Dr William Wasswa

Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering at Mbarara University of Science and Technology

Dr. Wasswa William is a Biomedical engineer, Bioinformatics Expert and an AI leader. He is a senior lecturer and Head of the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering at Mbarara University of Science and Technology. He leads the Advanced Medical Imaging and Artificial Intelligence Lab. He is a member of various Artificial Intelligence Technical Committees including the WHO/ITU Artificial Intelligence for Health (AI4H), the African Union High-Level Panel on Emerging Technologies (APET) and the Applied Malaria Modelling Network (AMMNet). Dr William is the CEO and Co-founder of Global Auto Systems LTD Uganda. He is very interested in digital health innovations that provide universal health coverage, especially reaching the unreached. He is an AI leader and an Innovations Ecosystems builder who has greatly contributed to the AI and innovation ecosystem in Africa. He has developed several innovations including PapsAI, a low-cost microscope slide scanner for automated diagnosis and classification of cervical cancer from pap-smear images; and ONCIMS -a data-driven digital Oncology platform for cancer diagnosis and management in resource-constrained settings. He is an advocate for the uptake of Emerging Technologies in the 4th Industrial Revolution for Africa's Social Economic Transformation.