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We are proud to share that our lab member Dr Hellina Hailu Nigatu has received the Wangari Maathai Impact Award from @deeplearningindaba.bsky.social The award recognises impactful work driving positive change in AI and ML across Africa. A Huge Congratulations to Dr Nigatu! 🎉

Dr Nigatu was recognised for her work investigating gender bias in machine translation for three low-resourced Ethiopian languages: Amharic, Tigrinya and Afan Oromo. The project supported seven Ethiopian female students as paid researchers, with funding, compute access and mentorship.