Research Projects
Scientific Research Projects
Ongoing
Workpackage Lead (2023-2026) Applied Human Machine Intelligence in East Africa (AHUMAIN) Funded by The European Commission
Principal Investigator (2022-2023) Drone-based Agricultural Dataset for Crop Yield Estimation Funded by Lacuna Fund under the Rockefeller Foundation
Co-Principal Investigator (2022-2023) - Building Luganda Automatic Speech Recognition Models for Agriculture Funded by Google.
Co-Principal Investigator (2022-2023) - Mobile ELISA and syndromic datasets for enabling rapid machine learning automation for pen-side disease diagnostics in Livestock. Funded by Rockefeller Foundation, Google under the Lacuna Fund
Principal Investigator (2021-2022) - Using Machine Learning for Prediction of Deforestation Google AI for Social Good Awards. Funded by Google.
Principal Investigator (2021-2022) - Using Machine Learning for Localised and Targeted Agricultural Advisory to Smallholder Farmers in Uganda. Funded by Google.
Principal Investigator (2018-2022) - Sub-award contract between Cornell University and Makerere University to Support The Next Generation Cassava Breeding Phase 2. Funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Principal Investigator (2019-2022) - Predicting sweet potato sensory attributes using image analysis Funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
AI Workstream Lead (2021-2026) - Adaptive Environmental Monitoring Networks for East Africa Funded by Norhed II.
Principal Investigator (2021) - Text Mining of Social Media Luganda Data to Track Misinformation and Perceptions Related to COVID-19 Transmission Mitigation Strategies Agency. Funded by Data Science Africa Research Grant.
Principal Investigator (2020-2022) - Development of Machine Learning Datasets for Crop Pest and Disease Diagnosis based on Crop Imagery and Spectrometry Data Funded by Rockefeller Foundation under the Lacuna Fund
Co-Principal Investigator (2022-2023) - Using Machine Learning to Predict Crop Output of Small-scale farmers (MLPCO) The collaboration is between the School of Computing & lT, Makerere University, Central University of Technology South Africa and Hochschule Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Funded by BMBF
Workstream Lead (2020-2023). End-to-end AI and data systems for targeted surveillance and management of COVID-19 and future pandemics affecting Uganda (COAST). Funded by IDRC, Canada.
Co-Principal Investigator (2020-2021) - Improving Point-of-Care Learning for Prostate and Breast Cancer Imaging using Machine Learning Funded by Makerere University Research and Innovations Fund.
Principal Investigator (2021) - Text Mining of Social Media Luganda Data to Track Misinformation and Perceptions Related to COVID-19 Transmission Mitigation Strategies Agency. Funded by Data Science Africa Research Grant.
Completed
Principal Investigator (2019-2021) - Using Radio and Image Data for Crop Disease Surveillance. Funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Principal Investigator (2021) - Evaluation of the use of telehealth for cervical cancer screening in Uganda-Results Follow up. Funded by Spider.
Co-Principal Investigator (2020-2021) - Tracking and modelling trends in emergency services and treatment outcomes before and during the COVID-19 outbreak and nationwide lockdown. Funded by Makerere University Research and Innovations Fund.
Co-Principal Investigator (2020-2021) - Improving Point-of-Care Learning for Prostate Cancer Imaging using Machine Learning Funded by Makerere University Research and Innovations Fund
Principal Investigator (2020-2021) - Expert-in-the-loop Recommender System using Machine Learning for Localised Agricultural Advisory to Smallholder Farmers in a Developing Country Funded by Facebook.
Principal Investigator (2020-2021) - Support for building the Luganda Common Voice community by Mozilla Foundation
Co-Principal Investigator (2019-2020) Expert-in-the-loop Recommender System using Machine Learning for Localised Agricultural Advisory to Smallholder Farmers in a Developing Country