Lighton Phiri gave a talk at the 2023 DRGS Research Seed Grant symposium that was held in Lusaka, Zambia between December 11–12, 2023.
Lighton Phiri gave a talk at the 4th African Human Computer Interaction Conference (AfriCHI 2023) conference that was held in East London, South Africa betw
We are excited to have two (2) additional members join the lab, bringing the total number of new 2023 members in 2023 to six (6). We have a Key Expert---Dr. Rabson Mbewe---and an MSc in Computer Science student---Malaizyo Muzumala.
A one-day workshop was held at the University Teaching Hospitals in Lusaka Zambia on March 6, 2023 to formally launch the “Exploring the Use of Enterprise Medical Imaging (EMI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Efficient and Effective Radiological Workflows in Public Health Facilities in Zambia” project.
We are excited to have four (4) postgraduate students join the lab in 2023. All the new students will either be supervised or co-supervised by faculty staff associated with the lab.
The year 2022 was an extremely difficult period as we were transitioning from a two-year-long period marred by COVID-19 restrictions. That being said, we have some success stories.
A significant amount of work in the lab is performed by students---both research assistants and postgraduate research students---and as such, we constantly recruit talented students. Correspondingly, we have senior students graduate every year.
Google Research has awarded us a very generous research grant, as part of their Award for Inclusion Research (AIR) Program [1]. The grant has been awarded to support our research project titled “Exploring the Use of Enterprise Medical Imaging and Artificial Intelligence for Efficient and Effective Radiological Workflows in Public Health Facilities in Zambia”.
Lighton Phiri has been appointed to serve a two (2) year term, from January 2022 until December 2023, as a member of the Board of Directors [1] for Networked Digital Library Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) [2]. The Board of Directors draws memberships from academics and professionals from around the world and is currently chaired by Prof.
Ernest gave a talk at the 2022 IST-Africa (IST-Africa 2022) conference that was held virtually between May 16–20, 2022.
