Raesetje Sefala (Distributed AI Research(DAIR) institude)

Raesetje is an AI Research Fellow who uses Computer Vision, Data Science and general Machine Learning techniques to mainly explore research questions with a societal impact. Her research focuses on creating ground truth datasets and using machine learning and other computational social science techniques to study spatial segregation in South Africa, post-Apartheid. Raesetje is a qualified Data Scientist and holds a Computer Science Masters degree from the University of the Witwatersrand with a special focus on Machine learning. She has been technically involved in different complex Data Science projects from around the world that involved building innovative solutions. She is mainly interested in using AI to solve problems experienced in developing countries; creating and analysing datasets for machine learning designing and developing efficient data science/machine learning pipelines for different types of datasets, and contributing to making better data and technology policies that serve communities.

Timnit Gebru (Black in AI)

Timnit Gebru was recently fired by Google for raising issues of discrimination in the workplace. Prior to that she was a co-lead of the Ethical AI research team at Google Brain. She received her PhD from the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, studying computer vision under Fei-Fei Li, and did a postdoc at Microsoft Research, New York City in the FATE (Fairness Accountability Transparency and Ethics in AI) group, where she studied algorithmic bias and the ethical implications underlying projects aiming to gain insights from data. Timnit also co-founded Black in AI, a nonprofit that works to increase the presence, inclusion, visibility and health of Black people in the field of AI.

Luzango Mfupe

Nyalleng Moorosi (Google Ghana)

Richard Klein (University of the Witwatersrand)