Rendani Mbuvha

Assoc Prof at UoM, Actuary, Bayesian ML Research. Climate Risk. Retweets are not endorsements.

[AfriClimate AI @AfriClimateAI]

Africa should help shape the future of AI weather forecasting—not just consume technologies developed elsewhere.
Excited to partner with @OxfordPhysics and welcome Dr Shruti Nath as Research Lead to help build the next generation of forecasting systems for Africa.

[Jakob Foerster @j_foerst]

Today marks 10 years since one of our greatest minds and most wonderful educators left us.

[ActuarialSocietyofSA @ActuarialSa]

Actuaries Professor Rendani Mbuvha and Dr Nadine van der Walt demonstrate the @ActuarialSa Climate Index at #ASSA2025ZA. The index aims to facilitate informed risk management by insurers, medical aid schemes, policymakers, and other stakeholders who are likely to suffer losses as a result of changing climate patterns. The index is available here: https://t.co/A2YgCEjx8i

[Peter Battaglia @PeterWBattaglia]

Today we’re thrilled to announce that real-time and historical AI-based weather forecasts from @Google’s WeatherNext suite of models are now available on Earth Engine and BigQuery. Anyone can access and use these data for research, analysis and operational decision making, which we hope will help accelerate research and development in the weather and climate community.

You can check out the AI-powered forecasts here: https://t.co/Dj1lq1VyZ4

[Lewis Hamilton @LewisHamilton]

New era @ScuderiaFerrari

[AfriClimate AI @AfriClimateAI]

Announcing:🌍 AfriNet: Connecting Africa Through Climate Data 🌱

AfriNet is an AfriClimate AI initiative focused on revolutionizing African climate data collection.
The collected data will be freely available to researchers and students in Africa.
more

https://t.co/St18hdoGvn

[Rendani Mbuvha @rendx]

Looking forward to it!🪘🪘🪘

[Deep Learning Indaba @DeepIndaba]

Rwanda here we go ! 🇷🇼

We are excited to announce that the Deep Learning Indaba 2025 annual event will be back for its 7th edition taking place in Kigali, Rwanda from the 17th to 22nd of August, 2025 at @Uni_Rwanda. 🌍✨

As always, our team is hard at work crafting our amazing gathering packed with inspiring talks, interactive workshops, and incredible opportunities to connect with our African AI community.

The applications launch is just around the corner! Stay tuned and don’t miss out—follow us on our social media channels and visit our official website for the latest updates: 👉 https://t.co/oxxgBlqIT3 🚀

#DLI2025
#Indaba2025

[Rendani Mbuvha @rendx]

I am currently recruiting for a funded PhD position at the University of Manchester for a project at the intersection of (ML—) Seasonal Weather Forecasting and Parametric Insurance (Sept 2025 start). Please share with anyone who might be interested!
https://t.co/SuPz7pJjlq

[Shakir Mohamed @shakir_za]

The next generation of probabilistic machine learning for weather called GenCast is published in @Nature today 🥳. Amazing to see the collective progress in ML for weather as a field over the last 5 years. 🏖️ https://t.co/AruisY8Tg8

[Rendani Mbuvha @rendx]

This year, the @Google PhD fellowship program celebrates 15 years with the announcement of the 2024 fellows. I am honoured to have been featured among the nine early fellows of the program.

https://t.co/zXMdnQEcF8

[Blanshe Musinguzi @Johnblanshe_m]

“Traditional weather forecasting models rely on numerical parameterisations of various processes in the atmosphere, land, and sea. This is complex to explicitly model, causing these models to run slowly and exhibit systematic biases,” @rendx & @AmalNammouchi
https://t.co/N683wD7Srr

[David Ifeoluwa Adelani 🇳🇬 @davlanade]

Join my lab! I’m currently recruiting new students (MSc & PhD) for admission in the fall of 2025 at
@Mila_Quebec
https://t.co/kOGpVOSTGB

Are you interested in multilingual NLP? I would encourage you to apply.

Deadline: December 1

[John Bagiliko @myzta_tee]

Dear media houses in Ghana (@ghonetv, @tv3_ghana, @adom_tv, @JoyNewsOnTV, etc.),
@AIGhana1 is organising AI Afahyɛ. We were running low on budget so we could not pay any house for coverage. I humbly invite you to cover the event if interested. See details in thread.
#aighana

[Bunmi Akinremi @bumie_rose]

From being a typical workshop attendee to being part of the workshop organizers @AfriClimateAI 🫣😁.

Met the full team for the first time in person @DeepIndaba 2024🤭. From engaging Rendani during his presentation at a workshop last year to saying ‘yes, we can do a community’🤭

[AfriClimate AI @AfriClimateAI]

🌍 We're excited to share our journey at this year's Deep Learning Indaba in Senegal!

Special thanks to our amazing team, partners TAHMO @DeepIndaba, sponsors @instadeepai, and the media @FRANCE24 @iafrikan for amplifying our work:

Read the full blog🙌
https://t.co/b6yexH2067

[AfriClimate AI @AfriClimateAI]

🪘Our second workshop speaker 🪘
at the Deep Learning Indaba
- Dr. Jason Hickey, Google Research lead in Accra, Ghana who has dedicated decades of experience in AI to solving Africa's unique challenges.

Learn more: https://t.co/9weQdhCfpW

[AfriClimate AI @AfriClimateAI]

🪘Announcing our third invited guest of AfriClimate AI workshop at the Deep Learning Indaba 🪘

- lan Price , a research scientist at Google DeepMind

📅Friday, September 6th at 11 AM

Learn more: https://t.co/9weQdhCfpW

[AfriClimate AI @AfriClimateAI]

🪘Our first workshop speaker at the Deep Learning Indaba
- Mouhamadou Bamba Sylla, AIMS Network Research Chair in Climate Change Science at AIMS in Rwanda and a leading expert in climate modeling and change.

This Friday, September 6th at 11 AM
Visit: https://t.co/vX3fcmnsJI

[Shakir Mohamed @shakir_za]

This year’s award winners are truly exceptional 🤩 covering all range of topics in AI research, technology and impact in their countries, across Africa, and beyond. Have a look through the thread and read the blog to see recipients humbling testimony on their achievements 🌍🏆

[Athletics Kenya @athletics_kenya]

Congratulations to Faith Kipyegon, her silver medal 🥈 has been reinstated. Kenya’s team officials led by Milka Chemos, Bernard Ouma and Team Manager Peter Angwenyi successfully appealed and won her case
Viva kenya 🇰🇪 #ParisOlympics20