Dr Shakir Mohamed

Shakir Mohamed works on technical and sociotechnical questions in AI research and development, working on problems in foundational AI, applied problems in healthcare, education and environment, and participation and responsibility. Shakir is a Director for Research at Google DeepMind in London, an Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, and a Honorary Professor of University College London. Shakir is also a founder and trustee of the Deep Learning Indaba, a grassroots charity whose work is to build pan-African capacity and leadership in AI. Shakir is included in the TIME 100 most influential people in AI. He serves on several boards, including the oversight board of the Ada Lovelace Institute, the Board of Directors for some of the major conferences in the field of machine learning and AI (ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS), and as the Chair of the international scientific advisory committee for the pan-Canadian AI strategy. Shakir is from South Africa, he completed a postdoc at the University of British Columbia, received his PhD from St John's College in the University of Cambridge, and received his masters and undergraduate degrees in Electrical and Information engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.