Scientific Program Committee – Page 2

April 30, 2019

Barry Green

Former Professor of Mathematics, Stellenbosch University Former Head of Department, Mathematics, Stellenbosch University Member of the Board, Pan-African Centre of Mathematics Impressive publications record PhD in Mathematics, University of Cape Town […]

Prof. Awa Niang

Director of Higher Institute of Vocational Education of Richard-Toll/(Senegal). Professor in Electronics Led the Department of Mechanical Engeniering of Polytechnical School (ESP) of the University of Dakar. Conducts research in machine Learning in collaboration with various research laboratories in Senegal and France and has been responsible for international research programs. […]

Simeon Ehui

He was the manager of the Food and Agriculture Global Practice for Africa (2015-2017) and South Asia (2009-2015) while based in Pakistan. Served as Lead Economist and Sector Leader for the Sustainable Development Network in Nigeria covering a variety of issues such as agriculture, social, environment, transport, and energy. Before joining the World Bank, […]

Kommy Weldemariam

He is responsible for the scientific and technical directions and execution of research and development projects. He also leads the execution of hiring top-notch scientists and engineers while fostering an innovation ecosystem. As a research scientist, Dr. Weldemariam worked on various areas and industries with responsibilities spanning research, development, and technology transfer on Data, Artificial […]

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

Former Director, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS) from 1994 till 2013. A mathematician by training, specialized in differential geometry and mathematical aspects of theoretical physics Fellow of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Held a Professor position at École polytechnique from 1986 to 2012 President of the Société Mathématique de France, 1990 […]

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April 30, 2019

Elsie Effah Kaufmann

BSE, MSE and PhD in Bioengineering, all from the University of Pennsylvania Dr. Effah Kaufmann’s teaching and research focus on Application of Biomedical Engineering concepts in the Ghanaian context Recipient University of Ghana’s Best Teacher Award for the Sciences in 2009 She has been Quiz Mistress of the Ghana National Science & Mathematics Quiz TV […]

Yebabel Fantaye

His research is in applying artificial intelligence and advanced statistical methods to cosmological data sets in order to understand the statistical nature of the universe and to satellite images of the Earth in order to find alternative ways to monitoring African development progress. Dr. Fantaye is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future […]

Masaaki Niwa

He has been engaged in science and technology of the gate dielectric of advanced CMOSFET for 30 years at Matsushita Electric Industrial (current PanasonicCorp.) He paved the way for Panasonic to joint research on high-k/metal gate with IMEC (Belgium) in 2002, which resulted in the world first commercial production of 32nm-core CMOS with high-k/metal gate in 2010. Meanwhile, he served as a visiting professor at Katholieke Universiteit […]