Josiah K. Kimani

Redesigning Assessment of Mathematics Education in the AI Era

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Experience

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Scholar · Builder · Engineer

Turning mathematics and code into real-world impact.

From full-stack enterprise software in Nairobi to AI research at the frontier of climate science in Cape Town — my career has been driven by a single thread: using technology to solve meaningful problems.

Years Experience

Organisations

Degrees

Work Experience

Program Assistant, Leadership Development Program

Emerging Leaders Foundation-Africa

Sep 2025 – Jan 2026

Implementing the iLEAD Fellowship Program (Cohort 12).
Providing AI-powered learning tool support across LDP and other departments.
Software, AI, and data engineering to enhance ICT infrastructure and support SMART decision-making.

Program Assistant, Leadership Development Program

Emerging Leaders Foundation-Africa

Sep 2023 – Aug 2024

Implemented and coordinated iLEAD Fellowship, NOW US! Awards, and St Andrews Turi Leadership Award.
Designed concept notes and proposals for LDP initiatives.
Developed programmatic content and supported I.T. infrastructure development.

Full-Stack Software Developer

Smart People Africa Limited Company

Nov 2020 – Aug 2023

Developed, implemented, and upgraded the PickPay Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system as lead full-stack developer.
Organised and trained users of the Water Utility ERP system.
Established Standard Operating Procedures for team quality control.

Peer Teacher

Kenswed Secondary School

Jul – Sep 2019

Tutored mathematics and physics for Form 1 to Form 4 students.
Organised the math-hour programme to support student revision.
Facilitated mentorship, guidance, and counselling for students.

Education

2024 – 2025

MSc Mathematical Sciences

Specialising in AI for Science

AIMS South Africa & Stellenbosch University

Cum Laude

2016 – 2021

BSc Mathematical Sciences with I.T.

Pure & Applied Mathematics, Statistics, IT

Maseno University, Kisumu, Kenya

First Class Honours · GPA 3.8/4.0

Technical Skills

Python · JAX · TensorFlow · PyTorch Java · SpringMVC · SpringBoot JavaScript · ExtJS · ReactJS Data Science · Machine Learning SQL · MySQL · PostgreSQL R · Advanced Excel Server Administration · CentOS Git · PHP · WordPress

Awards & Recognition

🏆

Google DeepMind Scholarship

2024 – 2025

Awarded for the MSc programme at AIMS South Africa, recognising academic excellence and research potential in AI for Science.

🎓

iLEAD Fellowship — Cohort 9

February 2023

Certificate of Completion from the Emerging Leaders Foundation-Africa structured leadership development programme.

Languages

🇬🇧

English

Native / Fluent

🇰🇪

Kiswahili

Native / Fluent

Leadership

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Community · Service · Impact

Leadership is about lifting others as you climb.

From student government to community organisations, I have consistently stepped into roles that demand accountability, initiative, and a heart for people — not for titles, but for service.

10+

Years

Roles

Organisations

Current Roles

2023 – Present

Financial Secretary

Santa Rosa De Lima Choir & Ngong Cathedral Brass Band

Budget planning, financial record-keeping, and transparent stewardship of community funds for two active music communities under the Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi.

2022 – Present

Organizing Secretary

iLEAD Fellowship Program, Cohort 9 — Emerging Leaders Foundation-Africa

Coordinating administration and logistics of the iLEAD Fellowship — scheduling, communications with fellows and facilitators, and programme delivery support.

2019 – Present

Chairperson

Kenswed Secondary School Alumni Association

Driving alumni reconnection, fundraising, and mentorship initiatives that channel graduate resources back into the school community.

Past Roles

Peace Ambassador & Peer Counsellor

2017 – 2020

Maseno University

Facilitated peer-led sessions on peaceful coexistence, emotional resilience, and responsible decision-making across student communities.

Chairperson, Catholic Students Association

2018 – 2019

Maseno University — also Vice-Chairperson, St. Anne's Chaplaincy Council

Led spiritual formation, community service projects, and inter-faith dialogues; contributed to broader chaplaincy governance and strategic planning.

Chairperson, Development Committee

2017 – 2018

St. Anne's Chaplaincy, Maseno University

Led infrastructure and programmatic growth initiatives, community fundraising drives, and volunteer coordination for campus-wide pastoral activities.

Treasurer, Christian Union

2014 – 2015

Kenswed Secondary School

Managed society finances and built early skills in financial accountability and trust stewardship within a student-led organisation.

Projects

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Research · Engineering · Innovation

Building at the frontier of AI and data science.

A selection of projects spanning machine learning, recommender systems, ecological modelling, and the open-source tools that power modern AI research.

Research & Engineering Projects

🌿

Deep Learning for Ecology

AIMS South Africa · 2024

Applying deep learning models to ecological classification and species detection tasks. Explores convolutional and transformer-based architectures for biodiversity monitoring across African ecosystems.

Python PyTorch Computer Vision Ecology

🎬

Movie Recommender System — ML at Scale

AIMS South Africa · 2024

A scalable movie recommender system using Alternating Least Squares (ALS) matrix factorisation, capable of delivering personalised recommendations from both implicit and explicit user feedback at scale.

Python PySpark ALS Collaborative Filtering

View on GitHub →

Civic Technology & Governance

Independent initiatives at the intersection of technology, democracy, and public accountability.

🇰🇪

Kenya Economic Survey 2026 — Digest

Independent Civic Initiative · 2026

An accessible, interactive digest of Kenya's Economic Survey 2026, distilling key economic indicators, sectoral performance, and policy insights for the public. A contribution to techno-democracy — making government data understandable and actionable for every citizen.

Civic Tech Open Data Governance Kenya

View Digest → GitHub →

Tools & Frameworks

Open-source libraries at the core of my research and engineering stack.

🔥

PyTorch

Python deep learning framework used across research projects — from computer vision models to weather prediction experiments with strong GPU acceleration.

Deep Learning GPU Tensors

GitHub →

🐼

Pandas

Flexible and powerful data analysis and manipulation library for Python. The foundation of every data pipeline and exploratory analysis in my workflow.

Data Analysis DataFrames Python

GitHub →

⚙️

scikit-learn

Python machine learning library built on SciPy. Used for classical ML pipelines, model evaluation, and benchmarking alongside deep learning approaches.

ML Pipelines Classification Evaluation

GitHub →

Publications

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Research · Communication · Impact

Research that advances AI for climate and human good.

My work sits at the intersection of machine learning and atmospheric science. I am passionate about making AI research accessible — through rigorous papers, public science communication, and open dialogue about AI's role in society.

Papers

Research Areas

Featured

Featured Publication

Preprint · 2025 ⭐ Featured

PiggyCast: Improving Weather Prediction Accuracy through a Stacking-Based Ensemble AI Approach

Josiah K. Kimani — AIMS South Africa & Stellenbosch University

AI Weather Prediction (AIWP) models have recently outperformed classical Numerical Weather Prediction models across multiple benchmarks. This paper introduces PiggyCast — a stacking-based ensemble that trains on forecast outputs from frontier AIWP models (hosted on WeatherBench 2) to predict ERA5 reanalysis variables. By piggybacking on the strengths of leading AI research teams, PiggyCast achieves notable improvements in Root Mean Squared Error on Geopotential Height at 500 hPa, with gains increasing at longer forecast lead times.

AI Weather Prediction Ensemble Learning Stacking Climate Science WeatherBench 2 ERA5

Conference Papers

Conference Paper · 2025

Redesigning Assessment of Mathematics Education in the AI Era

Josiah K. Kimani

Examining how the rise of AI tools is reshaping the design and evaluation of mathematics assessments — and what educators and institutions should do in response.

Mathematics Education AI in Education Assessment

Research Themes

Topics at the core of my research agenda.

AI Weather Prediction Climate Science Ensemble Methods Mathematics Education Science Communication AI Ethics & Society

Interested in Collaborating?

If our research interests overlap — AI, climate, weather prediction, or the governance of AI — I would love to hear from you.

Get in Touch →

Talks

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Public Talks · Panels · Science Communication

Making AI legible to the people it will affect most.

I believe AI researchers have a responsibility to speak beyond conference halls. From church halls to science festivals, I engage communities in honest conversations about what artificial intelligence is, what it is not, and what it means for their lives.

Talk

Topics

Cities

Recent Talks

July 2, 2025 Public Talk

Let's Talk The AI-Human Factor: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Intelligence

St James Catholic Church, Muizenburg, Cape Town

AI and Faith Event · Archdiocese of Cape Town

A public dialogue exploring the relationship between artificial intelligence and human intelligence — addressing what is at stake, the risks of hallucination, deepfakes, and job displacement, alongside the opportunities for personalised learning, data-driven solutions, and language translation. The talk concluded with a call to action: infuse human values and ethics into AI development, and leverage AI as a tool for human growth.

AI Ethics Faith & Technology Human-AI Interface Science Communication

View Details →

July 2025 Poster Session

The AI-Human Factor: A Science Communication Poster

AIMS South Africa

Africa Scientifique & African Gong

Presented a science communication poster breaking down how AI works — from data preparation and model creation to rollout — for a general audience. Explored the risks and opportunities of AI and issued a call to action for human-centred AI development.

Science Communication AI Literacy Public Engagement

Topics I Speak On

🌦️

AI for Climate

Weather prediction, forecasting, and climate adaptation using machine learning.

⚖️

AI Ethics & Governance

Responsible AI, techno-democracy, and policy for equitable AI in Africa.

🤝

AI & Society

The human-AI relationship, faith, culture, and what AI means for communities.

📐

AI in Education

How AI is reshaping teaching, learning, and assessment in mathematics and beyond.

Invite Me to Speak

Whether it is a community forum, school, church, conference, or panel — I am happy to engage audiences on AI, climate, and responsible technology.

Send an Invitation →

PiggyCast: Improving Weather Prediction Accuracy through a Stacking-Based Ensemble AI Approach

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Let's Talk The AI-Human Factor - AI and Faith'

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 13:00:00 +0000

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DL for Ecology

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Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures.

ML At Scale

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This project aims to develop a movie Recommender system, using the Alternating Least Squares (ALS) matrix factorization algorithm, capable of delivering personalized recommendations to users despite the amount of user data available to us through implicit or explicit feedback..

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Hugo Blox Builder is designed to give technical content creators a seamless experience. You can focus on the content and the Hugo Blox Builder which this template is built upon handles the rest.

Embed videos, podcasts, code, LaTeX math, and even test students!

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Video

Teach your course by sharing videos with your students. Choose from one of the following approaches:

Youtube:

{{< youtube w7Ft2ymGmfc >}}

Bilibili:

{{< bilibili id="BV1WV4y1r7DF" >}}

Video file

Videos may be added to a page by either placing them in your assets/media/ media library or in your page’s folder, and then embedding them with the video shortcode:

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Math

Hugo Blox Builder supports a Markdown extension for $\LaTeX$ math. You can enable this feature by toggling the math option in your config/_default/params.yaml file.

To render inline or block math, wrap your LaTeX math with {{< math >}}$...${{< /math >}} or {{< math >}}$$...$${{< /math >}}, respectively.

We wrap the LaTeX math in the Hugo Blox math shortcode to prevent Hugo rendering our math as Markdown.

Example math block:

{{< math >}}
$$
\gamma_{n} = \frac{ \left | \left (\mathbf x_{n} - \mathbf x_{n-1} \right )^T \left [\nabla F (\mathbf x_{n}) - \nabla F (\mathbf x_{n-1}) \right ] \right |}{\left \|\nabla F(\mathbf{x}_{n}) - \nabla F(\mathbf{x}_{n-1}) \right \|^2}
$$
{{< /math >}}

renders as

Example inline math {{< math >}}$\nabla F(\mathbf{x}_{n})${{< /math >}} renders as $\nabla F(\mathbf{x}_{n})$ .

Example multi-line math using the math linebreak (\\):

{{< math >}}
$$f(k;p_{0}^{*}) = \begin{cases}p_{0}^{*} & \text{if }k=1, \\
1-p_{0}^{*} & \text{if }k=0.\end{cases}$$
{{< /math >}}

renders as

$$ f(k;p_{0}^{*}) = \begin{cases}p_{0}^{*} & \text{if }k=1, \\ 1-p_{0}^{*} & \text{if }k=0.\end{cases} $$

Code

Hugo Blox Builder utilises Hugo’s Markdown extension for highlighting code syntax. The code theme can be selected in the config/_default/params.yaml file.

```python
import pandas as pd
data = pd.read_csv("data.csv")
data.head()
```

renders as

import pandas as pd
data = pd.read_csv("data.csv")
data.head()

Inline Images

{{< icon name="python" >}} Python

renders as

Python

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Ideation

Hugo Blox supports a Markdown extension for mindmaps.

Simply insert a Markdown code block labelled as markmap and optionally set the height of the mindmap as shown in the example below.

Mindmaps can be created by simply writing the items as a Markdown list within the markmap code block, indenting each item to create as many sub-levels as you need:


```markmap {height="200px"}
- Hugo Modules
- Hugo Blox
- blox-plugins-netlify
- blox-plugins-netlify-cms
- blox-plugins-reveal
```

renders as

- Hugo Modules
- Hugo Blox
- blox-plugins-netlify
- blox-plugins-netlify-cms
- blox-plugins-reveal

Diagrams

Hugo Blox supports the Mermaid Markdown extension for diagrams.

An example Gantt diagram:

```mermaid
gantt
section Section
Completed :done, des1, 2014-01-06,2014-01-08
Active :active, des2, 2014-01-07, 3d
Parallel 1 : des3, after des1, 1d
Parallel 2 : des4, after des1, 1d
Parallel 3 : des5, after des3, 1d
Parallel 4 : des6, after des4, 1d
```

renders as

gantt section Section Completed :done, des1, 2014-01-06,2014-01-08 Active :active, des2, 2014-01-07, 3d Parallel 1 : des3, after des1, 1d Parallel 2 : des4, after des1, 1d Parallel 3 : des5, after des3, 1d Parallel 4 : des6, after des4, 1d

Todo lists

You can even write your todo lists in Markdown too:

- [x] Write math example
 - [x] Write diagram example
- [ ] Do something else

renders as

Write math example
- Write diagram example
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