The WetLab virologist aspiring to be dry, also known as The Jekyll Guru, is passionate about viruses, especially passionate about arboviruses.
Thankfully, there are a few students who are like Malick, otherwise, teaching will be a completely depressing activity. Malick is one of my student at the Dakar Institute of Technology. I am incredibly impressed with his dedication to learning. His consistent hard work and effort are truly admirable.
Nourou is actually working on an interesting topic: the relationships that may exists between the rows (or between the columns) of a matrix. But also how those relationships may influence the result of any data analysis that may be done on this matrix. He's also one of the brilliant minds trying to build the Dakar Institute of Technology.
Moctar is passionate about mathematics, computer science, and of course, everything related to machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence. He smiles when he solves problems, nobody know why. Please check his profile.
Enock, is a free & open source advocate and trainer. As you can see, three keywords about him are: FOSS4G, FLOSS, Open Data. He contributed to projects such as WikiData, OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia. He is also among the PyCON Africa 2019 speakers. I saw him do interesting things with GIS.
Mamadou is also a free & open source advocate. But with a high focus on electronics, in fact, he spend most of his time in his fablab, playing with 3D printing, robots, micro controlers, sensors, etc ... Everytime I have a problem with my circuits, I just ask him for help.
Romaric, intelligent, amazing, awesome guy. Passionate about everything he does. Currently tackling one of the biggest challenges in Africa: no addresses. He is fascinated by people who try new things. I am lucky to have met this gentleman.
Alassane's motto is to help as many people as possible. To reach that goal, he did many things. Among others, he founded "Métisse de l’Empire", to run activities that will generate incomes for non-profit organizations involved in social issues around Senegal. He's also one of the people behind l'Empire des enfants, a non-profit that tries to help underprivileged/abandoned children.
Ahmadou is a statistical consultant and R enthusiast, I mean really. I have seen him tell amazing stories with datas. He's a huge fan of free software, he swears only by ArchLinux, Emacs, & Org-mode. He told me once Julia is definitely the language he plans to use extensively in the next couple of months.
Thomas is a self-taught software engineer by sheer passion and hard, dedicated work. Thomas is interested in FOSS, Embedded systems, AI, and Machine Learning. He's also a star Wars geek.
I've met Orbifx on Mastodon. A very long time ago, he created an XMPP community. I joined. I know he enjoy everything related to Nature, Emails, NNTP, DNS. By the way, for being able to browse his website, you need to use an open and democratic alternative DNS root: OpenNIC. He also helped me discover Ocaml, he convinced me to go back and relearn C programming.
Girish is a software engineer passionate about free software. I enjoy reading his blog posts. When he's not in front of a computer, he is behind a camera to take beautiful pictures.
Hassane is an independent consultant. He says he loves Rust, Ruby, Go, Elixir, Haskell, Elm and JS. He's also one of the leads behind Dakar Ruby. And you'll find more about his tutorials here