Bubacarr Bah

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Bubacarr Bah
Born
The Gambia
Alma materUniversity of the Gambia (BSc)
University of Oxford (MSc)
University of Edinburgh (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsApplied mathematics
Computational mathematics
Data science[1]
InstitutionsÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
University of Texas at Austin
Stellenbosch University
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Theses
Doctoral advisorJared Tanner[2]
Websitesites.google.com/aims.ac.za/bubacarr

Bubacarr Bah is a Gambian mathematician and chair of

Data Science at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS).[3][1] He is an assistant professor at Stellenbosch University and a member of the Google advanced technology external advisory council.[citation needed
]

Early life and education

Bah was born in

Gaussian matrices was awarded the SIAM best student paper.[12][13]

Research and career

Between 2012 and 2014 Bah was a postdoctoral researcher at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, where he continued his investigations into compressed sensing.[8] He was a member of the Laboratory for Information and Inference Systems.[14]

In 2014 Bah joined the University of Texas at Austin, where he worked on signal processing, machine learning and sampling strategies in high-dimensional data.[6][15] He developed a matrix for dimensionality reduction that uses bi-Lipschitz embeddings, which can exploit data redundancy.[16][17][18]

In 2016 Bah was appointed the German Chair in Mathematics at the

Humboldt Foundation.[15] The position was welcomed by the AIMS community, who believe Africa needs better data science infrastructure.[4] Bah organised the software engineering for Applied Mathematical Sciences workshop, which teaches basic programming and research programming.[19][20] He is responsible for connecting the AIMS in South Africa with central Africa and German universities.[21] As of 2019, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation support five chairs at AIMS centres.[22] He holds a joint position at Stellenbosch University, where he works on information theory and deep learning.[23][24]

In March 2019 Bah was appointed to the Google advanced technology external advisory council, a collection of experts who will consider the artificial intelligence (AI) principles of Google.[25]

References

  1. ^ a b Bubacarr Bah publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b Bubacarr Bah at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ORCID 0000-0003-3318-6668
  4. ^ a b "The AIMS network welcomes another Research Chair under the German Research Chair programme at AIMS". aims.ac.za. AIMS South Africa. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  5. ^ "Bubacarr Bah". deeplearningindaba.com. Deep Learning Indaba. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  6. ^ a b "Bubacarr Bah – LIONS". lions.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  7. OCLC 430338759. Free access icon
  8. ^ a b "Dr Bubacarr Bah | AIMS South Africa". Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  9. ^ a b Tanner, Jared (2018). "Mathematics Institute - Jared Tanner - Students & Postdocs". people.maths.ox.ac.uk. University of Oxford. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  10. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.578348. Free access icon
  11. ^ "Student chapter breakfast" (PDF). siam.org. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  12. S2CID 5859468
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  13. ^ "Mathematics People" (PDF). ams.org. American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  14. ^ "Dr Bubacarr Bah elected Humbolt [sic] Chair Faculty at AIMS South Africa". actu.epfl.ch. 2016-01-09.
  15. ^ a b "Bubacarr Bah Has Been Awarded the Prestigious German Chair in Mathematics | AIMS". nexteinstein.org. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  16. ^ "Computational Math Seminar: Bubacarr Bah". colorado.edu. 2015-10-06. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  17. ^ "Visiting delegation from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | AIMS Cameroon - NextEinstein Initiative". aims-cameroon.org. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  18. arXiv:1307.3457. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help
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  19. ^ "SEAMS Workshop v5 ~ TBD 2019!". seams-workshop.gitlab.io. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  20. ^ "AIMS South Africa : Data Science Workshop organised by Dr Bubacarr Bah, the German Research Chair of Mathematics | AIMS". nexteinstein.org. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  21. ^ "Humboldt Foundation strengthens university education and research in mathematics in Africa". humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  22. ^ "New research chair appointed in Africa". humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  23. ^ "SANUM - South African Numerical and Applied Mathematics". sanum.github.io. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  24. ^ "Bubacarr Bah | Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences". newton.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  25. ^ "An external advisory council to help advance the responsible development of AI". blog.google. 2019-03-26. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
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