Under my leadership, the IoT-ra lab developed a number of innovative solutions including: i) a low-cost automatic weather station; ii) weather information dissemination systems; iii) weather data repositories and weather forecast models. These solutions were not only deployed in Uganda (in partnership with the Uganda National Meteorological Authority) but also in Tanzania, South Sudan, Ghana and Nigeria. I have also undertaken multi-disciplinary studies with colleagues from the Health, Agriculture and Electrical Engineering disciplines. I am currently the Principal Investigator of a 5-year multi-disciplinary international research project studying technologies for pollinator protection and insect pest control (www.ademnea.net). Our first key innovation in this study is a smart bee monitor.
Internet-of-things for developing regions, ICT4Development, Communications Network Protocol Design, internet and telecommunication policies, Quality of Service, Quality of Experience and Systems Security.
2021 - 2025
The IOT-ra lab, which I lead won a 5-year grant (worth 9M NoK) from NORAD to undertake a study “Adaptive Environmental Monitoring Network for East Africa (AdEMNEA)” www.ademnea.net
2020 - 2021
I was a co-Principal Investigator of 1-year research grant (worth UGX 157,494,800) from Government of Uganda through the Research and Innovations Fund for a project entitled “Towards a food secure Uganda under a changing climate.”
2019 - 2020
I was the Principal Investigator of 1-year research grant (worth UGX 213,700,000) from Government of Uganda through the Research and Innovations Fund for a project entitled “Tailoring climate services for improved agricultural production (LOCATE).”
Nov 2013 - Dec 2020
I was the Principal Investigator of a 7-year research grant (worth 20M NoK) from NORAD for a project entitled “WIMEA-ICT: improving Weather Information Management in East Africa for effective service provision through the application of suitable ICTs” www.wimea-ict.net
Dec 2018 – Aug 2020
I was the Principal Investigator of a 2-year research grant (worth 23K GBP) from UK’s GCRF for a project entitled “IMAgINe: ICT enabled Multi-sectorial Approach to weather Information Management
March 2014
I won a travel grant to participate in the School on Applications of Open Spectrum and White spaces Technologies held at ICTP, Trieste, Italy.
2013
Nov 2013: I was on the research team of a 5-year research grant (worth 6M NoK) from NORAD for a project entitled “HI-TRAIN: Health Informatics Training in East Africa”
July 2013: I won a travel grant to participate in the 1st African Internet Governance School held in Durban, South Africa.
2012
Dec 2012: My research team won a NORAD seed grant (worth 300K NoK) entitled "Improving East Africa's Weather Information Management through the Application of Suitable ICTs".
Nov 2012: I won an Internet Society Fellowship to participate in the 85th Internet Engineering Taskforce Meeting that took place in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Sept 2012: I won a United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs (UN-OOSA)/ International Astronautical Federation (IAF) award to present at the 22nd UN/IAF Workshop on “Space Technologies Applied to the Needs of Humanity” in Naples, Italy.
Aug 2012: I won a Google conference award to present at the African Conference of Software Engineering and Applied Computing (ACSEAC) 2012 in Gabarone, Botswana.
May 2012: I was on the research team that won a research grant from the Swedish Programme for ICT in Developing Regions (SPIDER) undertaking a study “Field test of the AGLARBRI Drug Management Application.”
Under Supervision
Mary Nsabagwa … “Towards A Robust Wireless Sensor Network-Based Automatic Weather Station ”
Ruth Mbabazi-Mutebi ... “Application Of Persuasive Technology In Reducing Electricity Theft: A Case Of Electricity Theft In Kampala, Uganda”
On going
Bernard Muwonge, PhD. “ A Cross-layer Algorithm for Improved Power Efficiency in Cognitive Radio Wireless Sensor Networks”
Masabo Emmanuel, PhD. “An Integrated Feature Extraction Approach for Detecting Polymorphic Malware Using Machine Learning”
Kondela Emmanuel, PhD. "towards reliable delivery of weather data from remote autonomous weather stations to the internet"
Ephrance Eunice Namugenyi, PhD. Ongoing, “Adaptive Network Architecture for Sensor Data Acquisition”
Khemis Ben, PhD. Ongoing, “Algorithms and Design for Mobile Network Gateway Nodes”
Yiga Samuel, MSc. Ongoing, MSc. DCSE Ongoing, “Water Level Sensing”
David Tugume, MSc. DCSE Ongoing, “Detection and prediction of faults in the LoRaWAN network architecture while maximizing quality of service parameters.”
Kwesiga Shamiru, MSc. DCSE Ongoing, “Analysis of the effect of interference on packet dropping in LoRaWAN Technology.”
Doreen Tuheirwe, PhD. “Domain Engineering for Weather Information Services”
Ruth Mbabazi Mutebi, PhD. “Consumer-Centric Energy Informatics System for dealing with Electricity Theft in Kampala, Uganda”
Graduated in 2022
Ruth Mbabazi Mutebi, PhD., “Consumer-Centric Energy Informatics System for dealing with Electricity Theft in Kampala, Uganda”,
Graduated in 2021
Mary Nsabagwa, Ph. D. CS, “Design Techniques for a Robust Wireless Sensor Network-Based Automatic Weather Station Network”
Bernard Muwonge, PhD., “A Cross-layer Algorithm for Improved Power Efficiency in Cognitive Radio Wireless Sensor Networks”
Graduated in 2020
Dennis Kaburu, Ph.D. CS, “A Framework for Continuous User Authentication Using Sylometry”
Masabo Emmanuel, Ph.D. CS, “An Integrated Feature Extraction Approach for Detecting Polymorphic Malware Using Machine Learning”
Graduated in 2019
Susan Serumaga, MSc. DCSE “Incremental Delaunay Triangulation Coverage Hole Detection and Healing Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks ”.
Graduated in 2018
Deborah Namata, MSc. DCSE, “A User Centric Mobile Broad Band Monitoring Tool”.
Graduated in 2016
Agona Samuel, MSc. DCSE
ISABIRYE Gerald, MSc. DCSE
Graduated in 2015
Micheal Tusingwire, MSc. DCSE
Collins Mwesigwa, MSc. DCSE
Johnson Mpeirwe, MSc. DCSE
AGOI Geoffrey, MSc. DCSE
Graduated in 2012
Fote Kamanyi Antonia, MSc. DCSE
MILE Anthony Muli, MSc. DCSE
Graduated in 2011
Bongomin Charles Anyek, MSc. DCSE
Maxwell Omwenga, MSc. DCSE
Graduated in 2010
Alex Mwebaze Akatujuna , MSc. DCSE
Graduated in 2009
Bernard Muwonge Ssajabbi, MSc. DCSE