Antony was accepted for a prestigious Google DeepMind Scholarship, which selects 40
candidates annually, to pursue an MSc in Mathematical Science, specialization in Artificial
Intelligence for Science, as a joint program between the University of Cape Town and the
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences. This program seeks students who ‘gaze at the
stars and the world around them in wonder, and who want to use their talents to
accelerate scientific discovery’. Antony could not have been a better candidate. Now, in his
9th month of the Master's program, he is working on a research project that examines
whether machine learning models capable of processing multimodal data can be used to
redefine how medical educators effectively assess their students via video.
While pursuing a challenging endeavour like a postgraduate program, Antony appreciates
the preparation in resilience that he gathered at KamiLimu. He muses, ‘Having completed
an immersive program like KamiLimu, I know I can do a hard thing like excelling in a fast-
paced Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence.’ Combining this quest with hiking and biking
up to 30 kilometers at a time, prioritizing time with his family and girlfriend, and drawing
from a family tradition of hard work, Antony believes that he is well balanced to continue
enduring during tough times and energizing from successful periods. His journey, from
engineering prosthetic arms to a deep dive into using Pandas to process data, and now
strengthening his research muscles in Artificial Intelligence, has him well on his way to
realizing his dream of leading a research laboratory. As he reminisces about his time at
KamiLimu, he notes that the people he learned from participated in and contribute to the
program as if it's their life’s work. And Antony has found his.
Having successfully
completed an
immersive program
like KamiLimu, I know I
can do a hard thing
like excelling in a
fast-paced Master’s
degree in Artificial
Intelligence.
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