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

Dr Fred Kaggwa - Participant

MUST Data Science Research Hub (DMAC Lead/Member)

Dr. ir. Fred Kaggwa; holds a PhD in Computing and serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing and Informatics at Mbarara University of Science and Technology. Fred also doubles as the Chief Quality Assurance Officer with an experience of 16 years in the quality assurance matters of the university. Dr. Kaggwa's research interests are in Data Science for healthcare (including big data security), Biometrics, Computer/Network Security, Legal, Social and Ethical Issues in Computing as well as Quality Assurance in Higher Education. Fred supports the University Computing Services Unit to not only embrace new technologies, but also have them securely operate. He was delighted to be among the initiators of the data science research group which is at its early development stages for both staff and students. This research group has been started to bridge the data science gap that has existed for long at the university. Fred has a strong history of teaching computer security related courses, modeling and simulation and post graduate supervision/ mentorship. Since 2007, he has taught over 1000 undergraduate Information technology, Computer Science and Computer Engineering students. 12 Masters students and 4 PhD student completed