Who We Are?
Our Mission
Our mission is to create an integrated platform that allows all Africans to access state-of-the-art technologies in their native languages.
Our vision
Our vision is to create a future where all Africans, regardless of language(s) they speak have full access to the produce of Artificial Intelligence.
Our fall 2021 goal
Our goal for the Fall of 2021 is to fully integrate a Machine Translation system for Asante Twi to English with a BLEU score of 0.8 and a well performing conversational chatbot into our beta tested mobile application before January 1, 2021.
Extraordinary Experiences
We are almost always building exciting and novel solutions backed by a sense of purpose and societal needs.
Consider joining our team to be part of this exciting journey.
Our Core Values
At AI4AFRIKA@UW, we believe in people and community. We are what we are because of all we all are. Here are a few of our core values:
- Respect
- Leadership
- Community
teams
Artificial Intelligence Team
Zhaoyi Zhang
UW Madison
Sheriff Issaka
UW Madison
Keyi Wang
UW Madison
Data Team
T. Leah Spencer
Florida
Sadick A. Mumin
Northwestern University
Rukaiya Abdallah
Smith College
James Sutanto
UW Madison
Ann Kerr
UW Madison
Nicte A. Jimenez
UW Madison
Yinka Ajibola
UW Madison
Belise K. Teta
UW Madison
Rohan Ramachandran
UW Madison
Frontend Team
Jason Sutanto
UW Madison
Mina Kim
UW Madison
Zhengzhi Chen
UW Madison
Swathi Annamaneni
UW Madison
Siyu Huang
UW Madison
Project Advisors
Reginold Royston, PhD
UW Madison
S. Ama Wray, PhD
UC Irvine
Steven Wangen, PhD
UW Madison
Steve Goldstein, PhD
UW Madison
Shivaram Venkataraman, PhD
UW Madison
Abe E. Megahed
UW Madison
Whitney Sweeney, PhD
UW Madison
Aleia McCord, PhD
UW Madison
Emilie Songolo
UW Madison
Brian Yandell, PhD
UW Madison
Corey Jackson, PhD
UW Madison
Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, PhD
UW Madison
Patrick Jackson, PhD
UW Madison
Ramya Vinayak, PhD
UW Madison