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Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Research Projects

Research Projects in ECE Department

StaffProject TitlePartners/ Funders Role of Makerere Staff
Assoc. Prof. Dorothy Okello Open Source Design of a Decontamination Device for Personal Protective Equipment NRF, South AfricaPI
Development of an Efficacious Patient Management System for Uganda using Machine Learning Techniques. Mak RIF PI
Integrating REsilience and SUstainability in the pLanning for infrasTructure projectS in Uganda (RESULTS) Royal Academy of Engineering PI
Dr. Jonathan Serugunda Machine Learning-guided Screening of COVID-19 using Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Uganda Mak RIF PI
Andrew Katumba ICT Platform for the Pathogen Economy STI secretariatPI
Machine learning- aided screening of tuberculosis from chest X-rays Mak RIF PI
End-to-End Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data systems for targeted surveillance and management of COVID-19 and future pandemics COAST Project IDRC Co-I
A computer-aided diagnosis system for cervical cancer from colposcopic images Mak RIF PI
Building NLP Text and Speech Datasets for Low Resourced Languages in East Africa Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Google.org and Rockefeller Foundation PI
Cosmas Mwikirize Deep learning-based detection of COVID-19 from lung ultrasound images IDRC (COAST Project), MAK RIF-2PI
Automated recognition of suspicious lesions in breast ultrasound images Carnegie Corporation (SECA), UNESCO TWAS PI
A smart portable ultrasound for guidance of minimally invasive procedures Mak RIF PI
Automated Screening of Prostate Cancer from Multiparametric MRI Sequences Mak RIF PI
Edwin Mugume Urban Heat Island: Spatiotemporal Patterns and Implications for Human Thermal Comfort in Kampala Mak RIF PI
Jane Namaganda,Josephine Kakande Integration of on-grid and off-grid decentralised renewable energy systems in Uganda Mak RIF PI
Ronald Kizito A Luganda Neural Text-to-Speech system for Health promotion and Accessibility. Mak RIF PI