Wasswa Shafik

Wasswa Shafik (Member, IEEE) is a Computer Scientist, Information Technologist, and Research Lab Head at the Dig Connectivity Research Laboratory (DCRLab), Kampala, Uganda. He holds 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, Islamic Republic of Iran. He has received additional training from, among others, the National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, and Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA. Broadly interested in Artificial Intelligence, Sustainability, and Smart Cities. His research focuses on developing principled computationally and statistically efficient models and algorithms for various machine learning problems in Smart Agriculture, Ecological Informatics, Computer Vision, Applied AI, Cybersecurity and Privacy, and Smart Cities. He has published hundreds of scholarly outputs including prestigious peer-reviewed journal articles, numerous IEEE International, non-IEEE Conferences proceedings, book chapters, and books. Other highlights include Reviewer/editorial support of over twelve (Scopus, Compendex (Elsevier Engineering Index), and WoS International Journals. He served in several capacities, including being as departmental support for Mathematics for Data Science, Advanced Topics in Computing, and Advanced Algorithms. Prior to this, he served as a community data officer at Pace-Uganda, research associate at TechnoServe, research assistant at PSI-Uganda, research lead at Socio-economic data center (SEDC-Uganda) and ag. managing director at Asmaah Charity Organisation.