Press
Where TRI AI's work appears.
A running record of articles, talks, citations, and mentions across the AI research and development community.
Featured in
- Deep Learning Indaba
- arXiv
- NeurIPS 2021
- The Nation
- AI4D
- CAWSTEM Blog
- Tech Cabal
- Fast Company
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Building Africa's AI future together
Coverage of TRI AI's mission and the broader landscape of African AI institutions building learning, research, and innovation infrastructure on the continent.
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Learning Nigerian Accent Embeddings from Speech (SautiDB-Naija)
Foundational Sauti Project paper introducing SautiDB-Naija - a Nigerian L2 English speech corpus and accent-embedding methodology.
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SautiDB-Naija - A Nigerian L2 English Speech Corpus
Sauti Project research presented at the NeurIPS 2021 ML4D workshop, with associated materials on SlidesLive and OpenReview.
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Pelumi Oladokun leads AI Saturdays Lagos team in winning AI4D innovation grant
An AI Saturdays Lagos research team wins the AI4D innovation grant for work on locally-grounded AI applications.
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Tejumade Afonja, AI Saturdays Lagos: on AI and local communities
Interview with TRI AI's co-founder on building locally-grounded AI communities and the work of AI Saturdays Lagos.
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Meet Tejumade Afonja - Machine Learning Researcher & Co-founder of AI Saturdays Lagos
Tejumade Afonja is a Machine Learning researcher and co-founder of AI Saturdays Lagos whose passion for mathematics, machines, and robotics led her from Mechanical Engineering into Artificial Intelligence. Through AI Saturdays Lagos, she is helping democratize AI education in Nigeria and inspiring more women to pursue STEM careers.
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My Life In Tech: Tejumade Afonja is running the biggest AI classes you haven’t heard of
Tejumade Afonja is a co-organiser and co-founder of AI Saturdays Lagos, one of Africa’s largest grassroots AI training communities, where she helps deliver free 16-week programs in machine learning and artificial intelligence.
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How Africa is seizing an AI opportunity
Feature on the African AI ecosystem, covering AI Saturdays Lagos and the broader community of researchers and engineers building AI infrastructure across the continent.
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Tejumade Afonja
Tejumade Afonja is an AI Engineer at InstaDeep and co-founder of AI Saturdays Lagos, a free 16-week AI training community focused on Data Science, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning in Nigeria.
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The Encoder.
Monthly programmes, research, and opportunities updates from The Encoder — a TRI AI Initiative