participatory Translations of Oshiwambo:Towards Sustainable Culture Preservation with Language Technology got accepted at the NLP4PI workshop, EMNLP 2022 Conference.
I was super honored to be recognized by the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Worldwide at Stanford University as a top Ambassador promoting Data Science Kenya/Africa. (WiDS Ambassador Millicent Ochieng Hosts WiDS Conference and Datathon in Kenya.)
Our paper: Language Patterns and Behaviour of the Peer Supporters in Multilingual Healthcare Conversational Forumsgot accepted - LREC 2022.
Our paper: A Few Thousand Translations Go a Long Way! Leveraging Pre-trained Models for African News Translation got accepted - NAACL 2022.
Our paper: Participatory Translations of Oshiwambo: Towards Sustainable Culture Preservation with Language Technology got accepted at the AfricaNLP workshop, ICLR 2022.
I am co-organizing and hosting the WiDS Kenya conference to coincide with the global WiDS Stanford Conference with the goal of inspiring, supporting and educating Data Scientists in Kenya, especially Women
Bringing WiDS Datathon to my region – Kenya/Africa by co-organizing WiDS Kenya Datathon event for participants to hone their data science skills with the WiDS Datathon Challenge.
Super thrilled to become WiDS Kenya 2022 Ambassador and to represent Microsoft Africa Research Institute (MARI) in promoting WiDS Kenya/Africa.
Super excited to join Microsoft Africa Research Institute (MARI) as a Data & Applied Scientist in Nairobi, Kenya.
Attending Deep Learning IndabaX Uganda 2021 Workshop; The Social Impact of AI.
Excited to be among the shortlisted fellows attending Nordic Probabilistic AI Summer School and Workshop.
Tada!!! My thesis project proposal on Transfer Learning for classification of bean plant leaf diseases in precision agriculture got approved.
Excited to join Harvard IACS 2021 ComputeFest Workshop; Advanced Applied Deep Learning.
Super thrilled to join Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS) at Harvard University as a Research Intern.
Joining Data Science Africa: Summer School and Workshop.