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Dec 22

Students develop agriculture platform for Thomson Reuters

Three MSIT students spent their summers developing a data analytics pilot plan that will eventually be implemented in other African countries.

Dec 12

Students help produce renewable and cheap energy

Four MasterCard Foundation (MCF) scholars from Carnegie Mellon University Africa travelled to the Bugesera District to participate in community work around biogas plant construction.

Dec 05

Mastercard Foundation Scholars join fellow students to give back to local communities

CMU-Africa students get into the community spirit and help dig a drain for residents in Kimihurura, a neighborhood in Kigali.

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Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Edward Ajayi (MS EAI '26) received Best Paper Award

Edward Ajayi (MS EAI '26) received Best Paper Award at the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence for the research "A Machine Learning Approach for Detection of Mental Health Conditions and Cyberbullying from Social Media."

CMU-Africa FINIA researchers publish new paper in Science Direct

CMU-Africa's Edith Luhanga, along with CMU adjunct faculty Ganesh Mani, had a new paper entitled "Do individual and country-level factors cushion the impact of COVID-19 financial worry on digital financial inclusion in Africa?" recently published in Science Direct. The paper is part of their project entitled Financial Inclusion via Novel Intelligence and Alternative Data (or FINIA) and discusses the aftereffects of COVID-19 and digital financial inclusion in Africa.

CMU-Africa Community Research Posters Presentation

CMU-Africa students recently held a poster session to present their community research projects as part of a course with CMU-Africa instructor Kwan Lee.

Next Billion

CMU-Africa mentioned in Next Billion

Conrad Tucker and CMU-Africa were mentioned in Next Billion about the recent Africa HealthTech Summit.

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