Dr Daudi Jjingo

Daudi is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Makerere University and serves as the Director of the African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data-Intensive Sciences (ACE), whose mandate involves providing cutting-edge computational platforms (hardware, software and research expertise) for biomedical research. As a Principal Investigator of various research and training grants that apply bioinformatics, data science and Large Language Models (LLMs), his research interests cut across human genomics, cancer genomics and anti-microbial drug resistance. He earned his Ph.D. in bioinformatics as a Fulbright Scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta USA, preceded by an MSc in bioinformatics and computational biology from the University of Leeds, UK, and a BSc in biochemistry from Makerere University, Uganda. He previously served as a bioinformatics consultant for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta.