Meet Our Research Team
Our team members and their research interests are displayed below
Abubakhari Sserwadda, Ph.D
Role: Founder and Head of Research
Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machıne learning, Computer Vision, Bioinformatics and NLP
Ann Move Oguti, Ph.D
Role: Mentor
Interests: Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies, Intelligent Sensing Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Data Privacy.
Muyeyebwa Yasin
Role: Agriculturalist | Plant pathologist
Project:Characterising crop species and their tolerance to pests, diseases and harsh climate conditions to enhance in crop breeding
Interests: AI for Agriculture
Abubakar Mayanja, Ph.D
Role: Researcher
Interests: Machine learning, Data Analytics, Database Management.
Professional Affiliation: PhD Candidate and Teaching Assistant at KTO KARATAY UNIVERSITY / KONYA-TÜRKIYE.
Department: Computer Engineering
Ibrahim Mayanja
Role: Agricultural Researcher | Farmer Mobilizer and Trainer at National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO).
Project:USAID Feed the Future Uganda Agricultural Research Activity
Interests: Agricultural Technology
Joseph Walusimbi
Role: Researcher
Project:Transfer learning to classify and segment coffee disease infection using Uganda and Kenyan datasets.
Interest: Computer Vision, IOT, Integrating AI capabilities and embedded systems for real-world applications.
Agnes Constance Mirembe
Role: Researcher
Project: Creating Mango datasets for AI learning, Classifying Mango species with AI, detecting infected mangoes and locating infected regions on Mangoes with high precision using AI
Interests: Computer Vision, AI for Agriculture
Patrick Kayemba
Role: Graduate researcher
Project:Leveraging Al for detection and classification of cassava crop diseases.
Interests: AI for Agriculture
Rachel Anirwoth
Role: Researcher
Project:Developing technology to offer support about campus life and challenges for institutions of higher learning in Uganda
Interests: Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models
Najib Mayanja
Role: Researcher
Project:Ugandan Language Translation - AI to mitigate language barriers and promote Ugandan local languages. Machine translation and transcription for Luganda to English and vice versa
Interests: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Cultural Preservation
Desire Kawala
Role: Researcher
Project:Creating Mango datasets for AI learning, mango infection segmentation, damage classification
Interests: Computer Vision, Agricultural AI
Martha Janepher Kisakye
Role: Researcher
Project:AI for Safer Transport Systems - Developing AI solutions to improve safety and efficiency in transportation networks
Interests: Machine Learning, Deep learning, Embedded systems and lOT
Juliet Natabona
Role: Researcher
Project:GAN-based generation of synthetic microscopic sickle cell images.
Interests: Adversarial ML, Computer Vision, Data analysis
Esther Namiiro
Role: Researcher
Project:Learning to classify local banana species in Uganda with Artificial Intelligence. A noval Dataset collection and AI model development.
Interest: Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Rashid Kisejjere
Role: Researcher
Project:Leveraging Al for intelligent health recommendation systems
Interest: NLP, ML and software development
Daniel Kusemererwa
Role: Researcher
Project:Machine translation and transcription for Runyoro to English and vice versa.
Interest: Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing
Chelangat Specioza
Role: Researcher
Project:Coffee Leaf Disease Detection - Detecting and classifying coffee leaf diseases using machine learning technologies
Interest: Computer Vision, Machine Learning for Agriculture
Winnie Mutesi
Role: Researcher
Project:Detecting Malaria Parasites from blood smears using Artificial Intelligence
Interest: AI for health, Medical image processing
Patricia Ankunda
Role: Researcher
Project:Machine learning Mango datasets creation, annotation and mango species detection with AI
Interest: Computer Vision, Agricultural AI
Doreen Mukyala
Role: Researcher
Project:Creating Mango datasets for AI Tasks, Data labelling, Sorting; normal, damaged and rotten ones with AI and determining infection severity with AI
Interest: Machine Learning, Computer Vision
Arikod Charles
Role: Researcher
Project:Research in AI and ML
Interest: AI, Machine Learning
Hope Aarakit
Role: Researcher
Project:Leveraging Al to isolate infected oranges from healthy ones, to boost the quality processed orange juice in Uganda
Interest: AI for Agriculture
Joshua Benjamin Ssentongo
Role: Researcher
Project:Transfer learning to classify and segment coffee disease infection using Uganda and Kenyan datasets.
Interest:AI, ML, IoT, Embedded systems
Joanita Namuyiga
Role: Researcher
Project:Using Machine Learning for Fruit Image Classification
Interest:Computer Vision, AI, ML, IoT, Embedded systems
Edmund Ejiet
Role: Researcher
Project:Transfer learning to classify and segment coffee disease infection using Uganda and Kenyan datasets.
Interest:AI, ML, IoT, Embedded systems
