Elizabeth Mutua
Lecturer at Dedan Kimathi University
Elizabeth has completed her PhD at Strathmore University School of Computing and Engineering sciences, Kenya. Her research topic is “A Deep Learning Model for Retinopathy of Prematurity Stage III Disease Diagnosis”. Her PhD was funded by the following organizations: Mawazo institute, DAAD, OWSD and Google PhD fellowships. She holds a master’s degree in IT Management from the university of Sunderland (UK), under the sponsorship of Commonwealth scholarship and a bachelor’s degree, BSC Computer Science (First Class Honors) from Kabarak University. She has been a lecturer at Dedan Kimathi University, School of Computer science and IT for the past ten years and the founder of Joasher Technologies & Consultancy, a software developing company based in Nairobi Kenya. She is an active participant of Data Science and Machine Learning conferences where she has been awarded many awards, among them Umuntu Award by Deep Learning Indaba 2023, GOMYCODE poster award 2022, Innovation throughout Africa 2020. She is passionate about mentoring young girls pursuing STEM courses and careers where the year 2016, she founded a RuralYoungTech program, which work to motivate and support girls from slums and rural areas here in Kenya. The program teaches the girls basic computer applications and software development without having them pay a fee. Girls who graduate from the program are linked with Tech companies for internship.