Machine Learning for the Developing World (ML4D). NeurIPS 2021 Workshop. 🗓️December 14th, 2021

Joined November 2020
A very powerful talk by @Manletouze. need days to properly unpack it.🙌
Now starting our last talk of the day with @ManuLetouze, Director and Co-founder of @datapopalliance. Join us on Zoom or on the #NeurIPS Virtual Site.
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Now starting our last talk of the day with @ManuLetouze, Director and Co-founder of @datapopalliance. Join us on Zoom or on the #NeurIPS Virtual Site.
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Pyjama party went great! 🤩💫 Thank you for having me @ML4Dworkshop and well done on a wonderful job year after year.
One of our main takeaways from a delightful Panel Session: “We have to reimagine the opportunities that are present in the developing world” Thank you to all our panelists! @siminyu_kat @bernardt_d @ariascvi @ProfDavidHughes
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One of our main takeaways from a delightful Panel Session: “We have to reimagine the opportunities that are present in the developing world” Thank you to all our panelists! @siminyu_kat @bernardt_d @ariascvi @ProfDavidHughes
Wonderful ideas are being discussed at our #PanelSession right now ⬇️
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Ongoing!!! Zeal Shah (Profile: zealshah95.github.io) Ph.D. student in the STIMA Lab, University of Massachusetts Amherst Contributed Talk: A Higher Purpose: Measuring Electricity Access Using High-Resolution Daytime Satellite Imagery
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Mentorship session going on right now! I love the discussion, focused on deployment and making #AI work in the real-world, for the most vulnerable populations💪
Its brainstorming time!!! Join our Problem Pitch Session at GatherTown #NeurIPS2021 #ML4D2021
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Its brainstorming time!!! Join our Problem Pitch Session at GatherTown #NeurIPS2021 #ML4D2021
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Machine Learning Models Evaluation and Feature Importance Analysis on NLP Dataset Mentors: Giles Hooker; Jerzy Wieczorek
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Safeguarding People against Social Media Fraud during the COVID-19 Oxygen Supply Crisis in India Mentors: Daniel B. Neill; Scott Cameron
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Starting Now!!! Steven Kolawole (@steveddev ) Researcher ML Collective Contributed Talk: Sign-to-Speech Model for Sign Language Understanding: A Case Study of Nigerian Sign Language #NeurIPS2021 #ML4D2021
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Starting Now!!! Stephanie Sy (linkedin: bit.ly/3DYeSWC) Founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Invited Talk: Poverty Models in Action, Lessons from 3 Years of Working With the Public Sector #NeurIPS2021 #ML4D2021
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Difficulty experienced when proposing machine learning models for poverty estimation to stakeholders in Philippines.
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Take a look at some papers that gives more information on the impactful works at Thinking Machine.
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Thanks @ML4Dworkshop for inviting me; deeply appreciate all the thoughtful questions from the organizing committee & audience! Key papers I covered #AIforPublicHealth: 1. AAAI'21 [HIV prevention] teamcore.seas.harvard.edu/fi… 2.AAAI'22 [Maternal & child care] teamcore.seas.harvard.edu/fi…
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Two projects discussed: 1. Social networks: HIV prevention 2. Restless bandits: Maternal & child care Both highlighting their real-world applications. #NeurIPS2021 #ML4D2021
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Poster Sessions have begun!!! Checkout the interesting posters @ GatherTown #NeurIPS2021 #ML4PS2021
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[POSTER] Could AI Democratise Education? Socio-Technical Imaginaries of an EdTech Revolution By Sahan Bulathwela; Maria Pérez-Oritz; Catherine Holloway; John Shawe-Taylor
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[POSTER] A Higher Purpose: Measuring Electricity Access Using High-Resolution Daytime Satellite Imagery By Zeal Shah; Simone Fobi; Gabriel Cadamuro; Jay Taneja
[POSTER] On pseudo-absence generation and machine learning for locust breeding ground prediction in Africa By Ibrahim Yusuf; Kale-ab Tessera; Thomas Tumiel; Sella Nevo; Amu Pretorius
[POSTER] Collaborative Approach to the Analysis of the COVID-19 Response in Africa By Sharon Okwako; Irene Wanyana; Alice Namale; Betty Kivumbi; Sekou Remy; William Ogallo; Susan Kizito; Aisha Walcott-Bryant; Rhoda Wanyenze
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