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6th DS-I Africa Consortium Meeting

  • Esaie Dufitimana

    Mr Esaie Dufitimana - Participant

    Research Training in Data Science for Health in Rwanda (PhD Student)

    Esaie Dufitimana is a PhD candidate in ComputerScience at the University of Rwanda, specializing in geo-computing, machine learning and their applications, with a strong focus on applying artificial intelligence to Earth observation and spatial analytics for urban systems and public health dynamics. He holds a Master's degree in Geo-information Science and Earth Observation from the University of Twente in the Netherlands.His research centers on machine learning, computer vision and multimodal machine learning, integrating satellite imagery, spatial datasets and statistical data to model urban socio-economic conditions, public health dynamics, and environmental risks.Through this work, he aims to develop scalable, data-driven solutions for urban challenges, particularly in data-constrained regions.