While some of her cohorts are most passionate about sensor fusion or robotics, Ms. Diagne is into artificial intelligence and machine deep-learning. She helped create an award-winning networking app to meet others with similar interests — like Tinder but for tech nerds. And she founded a start-up called Afyasense (she borrowed “afya,” or health, from Swahili, an East African language) for her disease-detection projects using A.I. Ms. Diagne wants to use A.I. Her malaria project recently won an award at an A.I.

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Persons: Diagne, “, ”, Ismaïla Seck, Diagne’s Locations: East, Dakar, Ghana, Senegal