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Dr. Timothy Kamanu

DASCLAB Director & Principal Investigator

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Dr. Timothy Kamanu is an Associate Professor at the School of Mathematics, University of Nairobi, and the founding Director of DASCLAB. With over 15 years of research experience spanning computational statistics, biostatistics, machine learning, and scientific computing, he has led transformative projects across health, agriculture, and financial sectors in Africa.

articleSelected Publications

2024
Bayesian Spatial Modelling of Road Traffic Accidents in Nairobi County
Accident Analysis & Prevention · Journal
2024
Transfer Learning for Malaria Detection in Blood Smear Images
PLOS Computational Biology · Journal
2023
Fine-Tuning XLM-R for Kiswahili Sentiment Analysis
ACL Workshop on African NLP · Conference
2023
Ensemble Methods for Crop Yield Prediction in East Africa
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · Journal
2023
Competing Risks Analysis for TB/HIV Co-infection Outcomes
BMC Infectious Diseases · Journal
2022
microRNA Signature Discovery in Colorectal Cancer
Bioinformatics · Journal
2022
Poverty Mapping via Cluster Analysis of DHS Survey Data
World Development · Journal
2021
Geospatial Analysis of Air Quality in Nairobi Using IoT Sensors
Environmental Science & Technology · Journal

scienceResearch Projects

MicroRNA Biomarker Discovery in Breast Cancer
BioinformaticsActive2024
Trade Surveillance using Network Analysis
FinanceCompleted2023
African NLP Benchmark Dataset
NLPActive2024

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