Ernest Mwebaze
Executive Director at Sunbird AI
Kampala, Central Region, Uganda
Summary
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Top SchoolErnest Mwebaze is an AI researcher and technology leader with 15 years of experience applying machine learning, computer vision and data science to high-impact problems in developing countries. He currently leads Sunbird AI as Executive Director and Strategy Lead, building practical AI systems for social good informed by policy and field realities. His background spans academia and industry—PhD-trained in AI, former Google research scientist, MIT visiting fellow, and long-time lecturer—giving him a rare mix of rigorous research chops and hands-on deployment experience. Ernest has delivered ICT solutions for healthcare and infectious disease modeling in Africa and has a track record of turning computational ideas into cost-effective, locally appropriate systems. He’s equally comfortable mentoring students and negotiating policy implications of AI, and is known for experimenting with AI and data tools to bridge research and real-world impact.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning at University of GroningenMSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Makerere University
Github Skills (6)
language-processing3
data-science2
corpus2
nlp1
parallel1
natural-language-processing1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
emwebaze/dsa2018materials
May 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
icassava/fgvcx-icassava
Feb 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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