SAAIL Lab Sustainable AI for Agriculture & Intelligent Livelihoods

5 Papers Accepted at AAIAC 2026

2nd International Conference on Advancements of AI in the African Context — Mlimani City, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Patrick Ndowo & Innocent Nyalala.

• From Digital Consumerism to Strategic Sovereignty: Analyzing the Draft EAC Regional AI Strategy
• Leakage-Free Fraud Detection in Mobile-First Banking: A PR-AUC Benchmark for East Africa
• Physics-Informed Random Forest for Solar Irradiance Forecasting in Tanzanian Off-Grid Mini-Grids
• Resilient Cyber Defence for African Military 5G Networks: Hybrid ML Framework
• Predicting Insurgency Hotspots in the Sahel via GTD Data

5 Papers at DSA 2026 Workshop

Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda (23–24 Jul 2026). 3 oral presentations + 2 poster presentations.

• 🎤 When Synthetic Data Hurts: DCGAN Augmentation Failure for Cassava Disease Classification
• 🎤 Auditing Representation in Crop Disease Benchmark Datasets for Sub-Saharan Africa
• 🎤 Few-Shot Transfer Learning for Cassava Leaf Disease Detection Under East African Field Conditions
• 📌 + 2 poster presentations

CLOVES-4603: Benchmarking Classical Texture Features and Fine-Tuned Deep Models for Clove Quality Grading

I Nyalala, P Vincent — 7th Workshop on Vision for Agriculture (CV4A) @ CVPR 2026.

Unifying Perspectives on Learning Biases: A Data-Centric Intervention for Holistic Fairness, Robustness, and Generalization

P Vincent, I Nyalala — ICLR 2026 Workshop on Principled Design for Trustworthy AI-Interpretability.