Abdigani Diriye Explained

Abdigani Diriye
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Nationality:Somali
Birth Date:1986
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Workplaces:
Doctoral Advisor:
  • Prof. Ann Blandford
  • Dr. Anastasios Tombros
Thesis Title:Search interfaces for known-item and exploratory search tasks
Thesis Url:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.565814
Thesis Year:2012

Abdigani Diriye (born 1986[1]) is a Somali computer scientist and research scientist at IBM Research – Africa,[2] working in the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI), data mining and financial technology (FinTech). Diriye was named a TEDGlobal 2017 fellow,[3] an MIT Technology Review 'Innovator Under 35', and a 'Next Einstein Forum' fellow.[4]

Education

Abdigani Diriye was schooled in the United Kingdom, moving from Somalia at age 5 due to civil unrest. Diriye received a Bachelor's degree in Computer science and Mathematics from Queen Mary University of London. Continuing onto the postgraduate level, Diriye earned a Master's in Advanced Computing from King's College London, a PhD in Computer Science at University College London in 2012 and an MBA from INSEAD in 2022.[5]

Research and career

Under the guidance of Prof. Ann Blandford and Dr. Anastasios Tombros, Diriye conducted his PhD research on understanding the role searching interfaces play in the process of information seeking.[6] [7] [8]

Diriye, during his PhD, undertook internships with Microsoft Research (June 2010 - October 2011) and Fuji-Xerox Palo Alto labs (June 2011).

Following his PhD, Diriye worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.[9] This position, working with Dr. Aniket Kittur led Diriye to develop new approaches that combine human and machine-generated data that helps people find and understand information on the internet more effectively.[10]

Currently Diriye is a research scientist and manager at IBM Research Africa and steers Innovate Ventures: a startup technology fund in Somalia, having founded it in 2012.[11] With Innovate Ventures, Diriye has partnered with Oxfam, VC4Africa, and Telesom. Diriye, through Innovate Ventures, has funded over $17,500 towards startups in Africa.

With IBM, Diriye and his team develop and deploy new approaches to securely mine, model and score individuals who are applying for financial loans. In 2016, Diriye and his team developed a machine learning approach that leverages new data sources to evaluate financial profiles and credit scores of hundreds of millions of Africans.

Over his career, Diriye has published over 35 patents and papers.

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: This scientist's organization provides resources to train and support Somali techies. MIT Technology Review. en. 2019-02-28.
  2. Web site: Abdigani M. Diriye - IBM. 2016-07-25. researcher.watson.ibm.com. en-US. 2019-02-28.
  3. Web site: Meet the TEDGlobal 2017 Fellows. 2017-05-23. TED Blog. en. 2019-02-28.
  4. Web site: Abdigani Diriye. 2017-09-11. Next Einstein Forum. en-US. 2019-02-28.
  5. Web site: Congratulations to Abdi Diriye. Centre. UCLIC-UCL Interaction. UCLIC - UCL Interaction Centre. 2 June 2017 . en. 2019-02-28.
  6. Diriye. Abdigani. Blandford. Ann. Tombros. Anastasios. Vakkari. Pertti. 2013. Aalberg. Trond. Papatheodorou. Christos. Dobreva. Milena. Tsakonas. Giannis. Farrugia. Charles J.. The Role of Search Interface Features during Information Seeking. Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. 8092. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. en. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 235–240. 10.1007/978-3-642-40501-3_23. 9783642405013.
  7. Diriye. Abdigani. Blandford. Ann. Tombros. Anastasios. 2010. Lalmas. Mounia. Jose. Joemon. Rauber. Andreas. Sebastiani. Fabrizio. Frommholz. Ingo. Exploring the Impact of Search Interface Features on Search Tasks. Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. 6273. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. en. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 184–195. 10.1007/978-3-642-15464-5_20. 9783642154645.
  8. Book: Diriye. Abdigani. Blandford. Ann. Tombros. Anastasios. Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries . A polyrepresentational approach to interactive query expansion . 2009. JCDL '09. New York, NY, USA. ACM. 217–220. 10.1145/1555400.1555434. 9781605583228. 16645428 .
  9. Web site: HCII Seminar. 2013-09-25. Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. en. 2019-02-28.
  10. Book: Kittur. Aniket. Peters. Andrew M.. Diriye. Abdigani. Telang. Trupti. Bove. Michael R.. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems . Costs and benefits of structured information foraging . 2013. CHI '13. New York, NY, USA. ACM. 2989–2998. 10.1145/2470654.2481415. 9781450318990. 16887917 .
  11. Web site: Our Story Is.... innovate.so. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20161129023611/http://www.innovate.so/ . 2016-11-29 . 2019-02-28.
  12. Web site: Meet the 10 African trailblazers on the TEDGlobal 2017 list. Torera Idowu, for. CNN. 23 May 2017 . 2019-02-28.
  13. Web site: Quartz Africa Innovators 2018: A list of 30 pioneers . Quartz . 20 September 2018 . 20 May 2022.

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