Bubacarr Bah

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Bubacarr Bah
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Bubacarr Bah is a Gambian mathematician. He is (as at July 2024) Associate Professor and Head of Data Science at the MRC Unit based at Banjul, The Gambia. [3] (Note that the unit is run by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - but was previously managed by the Medical Research Council (United Kingdom). See COVID-19 pandemic in the Gambia). He was previously (2016 - 2022) the chair of Data Science at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS). [4] [1] He has recently been assistant professor at Stellenbosch University.

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Early life and education

Bah was born in The Gambia. [5] He studied mathematics at the University of the Gambia and graduated summa cum laude in 2004. [6] [7] He was awarded a Master of Science (MSc) degree from the University of Oxford, [8] where he studied mathematical modelling as a postgraduate student of Wolfson College, Oxford. [9] [10] He joined the University of Edinburgh, where his PhD investigated compressed sensing and was supervised by Jared Tanner  [ Wikidata ]. [11] [2] [10] He was a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) student chapter. [12] His work on Gaussian matrices was awarded the SIAM best student paper. [13] [14]

Research and career

Between 2012 and 2014 Bah was a postdoctoral researcher at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, where he continued his investigations into compressed sensing. [9] He was a member of the Laboratory for Information and Inference Systems. [15]

In 2014 Bah joined the University of Texas at Austin, where he worked on signal processing, machine learning and sampling strategies in high-dimensional data. [7] [16] He developed a matrix for dimensionality reduction that uses bi-Lipschitz embeddings, which can exploit data redundancy. [17] [18] [19]

In 2016 Bah was appointed the German Chair in Mathematics at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), which is supported by the Humboldt Foundation. [16] The position was welcomed by the AIMS community, who believe Africa needs better data science infrastructure. [5] Bah organised the software engineering for Applied Mathematical Sciences workshop, which teaches basic programming and research programming. [20] [21] He is responsible for connecting the AIMS in South Africa with central Africa and German universities. [22] As of 2019, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation support five chairs at AIMS centres. [23] He holds a joint position at Stellenbosch University, where he works on information theory and deep learning. [24] [25]

In March 2019 Bah was appointed to the Google advanced technology external advisory council, a collection of experts who will consider the artificial intelligence (AI) principles of Google. [26] Google disbanded ATEAC on April 4 2019 following criticism by Google employees about another member, Kay Coles James. [27]

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References

  1. 1 2 Bubacarr Bah publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. 1 2 Bubacarr Bah at the Mathematics Genealogy Project OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  3. ↑ "Bubacarr Bah LinkedIn page" . Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  4. ↑ Bubacarr Bah's ORCID   0000-0003-3318-6668
  5. 1 2 "The AIMS network welcomes another Research Chair under the German Research Chair programme at AIMS". aims.ac.za. AIMS South Africa. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  6. ↑ "Bubacarr Bah". deeplearningindaba.com. Deep Learning Indaba . Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  7. 1 2 "Bubacarr Bah – LIONS". lions.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  8. ↑ Bah, Bubacarr (2008). Diffusion Maps: Analysis and Applications. ora.ox.ac.uk (MSc thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC   430338759. Lock-green.svg
  9. 1 2 "Dr Bubacarr Bah | AIMS South Africa" . Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  10. 1 2 Tanner, Jared (2018). "Mathematics Institute - Jared Tanner - Students & Postdocs". people.maths.ox.ac.uk. University of Oxford. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  11. ↑ Bah, Bubacarr (2012). Restricted isometry constants in compressed sensing (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/7642. OCLC   862754793. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.578348. Lock-green.svg
  12. ↑ "Student chapter breakfast" (PDF). siam.org. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  13. ↑ Bah, B.; Tanner, J. (2010). "Improved Bounds on Restricted Isometry Constants for Gaussian Matrices". SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications. 31 (5): 2882–2898. arXiv: 1003.3299 . doi:10.1137/100788884. ISSN   0895-4798. S2CID   5859468.
  14. ↑ "Mathematics People" (PDF). ams.org. American Mathematical Society . Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  15. ↑ "Dr Bubacarr Bah elected Humbolt [sic] Chair Faculty at AIMS South Africa". actu.epfl.ch. 2016-01-09.
  16. 1 2 "Bubacarr Bah Has Been Awarded the Prestigious German Chair in Mathematics | AIMS". nexteinstein.org. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  17. ↑ "Computational Math Seminar: Bubacarr Bah". colorado.edu. 2015-10-06. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  18. ↑ "Visiting delegation from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | AIMS Cameroon - NextEinstein Initiative". aims-cameroon.org. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  19. ↑ Bah, Bubacarr; Sadeghian, Ali; Cevher, Volkan (2013). "Energy-aware adaptive bi-Lipschitz embeddings". arXiv: 1307.3457 .{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  20. ↑ "SEAMS Workshop v5 ~ TBD 2019!". seams-workshop.gitlab.io. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  21. ↑ "AIMS South Africa : Data Science Workshop organised by Dr Bubacarr Bah, the German Research Chair of Mathematics | AIMS". nexteinstein.org. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  22. ↑ "Humboldt Foundation strengthens university education and research in mathematics in Africa". humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  23. ↑ "New research chair appointed in Africa". humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  24. ↑ "SANUM - South African Numerical and Applied Mathematics". sanum.github.io. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  25. ↑ "Bubacarr Bah | Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences". newton.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  26. ↑ "An external advisory council to help advance the responsible development of AI". blog.google. 2019-03-26. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  27. ↑ "Google updated news release" . Retrieved 9 July 2024.
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