User:Adjoajo/Cisse

Moustapha Cisse is a research scientists, professor, from Senegal. He is the founder and director of the African Masters of Machine Intelligence. Cisse is the Head of the Google AI in Accra, Ghana.

Early life and education
​Cisse was born and raised in Senegal. He studied mathematics and physics at University Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Cisse received a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University Gaston Berger in Senegal in 2007. In 2008 he received a Masters degree in Software Engineering also from the University Gaston Berger. Ph.D., Computer Science, He received a PhD in computer science from the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France.

Career and research
Cisse is the Director of Google’s Artificial Intelligence Center in Accra, Ghana. Which is the first Artificial Intelligence (AI) lab in Africa. He is the founder and director of the African Masters of Machine Intelligence. He is also a co-founder of Black in AI.

Publications
February 25, 2009; A prion protein connection authors - Moustapha Cisse & Lennart Mucke.

Awards
Cisse is a 2018, Quartz Africa Innovators awardee.

Affiliations

 * Data Science in Africa
 * Co-founder of Black in AI
 * Deep Learning Indaba

Quotes
“AI is a critical tool used today and used to accelerate all sorts of sciences in physics, chemistry and engineering,” said Dr. Cissé, as reported by Business Insider South Africa. “But most of the people working and advancing the science and developing it in the field are based mostly in Western countries. It’s important that such an important field [can address] a diversity of the problems that the world faces today, and Africa is accurately represented.” Moustapha Cisse