Benjamin Rosman is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Wits University, where he runs the Robotics, Autonomous Intelligence and Learning (RAIL) Laboratory and is the Director of the Machine Intelligence and Neural Discovery (MIND) Institute. He is also the Chief Science Officer for Lelapa AI. He received his Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh in the UK in 2014. He was a founder of the Deep Learning Indaba machine learning summer school, which now has satellite events in 47 African countries. He was made a 2024 National Geographic Explorer, a 2022 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, was a 2017 recipient of a Google Faculty Research Award in machine learning, and a 2021 recipient of a Google Africa Research Award. In 2020, he was made a Senior Member of the IEEE.