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The four-day ACT-Africa 2026 workshop, themed “Introduction to Foundation Models for Addressing African Community Challenges,” successfully concluded on September 9th at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Addis Ababa . The landmark event brought together researchers, data scientists and developers from across the continent and the globe to tackle a critical challenge: adapting powerful AI technologies to ...

From CT-scanning leaves to exploring Michigan’s outdoors, Will Weaver‘s work as a MIDAS postdoctoral fellow bridges research, collaboration and discovery. A MIDAS postdoctoral fellowship is about more than conducting research. Fellows become part of a community of researchers working across disciplines, learning from one another and developing new approaches to some of today’s most challenging ...

MIDAS is pleased to announce the arrival of the 2026 cohort of postdocs, including the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellows (AISP), the Eric and Wendy Schmidt African Faculty Fellows (AFF), and the Michigan Data Science (MDS) Fellows. They were joined by the 2026 cohort of the MIDAS Postdoctoral Affiliates (PA).  Over ...

The Michigan Institute for Data & AI in Society (MIDAS) is proud to announce its 2026 cohort of Postdoctoral Affiliates, 10 outstanding researchers from diverse departments across the University of Michigan. This program is a key initiative in MIDAS’s mission to promote the development and application of AI and data science methodologies for scientific research ...