Wasswa Shafik

Abu Asmaah (Kunya), the Team Lead at the Dig Connectivity Research Laboratory (DCRLab), Kampala, Uganda, and also an IEEE member.

I received my Master in Information Technology Engineering (minor: Computer and Communication Networks), advised by Prof. Seyed Mojtaba Matinkhah and Prof. Mohammad Ghasemzadeh from the Computer Engineering Department at Yazd University, Islamic Republic of Iran. Before that, I joined the Faculty of Science & Computing, Ndejje University, Kampala, Uganda, and obtained a Bachelor in Information Technology. In a distant and happy land, I 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 starting my PhD, I worked a few years as a community data officer at Pace-Uganda, a research associate at TechnoServe and Mercy Corps, a research assistant and data clerk at PSI-Uganda, a research lead at the Socio-economic Data Centre (SEDC-Uganda), and a former ag. managing director at Asmaah Charity Organisation.

My research broadly focuses on the designing and developing lightweight, computationally and statistically efficient models to address complex and pressing concerns of our time, including health, agriculture, and ecology specific to: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Neural Networks, Internet of Things with application  to Smart Agriculture, Digital Health and Ecological Informatics.

Warning: I regularly look for people to hire to work with us at DCRLab as Ph.D. students, engineers, pre-docs, permanent researchers: do not hesitate to reach out, just in case! Please note that I receive a huge amount of requests. If I do not reply to your email, don't feel bad, I do my best.

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