Localizing AI Research for Africa

RUZIVO
Research Lab

A grassroots collective advancing artificial intelligence that understands and serves African communities.

"RUZIVO" means knowledge in Shona

Our Research Focus Areas

We advance AI research across key domains with an African-first perspective, targeting the world's most prestigious conferences and journals.

Natural Language Processing

• African language models

• Low-resource NLP

• Cultural bias mitigation

• Multilingual systems

Computer Vision

• African context recognition

• Cultural heritage preservation

• Agricultural applications

• Medical imaging

Machine Learning

• Data-efficient learning

• Transfer learning

• Federated learning

• Domain adaptation

AI Ethics & Society

• Algorithmic fairness

• Bias detection

• Responsible AI

• Social impact assessment

Where We Publish & Present

RUZIVO researchers target the most prestigious venues in AI and ML, ensuring our work reaches both global and African research communities.

Target Conferences

Global NLP/ML Venues

• ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)

• EMNLP (Empirical Methods in NLP)

• AAAI (Artificial Intelligence)

• LREC (Language Resources & Evaluation)

Computer Vision

• CVPR (Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition)

• ICCV (International Conference on Computer Vision)

• ECCV (European Conference on Computer Vision)

Africa-Focused

• AfricaNLP Workshop @ ACL

• Deep Learning Indaba (Kigali)

• IndabaX (Pan-African)

Ethics & Society

• FAccT (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency)

• AIES (AI, Ethics, and Society)

Target Journals

Premier AI/ML Journals

• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)

• Transactions of the ACL (TACL)

• Machine Learning Journal (Springer)

Ethics & Society Focus

• AI & Society (Springer)

• Data & Society journals

• Ethics and Information Technology

Strategic positioning in both global and African research ecosystems

Be Part of the Movement

Whether you're a researcher, student, or simply passionate about Africa's technological future, there are many ways to contribute to our mission of localizing AI research for the continent.