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[Albert Mends @mendsalbert]

Congratulations Dr. 🎉

[stephen moore @moorekwesi]

I am an appointed Associate Editor for the newly established "AI in Global Health". It is a fully Open Access journal and official journal of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH).

Consider submitting your articles.

https://t.co/8gEbSsoTEG

[stephen moore @moorekwesi]

I am an appointed Associate Editor for the newly established "AI in Global Health". It is a fully Open Access journal and official journal of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH).

Consider submitting your articles.

https://t.co/8gEbSsoTEG

[stephen moore @moorekwesi]

Meet me there...🤗

[Kweku Tech @kwekutech]

Most mathematicians choose one problem and spend a career solving it. Stephen Moore(@moorekwesi) looked at Africa's most urgent problems and decided all of them were math problems.

He was not wrong.

Born in Saltpond, Ghana. BSc Mathematics with distinction from KNUST. Then two master's degrees in Europe, one from Kaiserslautern, one from Johannes Kepler University Linz, where he stayed to complete his PhD in Computational Mathematics. He was being shaped by the finest applied mathematics institutions on the continent, and then choosing to come back.

That choice is the whole story.

Because Stephen did not return to teach and wait. He returned to build infrastructure that Ghana did not yet know it needed.

He joined @GhanaNLP and became Director of Programs. What started as a quiet research initiative became the engine behind @KhayaAI, Africa's first AI translation tool for Ghanaian languages. His team published what is now the largest Ghana language dataset ever released online: 41,513 parallel sentence pairs across Twi, Fante, Ewe, Ga, and Kusaal. Not proprietary. Public. So every researcher, every developer, every language technology builder in the world could access it freely.

He was not building a product. He was building a floor for everyone else to build on.

Then came the grants. Google Research, twice. Over USD 95,000 to advance multilingual and multimodal work for global health. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, for AfriMed-QA, a pan-African medical question-answering benchmark. USD 100,000. The British Council. A collaboration with University College London worth GBP 150,000 for AI solutions to humanitarian challenges.

The world kept arriving at his door. He kept answering and routing everything back to Cape Coast.

His research now spans computational mathematics, mathematical epidemiology, machine learning, and African language AI. Forty-plus published papers. Collaborations with INRIA in France, University of L'Aquila in Italy, where he is a Visiting Professor.

The National University of Singapore invited him to a joint ASEAN-Africa workshop on computational mathematics. He was one of ten Africans in the room.

He is also the person who set up a formal exchange program so that mathematics graduate students from the University of Cape Coast can spend a semester in L'Aquila studying at the highest level. Six students have gone so far. More are going.

He teaches, supervises, publishes, builds, and then builds the pathway so others can follow.

At the 2025 Global AI Summit on Africa in Kigali, Stephen stood at Booth 18 and demonstrated Khaya AI to the world. The tool that started in a research group at a Ghanaian university was now being shown on a continental stage.

@moorekwesi is proof that the most powerful thing a mathematician can do is refuse to separate the theoretical from the practical, and refuse to separate their success from their community.
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The equations were never just on paper. They were always about the people.

[Albert Mends @mendsalbert]

@1RealJoeyB Am I the only one who hears the same chord progression as “Just the two of us” Bill Withers?

[stephen moore @moorekwesi]

We benchmarked 43 Ghanaian languages across 19 existing LLMs. We can tell which LLMs are perform best in which language. In the process, we have trained over 10 volunteers on benchmarking techniques. Join to learn about LLMs. https://t.co/SmJK79XjRT @GhanaNLP @KhayaAI @pazunre

[Albert Mends @mendsalbert]

@moorekwesi Impressive 🔥

[shaunn armah @shaunnarmah]

how this BiC pen changed the world.

[Albert Mends @mendsalbert]

@KojoWud__ Good music always wins

[Sarkodie @sarkodie]

It’s official! SOLD OUT ! Big up uk 🇬🇧 you guys gassed me up… You guys did this! see yall 6th march at the @RoyalAlbertHall #RapperholicUk26

[Albert Mends @mendsalbert]

@DramaAlert What problem does this solve btw?

[Albert Mends @mendsalbert]

@kwakuasanteb "Ma me nhwɛ wo log book"
you slack wey u no carry your licence de3 jack pot give aban

[Albert Mends @mendsalbert]

“Isn’t it crazy how we thought rocks to do math?”

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

https://t.co/mcJj2dKrZV

[Albert Mends @mendsalbert]

@MKBHD Bro that video is fire 🔥

[stephen moore @moorekwesi]

@mendsalbert congrats

[Albert Mends @mendsalbert]

@moorekwesi Thanks Prof 🙏🏾

[Albert Mends @mendsalbert]

Incredibly exciting news that just made my year!

Our paper, titled "Dual branch CNN with attention model using an Adaptive Multi-scale Edge Aware Feature," has been officially peer-reviewed and accepted for publication in the Journal of Computer Science and Information Security!

Read it: https://t.co/TdV0IS3qmo

[Albert Mends @mendsalbert]

https://t.co/6I9U5TJtv1

[Albert Mends @mendsalbert]

@gyaigyimii Had to be "Rebel Music"

[Albert Mends @mendsalbert]

@YouTube @MKBHD So now….. what’s up?