Darlington Ahiale Akogo

Global Shaper, Ho Hub

Darlington Ahiale Akogo is the Founder, C.E.O and Director of Artificial Intelligence at minoHealth (https://www.minohealth.com), an Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Healthcare system for Medical Diagnostics and Evidence-based Healthcare. He's also an Advisory Board Member and Ambassador to West Africa at AI Expo Africa, the largest business focused AI community in Africa. Darlington Ahiale Akogo also heads minoHealth AI Labs where they research and apply Artificial Intelligence to fields like Biotechnology, Neuroscience, Optometry, Epidemiology, Dietetics/Nutrition and Agriculture. And with Gudra AI Studio, they explore Artificial Intelligence applied to general domains like Energy, Art, Education and Linguistics. He's also the Founder and Director of Runmila AI Institute (https://runmilainstitute.com) where they training Africans in Artificial Intelligence (Deep Learning & Machine Learning) and its Development.
He's a member of United Nations ITU and World Health Organization's Focus Group on 'Artificial Intelligence for Health' (AI4H), and a member of MIT Tech Review Global Panel.

Darlington Ahiale Akogo is also an Artificial Intelligence advocate, communicator and mentor. He believes Artificial Intelligence can solve a lot of problems plaguing Africa and being proactive is necessary in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and the 4th Industrial Revolution. So Darlington advocates, teaches and communicates Artificial Intelligence through seminars, lectures, interviews, writings and mentorships. He was a research presenter at NeurIPS 2018, the largest Conference on Artificial Intelligence in the World. And he was one of the speakers at the ​AI Expo Africa 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa and Next Einstein Forum’s ​Africa Science Week​. He was also a participant in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Global Community ​BioSummit 2018. His research paper ‘ScaffoldNet: Detecting and Classifying Biomedical Polymer-Based Scaffolds via a Convolutional Neural Network’ has been accepted by the ​Future of Information and Communications Conference​, which is sponsored by IEEE and featured in the book, ‘​​Advances in Information and Communication​’ (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-12385-7). Alongside great minds including Yoshua Bengio, who's celebrated as one of the Fathers of Deep Learning, Darlington is featured in and wrote for the book, "​Artificial Intelligence Simplified​: 99 Use Cases And Expert Thoughts For Starters" which was put together by Data Science Nigeria. He also writes reports and essays for ​Synapse Magazine - ‘The Voice of African Artificial Intelligence & Data Science’ by AI Media.

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