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Dr. Ismaila Seck is CTO of Lengo, where he leads efforts to build AI models for shopkeepers in Senegal now and across Africa in the future. Ismaila is also a young teacher-researcher: after obtaining his engineering degree in Mathematics and Modeling, he did a thesis on "adversarial examples" at INSA Rouen before joining the African Master of Machine Intelligence (AMMI) as a post-doctoral researcher where he worked on ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition). He is also very active in the Senegalese AI community, GalsenAI, as the Academic Program Manager.