Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende is a senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Makerere University. She heads the Makerere Artificial Intelligence Lab, a research lab in the Department of Computer Science. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. Her research interests are using Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, and Responsible AI in health and agriculture.
Currently, she is the co-chair for the Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa (DS-I Africa) initiative Steering Committee, a member of the Educational Advisory Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery, a board member at Data Science Africa, a member of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence (RAIN) Africa Network and a founding Member of the Open for Good Alliance Inclusive AI Commons with Localized Data by FAIR Forward and GIZ and the ARUA - The Guild Cluster of Research Excellence Addressing Global and African Challenges through Methods from Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Theoretical and Computational Thinking.
