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Dr. Godliver Owomugisha is a Senior Lecturer and researcher at Busitema University in the Faculty of Engineering. She received her PhD in Computational Intelligence & Modeling of Crop Disease Data in Africa from the University of Groningen in 2020, an achievement that also earned her the Best PhD Thesis Award from the University of Groningen Engineering Center. This recognition was bestowed upon her due to the high scientific impact of her papers, the strong interdisciplinary engineering focus and the societal/environmental impact with the aim of helping farmers to protect crops from disease and African regions to secure food production. Dr. Owomugisha has been working with multidisciplinary collaborative research groups and currently leads Busitema University Artificial Intelligence & Interdisciplinary Research (BUAIIR) Group. BUAIIR was founded on April 20, 2021, with a clear mission to spearhead interdisciplinary research leveraging AI algorithms to address various everyday human challenges.

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Rose Nakasi is a Lecturer at Busitema University, a PhD student at Makerere University as well as a Researcher at Makerere AI Lab. My research interests are in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science and particularly in the use of these for developing improved automated tools and techniques for improved health. I have majorly worked on automated microscopy diagnosis and prediction of Malaria in low resourced but highly endemic settings.

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Prof. Florence Tushabe is an Associate Professor of Soroti University. She was first exposed to AI in 2008 while studying her PhD at the University of Groningen and fell in love with it. She first used AI techniques for traffic sign detection and has since progressed to develop AI components for skin disease diagnosis and speech-to-text recognition. Her current ongoing project is using AI for Sickle Cell detection. Prof. Tushabe has trained several students in AI techniques in the last ten years and many have spread out all over the world, enjoying their skills.

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Saphina Biira is an Associate Professor of Physics. She holds a PhD in Physics (Materials Science and Nuclear Technology) from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is currently the Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Finance and Administration) of Busitema University and she has been Heading the Directorate of Quality Assurance at Busitema University.

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Daniel Otim is a Senior Lecturer and the Dean Faculty of Engineering and Technology in Busitema University with specific expertise in soil and water conservation engineering, water resources engineering, hydrology, hydraulics, irrigation and drainage engineering. Daniel is professionally registered with the Engineers Registration Board of Uganda and he has a PhD (Agricultural Engineering) from University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, MSc Engineering degree in Irrigation Engineering from University of Florence, Italy and a BSc Engineering degree in Civil Engineering which he obtained from Makerere University, Uganda. He has designed and managed a multitude of civil engineering projects and he lectures courses in Soil and Water Engineering, Flood Mitigation and Management, Applied Hydraulics and Irrigation and Drainage System Design and Management.

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Deputy Dean of Faculty of Engineering and technology, Busitema University (since January 2021), Senior Lecturer in Polymer Textile and Industrial Engineering department (since 2017), Head of Department of Textile and Ginning Engineering (since 2014 to December 2020), Worked as lecturer (from 2012 to 2017) in the Department of Textile and Ginning Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Busitema University. I graduate from Donghua University, Shanghai, China, with PhD (2011) and Msc (2007) in Textile Engineering. I received a Bachelor of Science in Agronomy Engineering in 1999 any University of Burundi. Research focus areas: Optimization, modelling and simulation of textiles processes, and textile materials engineering with different applications. Contact: Busitema University, P.O BOX 236 Tororo, Eastern Uganda, Tel:+256785096691 , Email: nibikora6@gmail.com , nibikora.eng@busitema.ac.ug .

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Dr. Emmanuel Ahishakiye is a Lecturer and a Researcher at Kyambogo University in the School of Computing and Information Science, Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. Emmanuel’s research interests are in the Theory of Machine Learning Algorithms, and in the Design of Models that are simple to Use and Efficient especially for local Settings. Emmanuel’s general research area is Artificial Intelligence for Development (AI4D).

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