Henry Mutegeki

Henry Mutegeki contributes to System administration and Software development at the ACE. He is actively involved in tech and system support for Bioinformatics students and researchers needing to access High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster which involves configuration, monitoring and maintenance of the HPC. Henry also contributes to important health projects at the ACE, such as developing the Epilepsy SMART App to improve adherence among epileptic adolescents and setting up the Sickle Cell Pan-African Database (SPARCO), a comprehensive registry improving healthcare for sickle cell patients in Uganda. He has 4+ years of software development experience having worked with cloud computing technologies like Kubernetes & Docker and programming languages like Python(Flask, Django) to build robust REST APIs, build Data science & Machine Learning pipelines. He holds a BSc. in Software Engineering from Makerere University(Hons, 2022) and is currently pursuing a masters degree in Computer science at Makerere. His key research interests lie at the intersection of Technology and its application in the health domain including: AI for Health, AI fairness and Model Explainability.