Vukosi Marivate is an associate professor at the University of Pretoria, where he also holds the prestigious ABSA UP Chair of Data Science. His expertise lies in the fields of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), with a particular focus on natural language processing (NLP) and the development of solutions for local or low-resource languages. Co-Founder of Lelapa AI, Maskahane Research Foundation and the Deep Learning Indaba.