
Shakir Mohamed
@shakir_za
ML with Social Purpose. @[email protected] | Research Scientist @DeepMind | Strengthening African ML @DeepIndaba. He/Him. South African 🇿🇦🏳️🌈🌍
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It's Ai Day! Together with our colleagues at BioNTech SE we will be providing an update on our joint work innovating in AI and deploying it in BioNTech's immunotherapy pipeline. Join us for the livestream at 9am EST/2pm UK! To register: bit.ly/3TMPvBS




I’m honoured to be one of the ACM FAccT Programme Chairs this year, alongside the amazing Jenn Wortman Vaughan Sina Fazelpour Talia Gillis 🤩 and we’ve been hard at work already. The CFP is coming soon, but the key dates everyone are now set. Happy paper planning 🚀


The importance of language representation in NLP cannot be overstated. This survey paper by the Kenya NLP group highlights the challenges and opportunities in Kenyan NLP. Give it a read and send any reviews! Link: arxiv.org/abs/2410.09948 Deep Learning Indaba𝕏 Kenya #NLP #KenyaNLP

Fun fact: The idea for this paper was conceptualised at Deep Learning Indaba in Ghana. Almost all authors attended DLI and decided to craft a roadmap for NLP research in Kenya. This is the first step of many.


In our new paper co-authored by Jackie Kay and Shakir Mohamed, we investigate how generative AI can undermine the integrity of collective knowledge & propose strategies for resistance and system design: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AIES… AI, Ethics, and Society Conference (AIES) #aies2024


Are you interested in exploring questions at the ethical frontier of AI research? If so, then take a look at this new opening in the humanity, ethics and alignment research team: boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/jobs/… HEART conducts interdisciplinary research to advance safe & beneficial AI.



LearnLM - our work on AI in Education - is a finalist in this year's anthemawards which honors mission-driven social impact work. We'd love your vote before the closing date on Oct 31 at 11:59pm PT in these 2 categories: cl.s7.exct.net/?qs=ec7e6ec597… cl.s7.exct.net/?qs=ec7e6ec597…

Excited to share our work on ‘Collaboration between clinicians and vision–language models in radiology report generation’, published today Nature Medicine (1/N). nature.com/articles/s4159…




Rwanda here we go ! 🇷🇼 We are excited to announce that the Deep Learning Indaba 2025 annual event will be back for its 7th edition taking place in Kigali, Rwanda from the 17th to 22nd of August, 2025 at University of Rwanda. 🌍✨ As always, our team is hard at work crafting our amazing
