Berthine Nyunga Mpinda

I am currently serving as a Tutor at AIMS Cameroon, with particular attention to Data Science. I completed master’s degree in Machine Intelligence from African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, AIMS Ghana. Prior to joining AIMS Ghana, I completed my master's degree in Mathematical Science from the Stellenbosch University, South Africa. I obtained my bachelor degree in Applied Mathematics at the University of Kinshasa, DR Congo. I have supported the establishment of the Women in Machine Learning and Data Science Kinshasa chapter, where Machine Learning skills are being passed on to young girls to simulate their interest in STEM.

Welcome to my website!


- Machine Learning	- Teaching Assistant, AIMS Cameroon	South West Region,
- Deep Learning	- Teaching Assistant, UNIKIN	Crystal garden,
- Computer Vision	- Internship at MKF Consulting	AIMS- Cameroon,
- Financial Mathematics	- Internship at Central Bank of Congo	Limbe, Cameroon

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MSc. University of Ghana

Oct, 2019 - Oct, 2020

I completed a Machine Intelligence program at the African Masters in Machine Intelligence (AMMI) in Ghana. A Master’s program founded by Google and Facebook that provides me with state-of-the-art training in Machine Learning and its Applications.

Business Managment School AIMS ESMT - IIP

June, 2019 - Aug, 2019

I recevied an AIMS ESMT- IIP scholarship to undertake a Business School management and skills development at AIMS South Africa. The program has been conceived as a mixture of academic, practical learning, and skill development which allowed me to transition from a scientific environment to an applied industry setting.

MSc. Stellenbosch University

Aug, 2018 - Jun, 2019

I awarded a MasterCard Foundation scholarship to pursue studies in Mathematical Sciences between Stellenbosch University and African Institute for Mathematical Sciences(AIMS - SA).

Master Thesis: Pricing American Option using Least Squares Monte Carlo method.

Supervisor: Prof Philip Mashele

BSc. Université de Kinshasa

Oct, 2010 - Jul, 2016

I hold a Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics summa cum laudo from University of Kinshasa in RDC.

Final project : Système Bonus-Malus applicable par les compagnies d'assurance automobile en RDC.

Supervisor: Prof. Leonard Manya(+).

Summer Schools, Workshops and Mentorship Events

Summer School: AIMS-IWR "Advances in Mathematical Optimization Course", Heidelberg University, Dec 2018.
Summer School: Virtual Data Science Africa, July 2020.
Summer School: The 13th European Summer School in Financial Mathematics (ESSFM20), Sept 2020
Gene Golub SIAM SummerSchool: Theory and Practice of Deep Learning, July 2021.
The first AIMS Mathematical Sciences Conference, AIMS South Africa, June 2019.
Mentorship event: "The Next Einstein is Female", AIMSWIS, Nov 2018.

Volunteer Experiences

Mathematics Tutor: Forum Mathematiques et Informatique (FMI), UNIKIN (DRC), 2015-2017.
Mathematics Tutor : IkamvaYouth, Cape Town(SA), Jan - June 2019.
Mathematics Tutor : Schoolbac, Jan 2020 - Present
Student Volunteer : STEM DRC Initiative, Feb 2020 - Present
Volunteer : International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2020), July 2020
Breakout session Facilitator: Women in Machine Learning,ICML 2020, July 2020.
TA Python Workshop: Women Promoting Science to the Younger Generation, Aug 2020.
Volunteer : WIML Virtual Workshop @ NeurIPS 2020, Dec 2020.

Fellowship, Membership and Social Activities

Member of AIMS Women In STEM (AIMSWIS) INITIATIVE.
Representative of Health Club, AIMS Ghana.
WomenTech Global Ambassador.
Member of STEM DRC Initiative.
Member of Association des Femmes Mathematiciennes de Kinshasa.
Member of Schoolbac.com.
AIMS ESMT - II P2 Felllow.
Member of Women Promoting Science to the Younger Generation.
Organizer of the Women in Machine Learning and Data Science Kinshasa Chapter.

Conferences

Women In Machine Learning Conference: "Solving the Algorithm" organized by Yaaw, Accra, Dec 2019.
Online Internal Conference in Actuarial Science, data Science and finance (OICA), April 2020.
IEEE ICASSP 2020 45th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, May 2020.
Women Tech Global Conference 2020 Virtual, June 2020.
International Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL2020), July 2020.
The 58th Annual Meetting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2020), July 2020.
The 37th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2020), July 2020.
The 16th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV2020), Aug 2020.
The 5th European Online-Conference Artificial Intelligence in Industry and Finance, Sept 2020.
The 13th European Summer School in Financial Mathematics (ESSFM20), Sept 2020.
Virtual Heidelberg Laureate Forum- HLF 2020, Sep 2020.
Women Tech Global Awards 2020, Dec 2020.
The 34th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Dec 2020.
Women In Machine Learning Conference organized by Yaaw, Dec 2020.
The 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2021), July 2021.

Programming Languages

Python
R
Julia
HTML
Sage Math
Etc.

Mathematics Software, Code Editors

Geogebra
LateX
Jupyter Notebook
Jupyter Lab
Visual Studio Code
Notepad ++
Colab

Libraries

Pytorch
Keras
SciKit-learn
Numpy
Pandas
OpenCv
Etc.

Online Certificates

"Mathematics for Machine Learning : Linear Algebra" on Coursera . My certificate here 😍.
"Neural Network and Deep Learning" authorized by deeplearning.ai and offered through Coursera . My certificate here 😍.
"Machine Learning with Python" an online course authorized by IBM and offered through Coursera . My certificate here 😍.
Zindi Competition : "Expresso Churn Prediction Challenge” Certificate of participation.
Zindi Competition : "Financial Resilience Challenge” Certificate of participation.

Written and Spoken Languages

English
French
Lingala
Tshiluba

Coming soon 😍

Sent me a Message

I am motivated by these quotes:

No matter the challenge.Get up, dress up, show up and NEVER GIVE UP!!

Great success comes from great personal sacrifices

International Women's Day 2020

Happy International Women's Day to all AIMS Ghana female students, Tutors and Staff ! I shared my quote for #IDW2020.

It doesn't matter if you are a woman, the important thing is your determination, never let go of your dreams ! Berthine Nyunga

Pi Day 2020

Mathematics is everywhere in the organization of the civilization: it helps designing electoral system that better represente the pepol's will. my quote here. 😍

My Data Science Journey

It was a pleasure to share my journey in data science and working in internships with the 10 Academy students. Click here to see my presentation. 😍

Interview

My interview with Afrik.com about my journey as a Mathematician and Machine Learning researcher Click here to read the article.

My interview with Next Einstein.org about my journey as a AIMS Alumna and MasterCard Scholard Click here to read the article.

It has been an honour to be among the 20 portraits of young African talents in the cio-mag magazine on #Youth, #Entrepreneurship and #Innovation. Click here to read the article.

Kindly, click here to found my resume.

I am a recipient of several awards and grants including:

MasterCard Foundation scholars grants
ESMT-Berlin scholarship
Google and Facebook scholarship
Women in Machine Learning grants
Black in AI grants
ICML2021 internet bandwidth/VPN grant