Moustapha Cisse

CTL-E-1079 · Institution · other · 2010s–present

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Senegalese computer scientist; founded Google's first AI research center in Africa (Accra, 2018), founded the African Master of Machine Intelligence, and co-founded the Deep Learning Indaba; TIME100 AI 2026.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from TECH-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-TECH-001:TECH-E-076; source research type(s): None.

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https://www.urbangeekz.com/2026/09/meet-the-5-black-innovators-named-to-the-time100-ai-list/

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