Rose Dieng-Kuntz

Rose Dieng-Kuntz was a pioneering Senegalese computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence and one of the first researchers to work on the semantic web. She became the first African woman admitted to and graduating from France's École Polytechnique, breaking barriers in a field largely inaccessible to women and African scholars at the time. Her groundbreaking contributions to AI, knowledge management, and the semantic web earned her international recognition, including the Joliot-Curie Feminist Prize in 2005.