Manuel A. Fokam 🧠

Manuel A. Fokam

Master’s Student in Computer Science

University of the Witwatersrand

Manuel Fokam is a Master’s by Dissertation Student in Computer Science. His current research interests revolve around Self-Supervised Representation Learning. He is currently a DeepMind Scholar at his university and has had the honor to be featured in a series of short docs called #AIByYou. Other than that, he often explores different fields of Artificial Intelligence with a particular interest in the mathematical foundations and engineering aspect.

Recent Publications

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Michael Beukman, Manuel A. Fokam, Marcel Kruger, Guy Axelrod, Muhammad Nasir, Branden Ingram, Benjamin Rosman, Steven James (2023). Hierarchically Composing Level Generators for the Creation of Complex Structures.

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Manuel A. Fokam (2022). Effects of Annotations' Density on Named Entity Recognition Models' Performance in the Context of African Languages.

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Manuel A. Fokam, Ritesh Ajoodha (2022). Influence of Contrastive Learning on Source Code Plagiarism Detection through Recursive Neural Networks. In IMITEC.

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Education

 
 
 
 
 
University of the Witwatersrand
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of the Witwatersrand
February 2022 – Present Johannesburg, South Africa
Research Project: Gradient-based Data Augmentation for Self-Supervised Learning.
 
 
 
 
 
University of the Witwatersrand
Bachelor of Science Honours - Computer Science
University of the Witwatersrand
February 2021 – December 2021 Johannesburg, South Africa
Research Project: Influence of Contrastive Learning on Source Code Plagiarism Detection.
 
 
 
 
 
University of Buea
Bachelor of Science - Applied Physics
University of Buea
October 2016 – August 2019 Buea, Cameroon
Final Year Project: Fundamentals of Quantum Computing.

Work Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Boostasoft
Software Engineer Intern
Boostasoft
February 2019 – February 2020 Remote (Cameroon)
Web and Mobile development using programming languages such as JS, Java, and frameworks revolving around the JS ecosystem (ReactJS, React Native, ExpressJS)

Awards & Prizes

DeepMind Scholarship
This scholarship is awarded to talented students across the globe to support them during the course of their academic program. As termed by DeepMind, the objective is to “Enable the next generation of AI researchers and engineers”.
Manuel A. Fokam
Feb 28, 2022
DeepMind Scholarship

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