Faculty & Supervision
Timothy Kamanu

Timothy Kamanu

Founding Mentor · School of Mathematics, UoN

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.

PhD Students

5 researchers
Samuel Mwangi Njoroge
Samuel Mwangi Njoroge
Genomic characterisation of enterotoxigenic E. coli; antimicrobial resistance; infectious disease epidemiology
Geofrey Monari Ombui
Geofrey Monari Ombui
Disease association modelling in HIV-infected patients; biostatistics
Bul Joseph Mallan Atem
Bul Joseph Mallan Atem
Machine learning for mental health disorders; data analysis and visualisation
Nyakundi Gideon Nyatuga
Nyakundi Gideon Nyatuga
Predictive ML for cancer; high-dimensional data; class imbalance; breast cancer gene expression
Owino Geofrey
Owino Geofrey
Adaptive infant cry classification; attentive CNN-RNN; multi-armed bandit feature selection

MSc Students

2 students
Mercy Chepkorir
Mercy Chepkorir
Deep learning for real-time drowning detection; computer vision; CNN architectures
Kevin Macharia Kimani
Kevin Macharia Kimani
Poisson models for road traffic mortality; statistical computing; distributed systems

Technical

3 members
Kennedy Waweru
Kennedy Waweru
Agile software development; Linux systems administration; SQL database management
Kevin Davis Wakalikha
Kevin Davis Wakalikha
Statistical computing; software development; R; Python; C++
Mark Njagi Mutahi
Mark Njagi Mutahi
Statistics; mathematics; Python programming; software development
5+PhD Students
2+MSc Students
120+Alumni Worldwide
10+Global Partners