Vukosi Marivate

Vukosi Marivate (born in Ga-Rankuwa, South Africa) is a South African computer scientist who holds the ABSA-UP Chair of Data Science and serves as Professor of Computer Science at the University of Pretoria (UP). He is known for his pioneering work in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), especially in natural language processing (NLP) for African and other low-resource languages. He is a co-founder of the Deep Learning Indaba, [https://lelapa.ai/about/the-team/ Lelapa AI], the Masakhane Research Foundation, and leads the Data Science for Social Impact research group at UP. In 2026, he was appointed to the United Nations Independent International Scientific Panel on AI. Provided by Wikipedia