Irene Nandutu
Honorary Research Affiliate
Eastern Region, Uganda
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Top SchoolIrene Nandutu is an applied-mathematics-trained AI researcher and educator with 11 years of experience applying machine learning to socially and environmentally impactful problems across academia and industry. She has held research roles at the University of Cape Town—most recently as an Honorary Research Affiliate after a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience and AI—and teaches as a Senior Lecturer at Busitema University in Uganda. Her background spans end-to-end engineering from web development and mobile computing to ML system design, including hands-on work at Omdena on collaborative AI projects. Combining a PhD in Applied Mathematics with a MSc in Mobile Computing, she focuses on practical AI solutions that improve health and equity in low-resource settings, often bridging research, teaching, and real-world deployment.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Computing Mobile Computing, Master of Science in Computing Mobile Computing at Uganda Technology And Management UniversityDoctor of Philosophy Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy Applied Mathematics at Rhodes University
English, Kiswahili
Github Skills (13)
text-to-speech10
speech-synthesis10
speech10
java9
speech-to-text9
multilingual9
synthesis9
djangocon8
speech-recognition7
django6
python5
machine-learning4
google-colaboratory2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Nandutu/luganda_dataset
Jan 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
Nandutu/2017.djangocon.us
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:10 pushes in 4 months
djangodjangoconpythonconference-website
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