Empowering Medical Equipment Sustainability in Low-Resource Settings: An AI-Powered Diagnostic and Support Platform for Biomedical Technicians

Authors: Bernes Lorier Atabonfack, Ahmed Tahiru Issah, Mohammed Hardi Abdul Baaki, Clemence Ingabire, Tolulope Olusuyi, Maruf Adewole, Udunna C. Anazodo, and Timothy X Brown

MICCAI 2025

Reassessing Glioma Segmentation Strategies: nnU-Net as a Strong Baseline on Limited Sub-Saharan MRI Data

Authors: Uwimana Lowami, Andrew Blayama Stephen, Confidence Raymond, Dong Zhang, Maruf Adewole, Udunna C Anazodo, Mehmet Kurt, Damilare Olatunji, and Bernes Lorier Atabonfack

MICCAI 2025

A Machine Learning Approach for Mental Health Conditions and Cyberbullying Detection from Social Media (Oral)

Authors: Edward Ajayi, Martha Kachweka, Mawuli Deku, Emily Aiken

AAAI 2026 (AI in Medicine and Healthcare)

Eyes and Ears: Automated Annotation of Audio Data Using Computer Vision

Authors: Galane Basha Namomsa, Alex Gichamba, Brian Ebiyau, João Barros

IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP)

Strategic PMU Deployment for Grid Observability and Stability: First Deployment in Rwanda

Authors: Rock Agon, Jasper Kwizera, Dieudonne Iradukunda, Ateny Aguto, Barry Rawn

IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT)

Automated and Accessible Leukemia Detection from Microscopic Blood Films Using YOLO and Vision Transformers

Authors: Andrew Blayama Stephen, Miracle James Olotuche, Mona Aman, Azizuddin Ahmed Biyabani

IEEE AFRICON Conference 2025

Mapping Socioeconomic Air Quality Disparities in Rwanda Using Sentinel-5P TROPOMI Data in Google Earth Engine (Publication)

Authors: Baimam Boukar Jean Jacques, Kamikazi Ndayizeye Raissa, Umubyeyi Evelyne, Bertinn Ndahayo Singizwa, Emily Aiken

Int. Conf. on Machine Intelligence for GeoAnalytics and Remote Sensing (MIGARS)

Phasor Measurement Integration in Wireless Power Transfer Systems for Grid Applications

Authors: Chisom Ogbogu, Kipngeno Koech, Jesse Thornburg

IEEE MTT-S/AP-S Int. Microwave and Antennas Symposium (IMAS)

Modeling of Hybrid Geothermal-Solar PV Power Generation in Uganda

Authors: Akabway Rurangwa, Jesse Thornburg

IEEE Southern Power Electronics Conference (SPEC 2025)

KG-Rank-Plus: Enhancing LLM-Based Medical Question Answering with Multi-Hop Knowledge Graph Traversal and Ranking Techniques

Authors: Ahmed Tahiru Issah, Idaya Seidu, Emmanuel Amankwaa Adjei, Mona Aman, Azizuddin Ahmed Biyabani

IEEE AFRICON Conference 2025

Techno-Economic Analysis of Solar PV and Grid Integration for Electric Vehicle DC Fast Charging in Uganda

Authors: Ian Ahereza, Jesse Thornburg

IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo – Asia Pacific (ITEC-AP)

TSANet: Unified Face Attack Detection via Triplet Embedding and Soft ACER Loss

Authors: Gabrial Zencha Ashungafac, Miracle James Oloutuche, Mukar Wepngong Eleanor, Blessed Guda, Assane Gueye, Moise Busogi

IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision

Evaluating User Experience of Government and E-Government Services: A technology-neutral ecosystem lens

Authors: Timothy Brown, David Nkundineza

Africhi '25: 5th Biennial African Human Computer Interaction Conference

Improving SSVEP BCI Spellers with Data Augmentation and Language Models

Authors: Joseph Zhang, Ruiming Zhang, Kipngeno Koech, David Hill, Kateryna Shapovalenko

International Conference on Digital Signal Processing

Optimizing healthcare facility distribution in Rwanda: a data-driven approach

Authors: Brandone Fonya, Nchofon Tagha, Michaella Rugumbira, Irene Busah, Emily Aiken

European Journal of Public Health (Journal)

Smart Grid Fault Mitigation and Cybersecurity with Wide-Area Measurement Systems: A Review

Authors: Chisom E. Ogbogu, Jesse Thornburg and Samuel O. Okozi

Energies (Journal)

Simulation of PEM Electrolyzer Power Management with Renewable Generation in Owerri, Nigeria

Authors: MacMatthew C. Ahaotu, Chisom E. Ogbogu, Jesse Thornburg and Isdore Onyema Akwukwaegbu

Energies (Journal)

Ehugbo Ka! Advancing Machine Translation for the Low-Resource Ehugbo Language through Parallel Corpus Development.

Authors: Ukachi Agnes Eze-Mbey, Uloma Calista Eze-Mbey, Ololade Anjuwon

Deep Learning Indaba (DLI) 2025 (Poster)

Targeting the Right Farmer: Predictive Analytics for Agricultural Input Subsidy Allocation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Authors: Nasiru Iliya

Deep Learning Indaba (DLI) 2025 (Poster)

Accelerating Medical Image annotation: A Model-Assisted Labeling pipeline leveraging Yolov8 and SAM

Authors: Paul Okwija Mugume, Andrew Katumba, Ronald Omoding

Deep Learning Indaba (DLI) 2025 (Poster)

Retrieval with Multiple Query Vectors through Anomalous Pattern Detection (Poster)

Authors: Baimam Boukar Jean Jacques

AAAI 2026 Workshop on New Frontiers in Information Retrieval (Poster)

Bridging the Gap in Malaria Diagnostics: An Attention-Centric YOLO Framework with Species-Specific Augmentation for Tiny Parasite Detection in Low-Resource Settings (Poster)

Authors: Ahmed Tahiru Issah, Carine Mukamakuza

AAAI 2026 (AI in Medicine and Healthcare)

A Systematic Comparison of Data Representations for Transformer-Based ECG Arrhythmia Classification (Poster)

Authors: Mona Aman, Godbright Nixon Uiso, Carine Mukamakuza

AAAI 2026 (AI in Medicine and Healthcare)

Architecture-Aware Explainability in ECG Analysis: A Case Study of Aortic Stenosis Detection with ResNet18, LSTM, and ViT-MAE ECG (Poster)

Authors: Chol Buol, Julius Zannu, Carine Mukamakuza, Olatunji Damilare Emmanuel, Vijayakumar Bhagavatula

AAAI 2026 (AI in Medicine and Healthcare)

Humidity Inference with Geographic Features and Machine Learning for Enhanced Contrail Prediction for African Airspace (Poster)

Authors: Alice Mugengano, Baimam Boukar Jean Jacques, Jonathan Kayizzi, Moise Busogi

Int. Conf. on Machine Intelligence for GeoAnalytics and Remote Sensing (MIGARS)

Particle Swarm Optimization for Dispatch Scheduling of Renewable Energy in Rwanda (Poster)

Authors: Chisom Ogbogu, Marion Kipsang, Jesse Thornburg

IEEE PES/IAS PowerAfrica

Computer-assisted cyclist road safety warning system (Poster)

Authors: Nthabiseng Thema

NEURIPS Women in Machine Learning

When Endangered Voices Speak: Building the First Ehugbo Dialect Audio Dataset Through Grassroots Collaboration (Poster)

Authors: Ukachi Agnes Eze-Mbey

NEURIPS Women in Machine Learning

Unmasking COVID-19 Vulnerability in Nigeria: Mapping Risks Beyond Urban Hotspots (Poster)

Authors: Sheila Wafula, Blessed Madukoma

NEURIPS Women in Machine Learning

Beyond Data Scarcity: Quality Barriers to Trustworthy AI in Low-Resource Medical Imaging (Poster)

Authors: Oyindamola Boluwatife Olatunji

NEURIPS Women in Machine Learning