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Bubacarr Bah is a Gambian mathematician and chair of Data Science at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS). ^{[3] [1]} He is an assistant professor at Stellenbosch University and a member of the Google advanced technology external advisory council.^{[ citation needed]}

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 [ Wikidata]. ^{[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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