Google Brain AI Resident.

Accra, Ghana
Joined August 2013
Our recent work 🎉
I'm very excited to see this work from @GoogleAI's Ghana Research Center, on using satellite imagery to detect 516M buildings across 19.4M km^2 (64% of African continent). See the blog post and the new Open Buildings dataset. ai.googleblog.com/2021/07/ma…
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Yasser Salah Eddine Bouchareb⁦ 🇩🇿⁩ retweeted
👏PhD Opportunity😎 🙊Deep learning and Bioacoustics 🐦🤖🐧 Please see topic 3 on this page: quantumleapafrica.org/course… Application details here: quantumleapafrica.org/course… Deadline: 31st March 2023 🌞Join us in Cape Town! 🏖️ Please RT and share the ❤️
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Yasser Salah Eddine Bouchareb⁦ 🇩🇿⁩ retweeted
🇬🇭📣🇬🇭📣🇬🇭📣 Applications for the next DLI are now open! We encourage applications from all members of the African machine learning community, in all career stages, whether you are in industry or academia. Apply by 6th March 2023: deeplearningindaba.com/2023/…. Tag your friends ‼️
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Really excited to see this work from our Google AI Africa center. Using AI to map Africa’s buildings @google blog.google/around-the-globe…
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Yasser Salah Eddine Bouchareb⁦ 🇩🇿⁩ retweeted
Today we are releasing the Open Buildings Dataset, a new open-source dataset containing the locations and footprints of >500M buildings with coverage across Africa, which can support numerous scientific and humanitarian applications. Read more at goo.gle/3751HVR
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Yasser Salah Eddine Bouchareb⁦ 🇩🇿⁩ retweeted
Open Phd positions (also with me) at Volkswagen's machine learning research lab in Munich. Work in the melting pot of deep learning, variational inference, computer vision, robotics and optimal control. argmax.ai/open-positions/doc…
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Yasser Salah Eddine Bouchareb⁦ 🇩🇿⁩ retweeted
Applications are is now open for Fully-funded PhD positions in data science at The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences @AIMS_Next 🎉🌍 quantumleapafrica.org/course…… Application deadline: June 1 Start date: October 2021 Please share widely. 🥳
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Yasser Salah Eddine Bouchareb⁦ 🇩🇿⁩ retweeted
Don't miss out on our upcoming workshop happening on Dec 12, 2020. All registered attendees of @NeurIPSConf can participate. Register: nips.cc/Conferences/2020 Apply for financial assistance by Nov 27, 2020: nips.cc/Surveys/49 #MachineLearning #development #neurips2020
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Yasser Salah Eddine Bouchareb⁦ 🇩🇿⁩ retweeted
Don't wait to register for fall 2021! 👉mila.quebec/en/cours/admissi…
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Yasser Salah Eddine Bouchareb⁦ 🇩🇿⁩ retweeted
Two PhD positions here at ETH Zurich: Analyze and improve green financial policies with the help of NLP. #ML for #SustainableFinance @istp_eth @ETH_en @ClimateChangeAI @ETH_EPG
What about a PhD in Climate Finance at @ETH_en Zurich? I’m recruiting for @ERC_Research project GREENFIN: Effective Green Financial Policies for the Low-Carbon Transition. Spread the word! @WRIFinance @SwissSustFin @susfinalliance @NGFS_ @transitionsnest jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_e…
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Yasser Salah Eddine Bouchareb⁦ 🇩🇿⁩ retweeted
And we're extremely honoured and excited to be invited to talk at WMT20 🌱🌌 Over 15 Masakhane participants are busy planning, recording & editing our talk 💪🤩 Be prepared for a keynote like no other We can't wait to share our thoughts and learnings with the WMT community 🌍💕
Replying to @bazril
We are very excited to have the invited talk at WMT20 delivered by @MasakhaneNLP , on '"Low-resourcedness" Beyond Data' . This will be followed by a panel discussion on MT for under-resourced languages. #wmt20
Yasser Salah Eddine Bouchareb⁦ 🇩🇿⁩ retweeted
Apply for the PhD and Postdoc positions in Mathematics at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in South Africa. Deadline: 15th November. daad.org.za/en/2020/10/13/ph… @AIMS_Next
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Yasser Salah Eddine Bouchareb⁦ 🇩🇿⁩ retweeted
I was asked to give a talk about my PhD workflow for the new students in our lab. So I put together a few slides about my approach to time management, preparing for weekly progress meetings and staying on top of the literature. The slides are available at github.com/wuningxi/Talks/bl…
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Well deserved Detective 💪
Featured as "The Covid data detective" brainstormmag.co.za/features… This is very much a group project and documents work for the covid19za and covid19africa projects. Data Repo: github.com/dsfsi/covid19za [Still very much active, you can volunteer to update your province] #COVID19SA
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Yasser Salah Eddine Bouchareb⁦ 🇩🇿⁩ retweeted
PhD applications are open at @GatsbyUCL ! Fully funded, regardless of nationality. Apply here: ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/study-and-w… Deadline is November 15th
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Yasser Salah Eddine Bouchareb⁦ 🇩🇿⁩ retweeted
Check out Performer, a generalized attention framework based on the Transformer architecture, which implements the novel FAVOR+ algorithm to provide linearly scalable, low-variance and unbiased estimation of attention mechanisms. Read more at goo.gle/3mhiCu4
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Yasser Salah Eddine Bouchareb⁦ 🇩🇿⁩ retweeted
⚠I am recruiting for a PhD position in ML for NLP⚠ Apply by Nov 19 here: ivi.uva.nl/shared/uva/en/vac… Extra context on my website: vene.ro/jobs.html. DM or email if you have any questions.
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Yasser Salah Eddine Bouchareb⁦ 🇩🇿⁩ retweeted
94 PhD, Postdoctoral and Faculty Positions at ETH Zurich, Switzerland scholaridea.com/2020/10/12/9…
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Yasser Salah Eddine Bouchareb⁦ 🇩🇿⁩ retweeted
The PhD application portal for ELLIS (the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems) is now open! ellis.eu/de/news/ellis-phd-p… Deadline for applications is December 1st.
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Yasser Salah Eddine Bouchareb⁦ 🇩🇿⁩ retweeted
Are you a PhD student or an independent researcher who is working on creating a dataset? @scale_ai will sponsor promising dataset creation projects that can widely benefit a community. Please DM me for details.
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