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Second Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
29 October -2 November 2022

Recorded sessions

  • Dr Daudi Jjingo (Participant)

    Dr. Daudi Jjingo is a member of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Makerere University where he is faculty in the department of Computer Science. He is Principal Investigator of the NIH/Fogarty Bioinformatics training grant in Uganda and serves as the Director of the African Center of Excellence (ACE) in bioinformatics and data intensive sciences within the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI). The center's mandate involves providing cutting-edge computational platforms for data intensive biomedical research. Dr. Jjingo earned his PhD in Bioinformatics as a Fulbright Scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta USA, preceded by an MSc in Bioinformatics from the University of Leeds, UK and a BSc in Biochemistry from Makerere University, Uganda. He holds research interests HIV and cancer genomics as well as the general application of Artificial Intelligence to biomedical research.