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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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2013
    Bsc.
    Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
    • BSc. Computer Engineering
    • Studied Fundametals of Computer and Software Engineering - Programming, Calcus, Embedded Systems. Signal Processing, etc.

Experience

  • 2024 -
    Applied Scientist Co-op
    Amazon Robotics, North Reading, MA
    • Designing algorithms for multi-agent path finding optimization in warehouse automation scenarios.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Student Member
  • Afro-heritage Graduate Student Network (AGSN) at Dartmouth College

Honors and Awards

  • 2024
    • NAB Outstanding Paper Presentation Award
  • 2016
    • Jeremiah Mpagazehe Rising Researcher Award

Academic Interests

  • Environment Monitoring
  • Path Planning
  • Localization and Mapping
  • Machine Learning and Statistics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Operations Research

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Soccer 1, Board games 2, etc.