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Below is the highlights of my career impact in academia and industry. You can download the PDF version from the top right corner of this page.
General Information
Full Name | Kizito Masaba |
Date of Birth | 01st November 1990 |
Languages | English |
Education
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2024 PhD
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH USA - Computer Science (Robotics)
- Multirobot Active Learning for Environment Monitoring
- Scalable methods for Resource-constrained Adaptive Sampling
- My PhD Thesis explores low cost approaches for automating information gathering for various robotic applications, such as environment monitoring, Search and Research operations,etc.
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2016 MSc.
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA - MSc. Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Studied Renewable Energy generation methods, Embedded Systems, Machine Learning and Artifical Intelligence.
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2013 Bsc.
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda - BSc. Computer Engineering
- Studied Fundametals of Computer and Software Engineering - Programming, Calcus, Embedded Systems. Signal Processing, etc.
Experience
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2024 - Applied Scientist Co-op
Amazon Robotics, North Reading, MA - Designing algorithms for multi-agent path finding optimization in warehouse automation scenarios.
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2017 - 2017 Software Engineer
Pivot Access, Kigali Rwanda - Enhanced the existing prepaid electric meter token generation system in collaboration with the engineering team. This update incorporated cutting-edge token generation technology and adhered to the latest industry standards. As a result, our company achieved compliance with token generation standards and significantly reduced token generation latency.
- Pivot Access specializes in prepaid utility bill payments across Rwanda with software systems for purchasing tokens for prepaid electric meters.
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2013-2015 Mobile Applications Developer
True African - Designed and implemented Uganda's first-ever mobile banking application for Standard Chartered Bank together with the IT team. This initiative successfully facilitated the seamless transition of the bank's USSD customers to mobile applications, underscoring my contributions to enhancing the customer experience.
- True African is a prominent value added service provider of many corporations in East Africa.
Memberships
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National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
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Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Student Member
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Afro-heritage Graduate Student Network (AGSN) at Dartmouth College
Honors and Awards
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2024 - NAB Outstanding Paper Presentation Award
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2016 - Jeremiah Mpagazehe Rising Researcher Award
Academic Interests
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Environment Monitoring
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Path Planning
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Localization and Mapping
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Machine Learning and Statistics
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Artificial Intelligence
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Operations Research
Other Interests
- Hobbies: Soccer 1, Board games 2, etc.