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Planetary Prediction Engine: Autonomous Geospatial Prediction via Intelligent Data Selection and Foundation Model Embeddings
Evelyn Ma, Rama Kumar Pasumarthi, Kishwar Shafin +26
Addressing critical global challenges, from food security and disaster risk to disease outbreaks and socio-economic vulnerability, demands high-fidelity geospatial modeling. Howeve…
WAXAL: A Large-Scale Multilingual African Language Speech Corpus
Abdoulaye Diack, Perry Nelson, Kwaku Agbesi +40
The advancement of speech technology has predominantly favored high-resource languages, creating a significant digital divide for speakers of most Sub-Saharan African languages. To…
A Collaborative Approach to the Analysis of the COVID-19 Response in Africa
Sharon Okwako, Irene Wanyana, Alice Namale +6
The COVID-19 crisis has emphasized the need for scientific methods such as machine learning to speed up the discovery of solutions to the pandemic. Harnessing machine learning tech…
Surrogate Ensemble Forecasting for Dynamic Climate Impact Models
Julian Kuehnert, Deborah McGlynn, Sekou L. Remy +2
As acute climate change impacts weather and climate variability, there is increased demand for robust climate impact model predictions from which forecasts of the impacts can be de…
Sparsity-based Feature Selection for Anomalous Subgroup Discovery
Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, William Ogallo, Catherine Wanjiru +5
Anomalous pattern detection aims to identify instances where deviation from normalcy is evident, and is widely applicable across domains. Multiple anomalous detection techniques ha…
Post-discovery Analysis of Anomalous Subsets
Isaiah Onando Mulang', William Ogallo, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse +1
Analyzing the behaviour of a population in response to disease and interventions is critical to unearth variability in healthcare as well as understand sub-populations that require…
Overcoming Digital Gravity when using AI in Public Health Decisions
Sekou L Remy, Aisha Walcott-Bryant, Nelson K Bore +2
In popular usage, Data Gravity refers to the ability of a body of data to attract applications, services and other data. In this work we introduce a broader concept, "Digital Gravi…
Automated Supervised Feature Selection for Differentiated Patterns of Care
Catherine Wanjiru, William Ogallo, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse +3
An automated feature selection pipeline was developed using several state-of-the-art feature selection techniques to select optimal features for Differentiating Patterns of Care (D…
WNTRAC: AI Assisted Tracking of Non-pharmaceutical Interventions Implemented Worldwide for COVID-19
Parthasarathy Suryanarayanan, Ching-Huei Tsou, Ananya Poddar +23
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic has transformed almost every facet of human society throughout the world. Against an emerging, highly transmissible disease…
Novel Exploration Techniques (NETs) for Malaria Policy Interventions
Oliver Bent, Sekou L. Remy, Stephen Roberts +1
The task of decision-making under uncertainty is daunting, especially for problems which have significant complexity. Healthcare policy makers across the globe are facing problems…
CommuniSense: Crowdsourcing Road Hazards in Nairobi
Darshan Santani, Jidraph Njuguna, Tierra Bills +4
Nairobi is one of the fastest growing metropolitan cities and a major business and technology powerhouse in Africa. However, Nairobi currently lacks monitoring technologies to obta…