Bio
Abdoulaye Diack is a Program Manager at Google Research Africa with over 20 years of experience spanning AI/ML research, mobile financial services, and big data solutions.
Current Focus: Abdoulaye currently drives new initiatives in Applied AI, translating emerging research into practical solutions for global challenges.
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Previous Impact: Abdoulaye lead the Open Buildings project, a pioneering initiative that used satellite imagery to map over 1.8 billion buildings across the Global South—creating a critical resource now used worldwide for urban planning and disaster response.
Additionally, Abdoulaye played a foundational role in growing the region’s research talent pool by leading the Google AI Residency. He successfully managed cohorts of residents who have since transitioned into impactful roles across the global AI landscape.
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Heat Magnets Everywhere
A new dataset of 31 million rooftops finds nearly all of them absorb most of the sun that hits them — on every continent. More than 4,500 years ago, the Pyramids of Giza didn’t have the sandy color they do today. They were sheathed in polished white Tura limestone, bright enough to be seen for…
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PyCon Togo : Liste de Liens
Merci d’avoir assisté à ma présentation “De scripts Python à l’IA mondiale” à la PyCon Togo ! Comme promis, voici la liste des ressources, articles et projets open-source que j’ai mentionnés lors de mon intervention : Formations & Compétences Google Open Buildings Projet Waxal (Technologies vocales africaines) Weather Next (Prévisions Météorologiques) Uboreshaji Modeli (Optimisation de Modèles d’IA)
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Building an Event-Driven Volcanic Eruption Detector with Google Earth Engine & Telegram
Active volcanoes are some of the most dynamic features on Earth, yet monitoring them on the ground is expensive and dangerous. I’m not very familiar with professional satellite observation platforms, but I imagine they are resource-intensive and require manual checking. So I asked myself: could I build a cheap, agentic detection system that runs on…