Research

My core research interest is in raising the abstraction level of mobile software development through design and implementation of programming languages.I am also very enthusiastic about the use of mobile phone technology in the developing world.

I am currently interested in the following research areas:

• Programming language engineering (I strive to address limitations of programming "which force the programmer to think like the computer rather than having the computer think more like the programmer")
  

• Mobile and pervasive computing

• Context-aware, reactive systems and context-driven interactions
  

• Distributed systems

• Software security

• Cloud computing

You can find more about my publications here. My PhD research was about programming language abstractions for reactive context-aware applications.

I am a member of the Software and Enterprise Engineering Research Group of Makerere University. Previously, I was a member of the Software Languages Lab at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

• AirQo project: The low-cost and participatory air pollution monitoring (AirQo) project aims to respond to the degrading air quality challenge, which is an emerging health threat in Africa. We designed and developed AirQo devices, capable of measuring particulate matter and other major pollutants as well as environmental factors such as temperature, humidity and location. AirQo monitors have been deployed both at static locations and motor bikes (locally known as boda-boda) in Kampala city. Deploying the AirQo devices on a boda-boda allows data collection from various areas that the bodas moves to. We believe that the results from this exercise will also provide insights into the air pollution exposure by the boda-boda riders as well as passengers. We are working closely with the boda-riders in Kampala suburbs. The bodas in Kampala are re-known to move almost everywhere and thus provides more spatial coverage that the static/fixed AirQo devices.
  

• Socomot project: Socomot promises to deliver smart decision-making to farmers through real-time soil conditions monitoring. Specifically this project aims to: (1) scale-up the development and deployment of smart devices for collecting data about soil conditions. (2) develop a software platform enriched with big data analytics for soil conditions to facilitate smart and evidence-based decision-making for farmers. (3) create and provide personalized information services about soil conditions that can enable optimized returns on agro-inputs and effective utilization of resources.
  
  

• BRIGHT project: The BRIGHT project aims at contributing towards sustainable socio-economic growth in Uganda through capacity building in Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) research. Ten (10) PhD students within the areas of digital innovation, software engineering and entrepreneurship will be trained through a research partnership between Makerere University and Mbarara University of Science and Technology, University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology of Sweden. The objectives of the BRIGHT project are three-fold: (1) To increase the number of staff with PhD training in ICT in Uganda (2) To increase the number ICT innovations and entrepreneurs to facilitate social-economic growth in Uganda (3) To improve the culture of developing ICT solutions that are designed for scalability and sustainability yet tailored to the local context. The project is supported by Sida.
  
  

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