Bubacarr Bah

Bubacarr Bah
Bubacarr Bah
Born	The Gambia
Alma mater	University of the Gambia (BSc); University of Oxford (MSc); University of Edinburgh (PhD);
	Scientific career
Fields	Applied mathematics; Computational mathematics; Data science;
Institutions	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; University of Texas at Austin; Stellenbosch University; African Institute for Mathematical Sciences;
Theses	Diffusion Maps: Analysis and Applications (2008); Restricted isometry constants in compressed sensing (2012);
Doctoral advisor	Jared Tanner
Website	sites.google.com/aims.ac.za/bubacarr

Bubacarr Bah is a Gambian mathematician. He is (as at July 2024) Associate Professor and Head of Data Science at the MRC Unit based at Banjul, The Gambia. (Note that the unit is run by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - but was previously managed by the Medical Research Council (United Kingdom). See COVID-19 pandemic in the Gambia). He was previously (2016 - 2022) the chair of Data Science at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS). He has recently been assistant professor at Stellenbosch University.