2024 Black in AI Workshop

The 8th Black in AI Workshop will be co-located with NeurIPS 2024. The workshop will feature invited talks from prominent researchers and practitioners, a poster session and a startups showcase. We invite all members of the AI community to attend the workshop.

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The 8th Black in AI Workshop will be held co-located with NeurIPS 2024. The workshop will feature invited talks from prominent researchers and practitioners, a poster session, and a startups showcase. We invite all members of the AI community to attend the workshop.

Black in AI 2024 Reviewer/Area Chair Application

Workshop Registration here

Important Information

2024 Accepted Papers

ACCEPTED PAPERS - BAI 2024
Paper_ID Authors Title Area
4 Volviane Saphir MFOGO (African Masters in Machine Intelligence)*; Alain Zemkoho (University of Southampton); Laurent Njilla (Air Force Research Laboratory); Marcellin Nkenlifack (University of Dschang); Charles Kamhoua (DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory) SecureCamPot: An Augmented Reality-Based Honeypot for IoT Camera Security Computer Vision
21 Hellina Hailu Nigatu (UC Berkeley )*; Inioluwa Deborah Raji (UC Berkeley) “I Searched for a Religious Song in Amharic and Got Sexual Content Instead”: Investigating Online Harm in Low-Resourced Languages on YouTube. Computer Vision
23 Seid Hassen Yesuf (University of Gondar)*; Shumet Nigatu (University of Gondar); Mengistu Belete (University of Gondar); Abebe Tegegn (University of Gondar); Kibret Bayuh (University of Gondar) Multimodal Amharic Abusive Language Detection on Social media using Deep Learning Techniques Artificial Intelligence
29 Paulina B. Mensah (SnooCODERED, SnooCODE)*; Nana Seraa Quao (KorleBu Teaching Hospital); Sesinam Dagadu (SnooCODERED, SnooCODE); Project Genie (Project Genie Clinician Evaluation Group) Can Large Language Models Provide Emergency Medical Help Where There Is No Ambulance? A Comparative Study on Large Language Model Understanding of Emergency Medical Scenarios in Resource-Constrained Settings Applications of AI to Health
79 Sakinat O Folorunso (Olabisi Onabanjo university)*; Habeeb-Lahi A. Adebanwo (Olabisi Onabanjo University); Temitope S. Folorunso (Olabisi onabanjo university) Multi-Label Learning Model for Diabetes Disease Comorbidity Machine Learning
94 Jordan Felicien Masakuna (University of Kinshasa)*; Pierre Katalay Kafunda (University of Kinshasa) Impact of Inaccurate Contamination Ratio on Robust Unsupervised Anomaly Detection Machine Learning
110 Rahel Mekonen Tamiru (Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute)*; ABEL M ALEMU (ETHIOPIAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INSTITUTE) Self-Supervised Amharic Text-to-Speech Using Unified Encoder-Decoder Pre-Training Natural Language Processing
115 Rahel Mekonen Tamiru (Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute)*; Mengistu K Negia (Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Bahir Dar University); ABEL M ALEMU (ETHIOPIAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INSTITUTE) Enhancing Amharic Sentence Segmentation with Prosodic Features and Neural Network Models Natural Language Processing
118 Wesagn D Chemma (Addis Ababa University)*; Selameab Demilew (Korenti Craft Technologies) Enhanced Audio Extraction with Deep Neural Network Deep Learning
127 Yamlak Asrat Bogale (Carnegie Mellon University Africa)*; Yohannes Haile (Carnegie Mellon University Africa) Building a Robust Amharic ASR Natural Language Processing
129 Abdulkerim Mohammed Yibre (ICT4D Research Center, Bahir Dar Institute of Technology/Bahir Dar University)* Explainable Machine Learning Approach for Heart Failure Patient Survival Events Prediction Artificial Intelligence
130 Amanuel N Mersha (Addis Ababa Institute Technology)*; Tigabu D Akal (Addis Ababa University); Fitsum Alemu (Addis Ababa University) Can CNNs learn to encode word representation? Natural Language Processing
140 Sakinat O Folorunso (Olabisi Onabanjo university)* ORIN: The Nigerian music benchmark dataset for Music Information Retrieval task Machine Learning
141 Idriss Cabrel Tsewalo Tondji (African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS))*; Mennatullah Siam (Ontario Tech University); Hesham Ali Ahmed (Nile University) Two-stage Joint Transductive and Inductive learning for Nuclei Segmentation Computer Vision
148 Mengistu K Negia (Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Bahir Dar University)*; Rahel Mekonen Tamiru (Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute) Bi-directional Neural machine Translation Natural Language Processing
172 Michael Solomon Desta (Korenti Craft Technologies PLC); Abel A Mekonnen (Korenti Craft Technologies plc); Selameab Demilew (Korenti Craft Technologies)* Thermal Image Object Detection via Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation from RGB Artificial Intelligence
174 Proscovia Nakiranda (AirQo, Makerere University)*; Engineer Bainomugisha (Makerere University); Deo Okure (AirQo, Makerere University) Detection of Stationary Air Pollution Sources using Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning Machine Learning
180 Henok B Ademtew (EthioNLP)*; Mikiyas G Birbo (Maharishi International University) Many-Shot In-Context Learning: A Solution or Just an Enhancement for Low-Resource NLP? Natural Language Processing
181 Abel A Mekonnen (Korenti Craft Technologies plc)*; Yeabsira E Tessema (Korenti Craft Technologies); Michael Solomon Desta (Korenti Craft Technologies PLC) Keystroke Dynamics Authentication using MLP Mixers Deep Learning
188 Tibabwetiza Muhanguzi (Sunbird AI)*; Ernest Mwebaze (Sunbird AI); Engineer Bainomugisha (Sunbird AI) Acoustic Environmental Sensing on the Edge Artificial Intelligence
207 Adejumobi Joshua (Data Science Nigeria)*; Anthony Soronnadi (Data Science Nigeria); Olubayo Adekanmbi (Data Science Nigeria) Evaluating Multilingual Dense Embedding Models and a Sparse Model for Information Retrieval in Yoruba: A Comparative Study Natural Language Processing
2024 Workshop Program (Coming Soon)
2024 Call For Reviewers/Area Chair

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2024 Workshop Registration (Coming Soon)
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2024 Call For Papers & Important Deadlines
Last updated on May 18, 2024

Call For Papers

We invite submissions for the 8th Black in AI Workshop (co-located with NeurIPS 2024), that will be held in person at Vancouver Convention Center Monday Dec 9 through Sunday Dec 15, 2024.

We welcome research papers, position papers, survey papers, vision papers, or papers that inform about neglected/abandoned areas of study where AI could be impactful. Papers may introduce new theories, methodology, applications, or product demonstrations. Papers are published in a non-archival format and may have been published in other venues before or be published in other venues in the future.

Areas of Interest

Submissions may include, but are not limited to, the following topics: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Neuroscience, Deep Learning, Knowledge Reasoning, Machine Learning, Multi-agent Systems, Statistical Reasoning, Computational Theory, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Data Mining and, Robotics. We also welcome papers about applications of AI to Health, Education, Fairness, Ethics and, Transparency in AI, AI & Arts, AI & Politics, etc.

Each submission will fall into one of these 4 tracks:

  • Machine learning Algorithms
  • Systems and Applications
  • Position papers
  • Product demonstrations

Work may be previously published, completed, or ongoing. The workshop will not publish proceedings. We encourage all Black researchers in areas related to AI to submit their work. The work should include at least one Black researcher either as main author or co-author.

Submission Format and Guidelines

All submissions must be in PDF format. Submissions are limited to two content pages, including all figures and tables. An additional page containing only references is allowed.​ Submissions should be in a​ single column​, typeset using ​11-point or larger fonts, and have at least ​a 1-inch margin all around. Submissions that do not follow these guidelines risk being rejected without consideration of their merits. We encourage authors to use one of these templates to prepare their submission:

NeurIPs Registration

To attend the workshop you must register for the NeurIPS conference. We strongly encourage workshop attendees to register for the workshops as early as possible. The registration can be found here.

Important Dates

  • Call for paper submission opens on CMT - May 20th 2024
  • Call for paper submission deadline - June 10th, 2024, 11:59 pm UTC
  • Paper Review Period - June 11th - June 26th, 2024
  • Notification of Call for paper acceptance - June 30th, 2024

Submission will be done on Microsoft Conference Management Toolkit (CMT): HOW-TO: Author Submission

Submit your work using CMT at: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/BAI2024

Submission instructions and important deadlines can be also found here

If you have any questions, contact Organizers at organizers2024@blackinai.org and follow @black_in_ai to keep updated.

2024 Black in AI Organizers

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Mission and Vision

We aim to shift the power dynamics across the AI Ecosystem to help visionaries, creators, thought leaders and builders maximize the multifaceted future of artificial intelligence. We envision a barrier-free field that empowers our community to contribute and accelerate their best, most brilliant work for themselves, fellow practitioners, and their global ecosystems.