Technology for Emerging Markets
Video
Extending ClimaX for Flood Forecasting
This video showcases the innovative work by the Microsoft Research Africa, Nairobi team on improving flood forecasting in Rwanda. By enhancing the ClimaX model, a transformer-based weather and climate model, the team aims to predict…
Microsoft Research Blog
Research Focus: Week of May 7, 2025
In this issue: New research on compound AI systems and causal verification of the Confidential Consortium Framework; release of Phi-4-reasoning; enriching tabular data with semantic structure, and more.
Video
AI for Africa’s Future: Innovation, Equity, and Impact
This was the third grand seminar was hosted by Microsoft Research Africa, Nairobi together with the Microsoft AI for Good team in April 2025 bringing together practitioners from academia, and industry to discuss how we…
Publication
Local Prompt Optimization
Project
African Health Stories
Leveraging generative AI to create interactive visual, oral and text stories to guide people living with Type II Diabetes on lifestyle changes
Project
Project Gecko
As generative AI transforms productivity and access to knowledge, its benefits must extend beyond English-speaking and Western-centric contexts. Historically, each industrial revolution has introduced equity gaps profoundly impacting societal divides. In this fourth industrial revolution…
Podcast
Ideas: Building AI for population-scale systems with Akshay Nambi
Advances in AI are driving meaningful real-world impact. Principal Researcher Akshay Nambi shares how his passion for tackling real-world challenges across various domains fuels his work in building reliable and robust AI systems.
Project
Beyond Hospital Walls: Transforming Healthcare with In-Home Monitoring
The rise of chronic diseases and the growing demand for personalized treatments drive our exploration of continuous monitoring systems. Our wireless and wearable sensing technologies are designed to continuously track vital signs and body movement…