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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