Dr. Ernest Mwebaze

Makerere University

Fall 2014

Dr. Ernest Mwebaze is the Executive Director of Sunbird AI, a non-profit focused on building practical AI systems for social good in Africa. He was previously a faculty member at the School of Computing and Informatics Technology, Makerere University, where he co-led the AI research lab. He holds a PhD in Machine Learning from the University of Groningen. He was an MIT-ETT Fellow in Fall 2014. He has also worked with Google AI in Ghana and the UN Pulse Lab in Kampala, focusing on applying AI to diverse challenges in agriculture, health, and utility estimation.