Adji Bousso Dieng is a Senegalese computer scientist and statistician working in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

Her research bridges probabilistic graphical models and deep learning to discover meaningful structure from unlabelled data.

[4] She won one of the prizes for the Senegalese Olympiad ("Concours Général") in Philosophy, was selected to participate in the 2005 Excellence camp organized by the Pathfinder Foundation for Education and Development, a non-profit founded by Cheick Modibo Diarra, and was subsequently selected to participate in a competitive exam organized for African girls in partnership between the Central Bank for West African States and the Pathfinder Foundation.

[6] She then attended Télécom ParisTech, a top French public institution of higher education and research of engineering located in Palaiseau, France.

In 2013 she graduated from Télécom ParisTech, earning her Diplome d'ingenieur (a degree in Engineering from France's Grandes Ecoles system).

[7] Dieng worked with David Blei and John Paisley to bridge Probabilistic Graphical Modeling and Deep Learning with the goal of discovering meaningful patterns from unlabelled data for applications in natural language processing, computer vision, and healthcare.

[5][6] Dieng's doctoral work has received various forms of recognition including the Google PhD Fellowship in Machine Learning,[5] the Savage Award for Applied Methodology[1] (the first Black woman to win this award since it was established in 1977), and a Rising Star in Machine Learning nomination by the University of Maryland.

[7] She left the World Bank the following summer, in 2014, after being awarded a Columbia University Dean Fellowship to start a PhD in Statistics.

[6] At Princeton University, Dieng founded the Vertaix research lab, which focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and the natural sciences.