About Me
I am a lecturer in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Academic City University College, Accra Ghana and I hold a BSc degree in Financial Mathematics and a Master’s degree in Mathematical Science with a specialization in Big Data and Financial Mathematics. I am rounding up my second masters degree with the prestigious Africa Masters in Machine Intelligence sponsored by Google and Facebook. I am the co-founder of Women Promoting Science to the younger Generation (WPSYG) and hail from the Northern part of Ghana which happens to be a region that remains underprivileged when it comes to women in STEM and ICT in Ghana. However, I have risen above the odds to gain a Master’s in mathematics and have been engaged in several activities that seeks to promote more women in STEM. Due to my active participation and promotion of women in STEM, I was voted among the 20 Most influential people in Northern Ghana, STEM Category. Additionally, I am a co-organizer of Women in Machine Learning and Data Science Accra chapter. I have also been a recipient of several awards and grants including the Mastercard Foundation scholars grant, Alumnode grant from Germany and MIT Prize, and google awards during Indaba in Kenya and Indabax Ghana respectively. I envision a future where people will be assessed based on their skill set rather than their gender.
Research Interests
My research interests include but not limited to:
- Machine Learning with applications to:
- Credit Scoring
- Financial Inclusion
- Financial Derivatives
- Computer Vision
- Natural Language Processing
Talks and Presentations
- Building a career in AI and Machine Learning: Hacklab Founders Stories, Accra, Ghana.
- Machine Learning Summer School: Machine Learning in pricing options Germany.
- Pyladies Night: Is AI going to do us more harm than good?, Accra, Ghana.
- Symposium Talk Day 4: Deep Learning Indaba, Nairobi, Kenya.
- Mentor Tell my story: National Science and Mathemaics Quiz, Accra, Ghana.
- Heidelberg Laureate Forum Interview: 6th HLF, Heidelberg, Germany.
News
- [Sep 2020] I joined Academic City University College as a lecturer in Data Science and AI, Accra Ghana
- [Jun 2020] I was accepted for the DLRL Summer School 2020 hosted by CIFAR and Mila
- [Jun 2020] I was accepted for the Machine Learning Summer Schools hosted by Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany
Contacts
- Phone: (+233) 20 074 5006 (Ghana)
- Email: deborah.kanubala@acity.edu.gh