Dr Peter Ochieng

• 2015 – 2019: PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Makerere University, Kenya
• 2022 – present: DeepMind Academic Fellow in Computer Science, University of Cambridge

Research

Peter joined Queens’ in 2022. He conducts research in natural language processing, biomedical ontologies and AI. He is keen to leverage work in these areas to help the development of more apps in human and veterinary medicine and agritech that could benefit people living in Africa. His recent research experimented with applying unsupervised learning techniques to develop conversational machine learning tools. He did this in the context of an app to help rural farmers diagnose disease in flocks of poultry, where the app needed to be able to handle both general questions and more specific ones. There is also the need to compress the very large AI models used in apps so that they can easily be used on mobile phones over mobile internet.

University

Peter is the inaugural DeepMind Academic Fellow in Computer Science.