Biosketech: Wasswa Shafik is a member of IEEE, a Computer Scientist, an Information Technologist, and a Research Director at the Dig Connectivity Research Laboratory (DCRLab), Kampala, Uganda. My research broadly examines, integrates, and focuses on developing computationally and statistically efficient models and algorithms to address complex questions about artificial intelligence, machine learning problems in Computer Vision, Smart Agriculture, Ecological Informatics, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Cybersecurity and Privacy, and Smart Computing. He attained a Bachelor in Information Technology at the Faculty of Science & Computing, Ndejje University, Kampala, Uganda; a Master in Information Technology Engineering (Computer and Communication Networks) and PhD in Computer Science at Yazd University, Yazd, Iran. More so, he received additional training from, among others, the National Institutes of Health, the US Department of Health and Human Services, and the Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA, such as Data Quality, Monitoring and Evaluation Fundamentals, and Protecting Human Research Participants. Prior to DCRLab, I served as a community data officer at Pace-Uganda, a research associate at TechnoServe, a research assistant at PSI-Uganda, a research lead at the Socio-economic Data Centre (SEDC-Uganda), and a former ag. managing director at Asmaah Charity Organisation.

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