Fourth Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
16 - 22 November 2024
The Ravenala Attitude Hotel, Mauritius

Mr Mwavu Rogers - Participant

MUST Data Science Research Hub (DMAC Lead/Member)

Mwavu Rogers is Bsc.IT, MSc.IS, MSc.HIT, Professional Certificate (Global Health Informatics to Improve Quality of Care)-MIT, Modeling and Optimization for Machine Learning-MIT, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Global Health-KIT, Implementation Science for Health data science Projects and PhD Scholar-MUST is an innovative software developer with a diverse skill set and creative drive for software application development. I am proficient at designing and formulating test automation frameworks, writing code in various object-oriented programming languages, and feature development and implementation. I specialize in developing medical solutions that improve access to the quality of healthcare services for underserved populations. I am also adept at collecting, analyzing, and interpreting large datasets and developing new forecasting models in a variety of public and private domains. My research interests involve building large medical databases integrated with data from multiple sources and developing algorithms that predict disease progression or monitor the treatment effect of specific clinical procedures to support clinical research in low-resource settings. My academic training as an information systems developer and a systems analyst and research experience at Mbarara University of Science and Technology has provided me with a background in software application development, including mobile health technology and clinical research. I also have a strong history of teaching and mentorship. As an educator, I work with the Faculty of Computing and Informatics of MUST with a specific interest in Object-oriented programming languages, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning. I am in charge of undergraduate research in the Faculty of Computing and Informatics of MUST and also a member of the software incubations and innovations unit at MUST, where I head an undergraduate and graduate research programming group that develops technology for management, analysis, machine learning, deep learning and sharing of large health informatics, biomedical and environmental datasets. I have done consultancy work with international organizations such as UNFPA (worked as a Software Developer/Consultant in the Getin Project) and am a co-organizer of two International