I’m an AI researcher and builder based in Kampala, Uganda, focused on developing practical, locally relevant AI solutions for healthcare. My work sits at the intersection of machine learning, clinical research, AI4 Social GoodAI in Health and real-world deployment, with a strong emphasis on underserved populations and female health.
I care about building systems that don’t just perform well in papers—but actually work where they are needed most.
My work spans both Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV), applied to healthcare challenges in low-resource settings.
Over the past few years, I have worked on:
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Speech & Language AI
- Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for African languages
- Building datasets and evaluation pipelines for low-resource speech systems
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Computer Vision for Healthcare
- Cervical cancer risk prediction from clinical data and or medical images
- TB prediction using hybrid models (clinical + imaging data)
- Ultrasound and maternal health imaging research
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Clinical & Predictive Modeling
- TB drug resistance risk and treatment outcome prediction models
- Maternal health risk modelling
- Mental health-related AI systems
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Document AI & Local Language Processing
- OCR systems for Luganda
- Data extraction pipelines tailored for local contexts
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Data & Infrastructure
- Building and curating datasets for African healthcare use cases
- Designing reproducible ML pipelines and evaluation systems
- Deploying models using Docker and production-ready workflows
My current focus is on:
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AI for Female Health
- Cervical cancer
- Maternal health
- Mental Health
- Early risk detection systems
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Explainable & Trustworthy AI (XAI)
- Making models interpretable for clinicians
- Bridging the gap between ML outputs and clinical decision-making
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Localized AI Systems
- Adapting models to African datasets and realities
- Moving beyond “imported AI” to context-aware solutions
- Languages: Python
- Core Tools: PyTorch, Hugging Face, Scikit-learn
- Data & ML: Pandas, NumPy, OpenCV
- Deployment: Docker, FastAPI
- Other: Git, Linux
- 📧 Email: brunobeijuka@gmail.com || bruno.beijuka@marconilab.org
- 📱 Phone: +256 7585940173
- 🐦 Twitter/X: https://x.com/BrunoBeijuka
- 💻 GitHub: https://github.com/Beijukabruno
- 🤗 Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/Beijuka
- 💼 LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/beijuka-bruno
- 🧾 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5602-9871
- 📚 Academia: https://mak.academia.edu/BeijukaBruno
I’m always open to collaborations in:
- AI for healthcare
- Research projects
- Dataset development for low-resource settings
If you’re working on something impactful, feel free to reach out.