- Dr. Girmaw Abebe Tadesse is a Principal Research Scientist and Manager at Microsoft's AI for Good Research Lab, where he leads the Africa team in developing AI solutions for agriculture, healthcare, biodiversity, and more. He collaborates with partners including the Kenya Space Agency, Amref Health Africa, Planet, CGIAR, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Stanford University, and Harvard University. He holds over 20 patents and has published in top journals such as Nature.
- Girmaw is an active program committee member and speaker at global AI conferences, including ICLR 2023 (Kigali), ICLR 2024 (Vienna), IJCAI 2024 (Jeju), and ICCV 2024 (Paris). He previously worked as a Staff Research Scientist at IBM Research Africa and as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford. Girmaw earned his PhD from Queen Mary University of London through the Erasmus Mundus Double Doctorate Program, focusing on computer vision and machine learning algorithms.
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