He is (as at July 2024) Associate Professor and Head of Data Science at the MRC Unit based at Banjul, The Gambia.
[9][10] He joined the University of Edinburgh, where his PhD investigated compressed sensing and was supervised by Jared Tanner [Wikidata].
[13][14] Between 2012 and 2014 Bah was a postdoctoral researcher at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, where he continued his investigations into compressed sensing.
[15] In 2014 Bah joined the University of Texas at Austin, where he worked on signal processing, machine learning and sampling strategies in high-dimensional data.
[23] He holds a joint position at Stellenbosch University, where he works on information theory and deep learning.