Bubacarr Bah

Early life and education

Bah was born in The Gambia.[4] He studied mathematics at the University of the Gambia and graduated summa cum laude in 2004.[5][6] He was awarded a Master of Science (MSc) degree from the University of Oxford,[7] where he studied mathematical modelling as a postgraduate student of Wolfson College, Oxford.[8][9] He joined the University of Edinburgh, where his PhD investigated compressed sensing and was supervised by Jared Tanner.[10][2][9] He was a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) student chapter.[11] His work on Gaussian matrices was awarded the SIAM best student paper.[12][13]

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.[8] He was a member of the Laboratory for Information and Inference Systems.[14]

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.[6][15] He developed a matrix for dimensionality reduction that uses bi-Lipschitz embeddings, which can exploit data redundancy.[16][17][18]

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.[15] The position was welcomed by the AIMS community, who believe Africa needs better data science infrastructure.[4] Bah organised the software engineering for Applied Mathematical Sciences workshop, which teaches basic programming and research programming.[19][20] He is responsible for connecting the AIMS in South Africa with central Africa and German universities.[21] As of 2019, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation support five chairs at AIMS centres.[22] He holds a joint position at Stellenbosch University, where he works on information theory and deep learning.[23][24]

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.[25]

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