Log inSign up
Shakir Mohamed
4,624 posts
Image
user avatar
Shakir Mohamed
@shakir_za
ML with Social Purpose. @[email protected] | Research Scientist @DeepMind | Strengthening African ML @DeepIndaba. He/Him. South African 🇿🇦🏳️‍🌈🌍
London
shakirm.com
Joined January 2012
1,236
Following
44.7K
Followers
  • Pinned
    user avatar
    Shakir Mohamed
    @shakir_za
    Sep 15, 2023
    Very honoured to be included in this year’s #Time100AI list of influential people in AI🎈And more so the humbling messages from so many people ❤️. The work on directing AI to social purpose remains, and the ownership and inclusion of global communities🌍 time.com/collection/tim…
    39K
  • user avatar
    Shakir Mohamed
    @shakir_za
    Dec 22, 2023
    🥳 Our work on machine learning for medium range weather predictions is this week’s cover of Science🎄This is a fun area to work in and lots more scope for us as a field to support a range of decision-making needs. 🌍
    user avatar
    Science Magazine
    @ScienceMagazine
    Dec 21, 2023
    Trained on four decades of historical data, #GraphCast from @GoogleDeepMind is an #AI model that predicts global weather with greater speed and accuracy compared with traditional approaches. Learn more in Science's last issue of 2023: scim.ag/5hf
    Image
    42K
  • user avatar
    Shakir Mohamed
    @shakir_za
    Jun 26, 2019
    Exited to share our new paper: 'Monte Carlo Gradient Estimation in Machine Learning', with @ElaClaudia @mfigurnov @AndriyMnih. It reviews of all the things we know about computing gradients of probabilistic functions. arxiv.org/abs/1906.10652 🐾Thread👇🏾
    Image
  • user avatar
    Shakir Mohamed
    @shakir_za
    Jul 8, 2020
    Excited to be giving an introduction to Bayesian Machine Learning tomorrow @MLSS_Tuebingen 🥳. Going attempt to cover: topics in Bayesian theory; tricks for manipulating probabilities; topics in ethics and social impact; raising interest in Bayesian thinking. 🎲#virtual #MLSS2020
    Image
  • user avatar
    Shakir Mohamed
    @shakir_za
    Jul 9, 2020
    Excited to share a new paper on Decolonisation and AI. With the amazing @png_marie @wsisaac 🤩 we explore why Decolonial theory matters for our field, and tactics to decolonise and reshape our field into a Decolonial AI. Feedback please 🙏🏾 Thread 👇🏾 arxiv.org/abs/2007.04068
    Image
  • user avatar
    Shakir Mohamed
    @shakir_za
    Sep 29, 2021
    We've worked for a few years on the problem of nowcasting, making short-term weather predictions ☔️. I think this is a powerful example of what is possible with generative models 🚀🤩. Excited to share our paper in @Nature today🎉🥳. nature.com/articles/s4158…
  • user avatar
    Shakir Mohamed
    @shakir_za
    Jul 31, 2019
    Really excited to share our latest paper in @Nature today on machine learning for health data to make early predictions of acute kidney injury. Has been an amazing journey over the last 2 years and with an amazing set of people. nature.com/articles/s4158…
    Image
  • user avatar
    Shakir Mohamed
    @shakir_za
    Jul 12, 2020
    In case anyone wants the slides for the tutorial, you can find them here: shakirm.com/slides/MLSS202… Thanks again to all the amazing participants @MLSS_Tuebingen 🖤 #MLS2020
    user avatar
    Robert Lange
    @RobertTLange
    Jul 10, 2020
    Beautiful overview of Bayesian Methods in ML by @shakir_za at #MLSS2020. Left me pondering about many things beyond Bayesian Inference. Thank you Shakir🙏 Quote of the day: “The cyclist, not the cycle, steers.“🚴‍♀️ 🎤 P-I: youtu.be/x4Y90zPjbq0 🎤 P-II: youtu.be/DItJbz2OH5U
    Image
    Image
    Image
    Image
  • user avatar
    Shakir Mohamed
    @shakir_za
    Sep 4, 2017
    The slides for our .@uai2017 tutorial on Deep Generative Models are online. shakirm.com/slides/DeepGen… with .@DeepSpiker (sorry for delay 😨)
    Image
  • user avatar
    Shakir Mohamed
    @shakir_za
    Jan 14, 2018
    First post for 2018! Machine Learning Trick of the Day (7): Density Ratio Trick. Somehow let 2 years pass and a long list of tricks are waiting. In this post, on the importance of statistical comparisons, density ratios and classification. wp.me/p3hD0L-be
  • user avatar
    Shakir Mohamed
    @shakir_za
    Oct 14, 2018
    The videos from the 3 lectures I gave at #MLSS2018 are online🌱. If you watch any part of the 4.5 hours leave me some feedback: what's missing, should be left out, reordered, etc Video 1: youtu.be/BgZ_UFsjCD4 Video 2: youtu.be/YdwbVgEsg2M Video 3: youtu.be/B_F8PtU2XMU
    user avatar
    Shakir Mohamed
    @shakir_za
    Aug 28, 2018
    The attendees at #mlss2018 Madrid were one of the most engaged I've ever had: so many questions and thoughts😻. I gave 3 lectures on 'Planting the Seeds of Probabilistic Thinking'. 🌱🎲 See the slides here: shakirm.com/slides/MLSS201…
    Image
  • user avatar
    Shakir Mohamed
    @shakir_za
    Jul 10, 2024
    A great honour that our work on medium-range weather forecasting and Graphcast has been selected as the winner of this year’s MacRobert award, the UK’s premier award for engineering innovation 🥳
    user avatar
    Royal Academy of Engineering
    @RAEngNews
    Jul 9, 2024
    🏅 The winner of the 2024 #MacRobertAward is... @GoogleDeepMind Huge congratulations to the team behind GraphCast, which uses machine learning and vast data sets to give highly accurate and timely weather predictions up to 10 days in advance: macrobertaward.raeng.org.uk #RAEngAwards
    Image
    00:00
    8.8K
  • user avatar
    Shakir Mohamed
    @shakir_za
    Aug 24, 2019
    After a year of intense effort we are making our way to Nairobi for the 3rd Deep Learning Indaba @DeepIndaba 😻 There's a community of people who have given every part of themselves to Raise Africa's voice in AI 👉🏽 deeplearningindaba.com/committee-2019… 🦁 #SautiYetu #DLIndaba2019 #Masakhane
    Image
  • user avatar
    Shakir Mohamed
    @shakir_za
    Aug 6, 2020
    I was extremely excited to give a short talk on 'Queering Machine Learning'. Queering is an approach for a more critical ML that is available to us all. Thank you @QueerinAI workshop @icmlconf #ICML2020 🙏🏾🏳️‍🌈🥳✊🏾. Video, text, slides here 👇🏾 blog.shakirm.com/2020/08/queeri…

New to X?

Sign up now to get your own personalized timeline!

Create account

By signing up, you agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, including Cookie Use.

Terms·Privacy·Cookies·Accessibility·Ads Info·© 2026 X Corp.
Don't miss what's happening
People on X are the first to know.
Log inSign up
Advertisement
Advertisement