Meet Our Research Team

Our team members and their research interests are displayed below

Dr Abubakhari

Abubakhari Sserwadda, Ph.D

Role: Founder and Head of Research

Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machıne learning, Computer Vision, Bioinformatics and NLP

Dr.Ann Move Oguti

Ann Move Oguti, Ph.D

Role: Mentor

Interests: Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies, Intelligent Sensing Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Data Privacy.

Mr Muyeyebwa Yasin

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

Dr.Abubakar Mayanja

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

Mr.Ibrahim Mayanja

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

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

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

Patrick Kayemba

Role: Graduate researcher

Project:Leveraging Al for detection and classification of cassava crop diseases.

Interests: AI for Agriculture

Rachel Anirwoth

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

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

Desire Kawala

Role: Researcher

Project:Creating Mango datasets for AI learning, mango infection segmentation, damage classification

Interests: Computer Vision, Agricultural AI

Martha Janepher Kisakye

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

Juliet Natabona

Role: Researcher

Project:GAN-based generation of synthetic microscopic sickle cell images.

Interests: Adversarial ML, Computer Vision, Data analysis

Esther Namiiro

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

Rashid Kisejjere

Role: Researcher

Project:Leveraging Al for intelligent health recommendation systems

Interest: NLP, ML and software development

Daniel Kusemererwa

Daniel Kusemererwa

Role: Researcher

Project:Machine translation and transcription for Runyoro to English and vice versa.

Interest: Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing

Chelangat Specioza

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

Winnie Mutesi

Role: Researcher

Project:Detecting Malaria Parasites from blood smears using Artificial Intelligence

Interest: AI for health, Medical image processing

Patricia Ankunda

Patricia Ankunda

Role: Researcher

Project:Machine learning Mango datasets creation, annotation and mango species detection with AI

Interest: Computer Vision, Agricultural AI

Doreen Mukyala

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

Arikod Charles

Role: Researcher

Project:Research in AI and ML

Interest: AI, Machine Learning

Hope Aarakit

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

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

Joanita Namuyiga

Role: Researcher

Project:Using Machine Learning for Fruit Image Classification

Interest:Computer Vision, AI, ML, IoT, Embedded systems

Edmund Ejiet

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