The fully funded GSEP scientific fellowships are aimed at Master’s level students who wish to gain research experience in a subject of their interest at a Berlin university. The experience is intended to increase chances of applying successfully to a doctoral program in the Global North and to provide fellows with hands-on research experience in an interdisciplinary environment.

In collaboration with the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), five candidates were selected for the pilot phase. During their stay at SCIoI, these young researchers will work on a project in their respective labs and attend relevant lectures and symposia at SCIoI and partner institutions as well as cultural and social activities.

Meet our GSEP researchers:

Emmanuel Owusu Ahenkan
(Prof. Klaus Obermayer)

Arinze Lawrence Folarin
(Profs. Oliver Brock & Marc Toussaint)

Arinze Lawrence Folarin was born in Nigeria. He has an undergraduate degree (first-class honours) in Mathematics from the University of Ibadan and a Master’s degree in Mathematical Sciences (Distinction) from the University of Stellenbosch / African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in South Africa, where he also learned about Reinforcement Learning. During his Master’s program, he focused on analyzing central reinforcement learning algorithms for malaria control, and he is now more interested in using reinforcement learning in robotics and policy-making.

His ambition is to become a world-class professor in the field of reinforcement learning and robotics in order to work with other researchers to solve problems that affect Africa and the rest of the world.

His belief is that, by the end of the research internship, his research skills will have improved exponentially, qualifying him for a PhD position. He is also convinced that his improved personal development resulting from this experience will allow him to pursue many job opportunities in the future.

Elijah Koech Kiprono
(Prof. Olaf Hellwich)

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Juliana T.C. Marcos
(Prof. Guillermo Gallego)

At SCIoI, Juliana is affiliated with the lab of Computer Vision and Robotics of Prof. Dr Guillermo Gallego. She will work on detecting and tracking objects for space situational awareness using event-based cameras. The focus of her project is to understand the operation of event-based cameras (specifically their noise characteristics) as well as to design efficient methods for the detection and tracking of small objects in data produced by an event-based camera, such as the Event-based Space Situational Awareness (EBSSA) dataset.

Tatiana Ngoli Moteu
(Prof. Alan Akbik)

Tatiana Ngoli Moteu is a young and passionate learner from Cameroon with a background in computer science with a focus on software engineering, and an interest in natural language processing. She holds two bachelor’s degrees from the University of Ngaoundere, Cameroon; one in Architecture and Networks and another one in Software Engineering. After receiving those, she obtained a Master’s degree Information Systems and Software Engineering from the University of Yaounde I, Cameroon.
Later, She got selected and completed a one-year intensive Master’s in Machine Learning under the African Master for Machine Intelligence program (AMMI Ghana) sponsored by Facebook and Google. While interested in manipulating text, she completed her Master’s project in Natural Language Processing, especially in co-reference resolution.
While at SCIoI, Tatiana will be working in the laboratory of Prof. Alan Akbik, working on the topic of data augmentation for NLP. During her research she will be focusing on the English Name Entity Recognition (NER) dataset. She believes that participating in this program is an excellent opportunity, which that will allow her to interact and exchange with diverse people from different backgrounds, to gain more experience and knowledge in the research domain, and in the end get a PhD position that will help her pursue her career goal. She also expects to explore and learn more about Germany, its culture, and traditions.