Dr Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende

Theme Lead – Vulnerable Populations, Artificial Intelligence

Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende (PhD) is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and also heads the Makerere Artificial Intelligence Lab. Her research interests are in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Responsible AI. Currently, she is carrying out research in several areas including application of computer vision, machine learning and natural language processing in the areas of health and agriculture in the developing world. Through the Makerere Artificial Intelligence lab, she has been able to provide an environment to nurture and build institutional data science research training capacity for the masters, PhD and postdoc researchers. She has supervised over 20 graduate students (completed and ongoing) including postdocs, PhD, and Masters from Computer Science, Software Engineering and Information systems.