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• Feb 2025 - Our dataset, Ndege-Zetu, with audio recordings from the Mt Kenya ecosystem is available on Dryad. See this report to the African Bird Club that funded data collection in 2017 - 2018.

Brief Bio

I am an Associate Professor at Dedan Kimathi University of Technology in Nyeri, Kenya where I teach electrical engineering and also conduct research in a number of areas including bioacoustics, IoT, machine learning and data science. Since September 2019 I have led the Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAIL). I also serve as the board chair of Data Science Africa.

Prior to joining DeKUT in 2013, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sheffield between 2011 and 2013, a PhD student at Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA between 2007 and 2011 and a BSc Student at the University of Nairobi between 2002 and 2007.

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