@tejuafonja.bsky.social
Co-founder of AI Saturdays Lagos focus on AI Teaching, Research and Innovation for Africa 🌍 Doctoral Researcher at CISPA, researching privacy preserving synthetic data generators '25 General Chair at Deep Learning Indaba & '22 Fellow CMU DSSG
Less than ONE week until we meet in Kigali🇷🇼 🤩🙏🏾 #DLI2025 #urunana
Happiest birthday to me 🎉🎂 Alhamdulillah 🤲🏾
Overjoyed that our Paper "The World Wide recipe: A community-centred framework for fine-grained data collection and regional bias operationalisation" received a 🏆🌟Best Paper Honorable Mention Award🌟🏆 at @facct.bsky.social
A huge thanks to our WW Dishes 🌍 community 🎉 and brilliant co-authors.
🌍The World Wide Recipe
Jabez Magomere shows how popular AI tools like DALL-E misrepresent non-Western food with inaccurate, stereotypical visuals. The team co-created a dataset of 765 dishes from 106 countries to show how a different approach could work. 5/8
🔗 doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Grateful for the opportunity to present my research at the recently concluded European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI (ELSA) General Assembly in Brussels. Thank you to the ELSA coordination team for bringing us all together.
Honored to speak at the just-concluded DSA2025 summer school on "How we're building AI expertise in Africa". Longer post on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/tejuma...
My SR internship at GoogleDeepMind has come to an end, and I'm now back in Germany 🇩🇪 to continue my PhD. I'm incredibly thankful for the opportunity. It has been a transformational one 🙏🏾. Big thanks to everyone who made time to hangout while I was in the UK ✨
Today I would like to share a journey that started 18 months ago, and while it is still ongoing, I'd like to celebrate the team's achievement of successfully having our work accepted to #FAccT2025! 🎉
🔗 arxiv.org/pdf/2406.09496
Be Bold.
I had an inspiring time at the
ELSA Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning workshop in Bertinoro, Italy 🇮🇹 where I got to hangout with Privacy folks :) and also had the opportunity to present & discuss our recent work!
Thanks to the organisers, speakers, and attendees.
For more than a year, my colleague Justin Scheck and I looked into why domestic workers from across East Africa, who are promised jobs and a better life in Saudi Arabia, continued to face abuse, starvation and death. Here's what we found.
Happy International Women's Day 🎉 Thank you for transcending societal expectations, pushing the boundaries of that which was deemed possible. Keep Rocking 🤗♀️✊🏾
Ramadan Mubarak ☪️ May this holy month bring forth much needed tranquility into our lives 🙏🏾
🔇🔇🔇 Will you be at the AI Action Summit next week?
➡️ If so, catch our very own Nyalleng Moorosi at the main stage on Tuesday February 11. She will be on a panel discussing sustainable AI systems, bringing calm to the dizzying AI Hype. See the program at www.elysee.fr/en/sommet-po....
💃🏾 I'm excited to share that I have started a Student Researcher Internship position at GoogleDeepMind in London.
(Please check out my LinkedIn post)
🔗https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tejumadeafonja_im-excited-to-share-that-i-have-started-ugcPost-7288197149069099009-EqEM
"We set ourselves up as arbiters of what is good when often our standards of goodness are driven by narrow interests, by what we want" - Robin Wall Kimmerer
I met @davidjmalan.bsky.social today, yay!! More details on my LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/tejuma...
Sis, I'm very lucky to know you 💙
Awww thank you so much 😁 you're wonderful.
Starting a temporary `new' job next week and I'm quite anxious about it. I'll give all the deets when I have settled in. Wish me luck 🤞🏾🍀
What a joy to be one of the custodians of this wonderful community 😍 thank you for 7 years of friendship 💗 Cheers to many more 🥂
Read More: mailchi.mp/f4b6a87b8794...
I made a post on X/Twitter and I'm curious about your answers. 🗳️Cast your vote if you're on the platform please:)
x.com/tejuafonja/s...
2025! Day one.
Happy New Year, everyone.
Wishing you a productive one.
Ahead of the New Year, I wanted to take a moment to wish for everyone, in 2025, to have space to be themselves, time for family, friends and creativity, motivation to pursue their goals, and courage to stand out and speak up! Not to mention I hope for many laughs, and endless joy for all of us.🎉
Next year, I'd like to double-down on my privacy preserving models development & evaluation research skills, and deepen my commitment to making AI education accessible and meaningful across Africa.
What superpower would you like to develop or strengthen ❓
May this holiday season fill you with a lot of joy, laughter and tranquility. Wishing you a very merry Christmas 🎄 and a prosperous New Year 🎆 to everyone celebrating.
“Excluding research failures or limitations in a research paper could pass as research fraud.” —Tejumade Afonja
Article written by Ajayi Oluwaseun link.medium.com/jGIXU15QWOb
Did you miss it? Catch up on YouTube ▶️
www.youtube.com/live/X6IdnKv...
"Thank you to all the first believers. When you start working on impossible mission, you know that you need the first believers." - Nima Salami, CEO OASYS NOW
I'm excited to moderate tomorrow's AI Saturdays Lagos Research cohort panel discussion. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...