Abdoulaye Diack
Research Program Manager at Google AI | Abdoulaye.AI
Abdoulaye Diack is a husband, father of two and a Program Manager at Google AI 🤖.
Abdoulaye is part of a Google research team in Accra that focuses on impact driven research and innovation.
Prior to joining Google Research Abdoulaye spent 15 years in engineering and management roles working with various teams across all continents (Tanzania, Senegal, Canada, US, France, Germany, UK, Indonesia, etc.) working for Ericsson on mobile financial services and payments. Abdoulaye also spent several years designing and deploying data warehouses systems for Telcos.
Abdoulaye holds a BSc degree of Software Engineering from Concordia University, Montréal, Canada. He is from Senegal 🇸🇳 and has made Ghana 🇬🇠his home for the past few years.
Interests
- Research + innovation + startups in Africa
- AI/ML in resource and data constrained environment (Computer vision & NLP & TinyML)
- AI for social good
- Digital transformation & AI policy
Resources
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| Resources for Researchers | - Google Programs for African researchers and academics |
| Education | - Machine Learning Crash Course -Kaggle Courses |
| Community | -Data Science Africa -Machine Learning and Data Science Africa -Black In AI -Indaba Deep Learning -Google for Startups |
Work
Abdoulaye works on research talent building programs and AI projects in Africa.
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| Google AI Residency in Accra, Ghana | Running a research residency program that helps launch the career of young African researchers at our Google AI site in Accra, Ghana |
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Mapping Africa with AI Using cutting edge applied AI with a research team of Software engineer and scientists we work improve maps in Africa and open source the footprint |
| Google Brain team | Research Ops and cutting edge applied AI/ML research/projects |
| Google Research Outreach | Strengthening research @ labs, Startups and Universities in Africa through various Google and partners programs. |
News & Publications
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| Blog | How mapping the world’s buildings makes a difference |  |
| Panel Host - Namibia 4IR Conference | A Panel on 4IR technologies and research |  |
| Blog | Using AI to map Africa’s buildings |  |
| CNN Interview | How Ghana’s rising tech scene is getting even bigger |  |
| BBC Interview | Google releases buildings and structure datasets for Africa promises progress in mapping, planning and addresses. |  |
| Panel Host - AMLD Africa | NLP and the African context featuring Instadeep and Rural Sense -AI & NLP |  |