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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Exploring WeatherNext-2 Earth Engine Data Catalog
Have you ever heard of the Somali Jet? (Wait for it) Until a few days ago, I hadn’t. I was exploring WeatherNext-2—an experimental AI weather forecasting model—when I stumbled upon something striking along the coast of East Africa. The visualization below shows global wind power potential at 100 meters (typical wind turbine height) forecasted by…
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Do you recognize these cities? 🌍
I’ve been experimenting with a fun way to visualize urban density by mixing the Google Open Buildings dataset with AlphaEarth embeddings.I’m using unsupervised clustering on top of AlphaEarth’s embeddings. Instead of coloring pixels for each area, I’ve assigned the cluster color to the building polygons themselves.The result is an interesting “fingerprint” of these cities. The…
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Melissa path predictions by GDM WeatherLab
This was sobering forecast for 𝐇𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐚 on Google DeepMind’s experimental Weather Lab. (Seen on Sunday 26th, 2025) The AI model’s ensemble predicted with high confidence the devastating track: CAT 4 landfall in 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐜𝐚 (around Tuesday, Oct 28th) [Turned out it was a CAT 5], followed by a CAT 3 impact on Cuba (Wednesday, Oct…