AHUMAIN Project
A context-specific curriculum in applied AI for East Africa, coordinated at Makerere by Dr. Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende.
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Research
Research groups and centres
Staff and students research machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing and software systems security.
Artificial Intelligence & Data Science Lab
The AI & Data Science research group under the department of computer science at Makerere University specialises in the application of artificial intelligence and data science.
The group carries out research in areas such as machine learning, computer vision and natural language processing, for example automated diagnosis of both crop and human diseases, auction design for mobile commodity markets, analysis of traffic patterns in African cities, and the use of telecoms and remote sensing data for anticipating the spread of infectious diseases.
Research areas
- Machine learning
- Computer vision
- Natural language processing
Software Systems Centre
SSC is a research group that focuses on software systems in low-resource settings. The group's main focus is to improve the quality of software systems in Africa by carrying out research in best software engineering approaches that fit the low resource settings.
The group's focus application areas include Health, Agriculture, Education and e-Governance. The group conducts software engineering research and tool development to support these areas.
Application areas
- Health
- Agriculture
- Education
- e-Governance
Flagship projects
Projects run by the department's research groups, from air quality monitoring to cloud infrastructure built for Africa.
