2019

Nov 22

H.E. President Paul Kagame opens CMU-Africa's new home

Yesterday, Carnegie Mellon University Africa's (CMU-Africa) new location in Kigali Innovation City was inaugurated by H.E President Paul Kagame and CMU President Farnam Jahanian.

Nov 19

CMU-Africa celebrates new location Opens in new window

CMU-Africa celebrates the opening of its new location within Kigali Innovation City, where students can interact directly with surrounding industries to experiment, to innovate, and to build solutions that will impact the continent.

Nov 11

Vijayakumar Bhagavatula: Generating maps from GPS data

Prof. Bhagavatula's recent projects involves extracting information about where the roads are from the GPS data collected from vehicles and smartphones. He explains that this project is very important as maps inform us on where we are going and also it can be used by self-driving vehicles. By collecting data in real-time from vehicles, he is able to provide more accurate information about where the roads are.

Oct 01

Summer Internship at The World Bank

Over the summer, 8 students and 3 alumni from CMU-Africa were selected for The World Bank’s Young Women in Information Technology (WITY) Program in Washington D.C. The program aims to encourage young women in IT to apply and join the world bank work force as IT professionals. They were successfully recruited from among 44 others from around the world. In Africa, only 12 were selected for the summer internship program, 11 of them being women from CMU-Africa.

Jun 06

President of Rwanda meets with CMU students Opens in new window

On Thursday May 30, a delegation of Project Rwanda students and alumni from Carnegie Mellon’s Africa, Qatar, and Pittsburgh campuses were hosted by H.E. Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda at his office, Urugwiro Village, in Kigali, Rwanda.

Jun 03

A heart for increasing access to quality education in Africa

CMU-Africa made a difference in the life of MSIT student Rahma Ahmed. “My dream is to be an educator with a purpose,” Rahma says. She plans to be an entrepreneur and have a foundation so that she can fund schools across Somalia to train doctors, engineers, educators, and scientists.

Jun 02

Congratulations Carnegie Mellon University Africa Class of 2019 Opens in new window

Carnegie Mellon University Africa is proud to announce that 51 students graduated today, June 2, 2019, in Kigali, Rwanda.

May 09

Bhagavatula lab granted IEEE Data Storage Best Student Paper award

ECE students from Vijayakumar Bhagavatula’s lab were recently granted the 2016-2017 IEEE Data Storage Best Student Paper award for their paper “Locally Rewritable Codes for Resistive Memories.”

Mar 08

Extending healthcare access across the continent

CMU-Africa students use emerging technologies and the skills they learn at CMU to improve the continent. David Chukwuma is pursuing his Master of Science in Information Technology and will be graduating in the spring. Throughout his time at CMU-Africa, he has tackled multiple projects focused on making technology more accessible and improving life for people in rural areas.

Feb 28

3D displays that accommodate the human eye Opens in new window

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have engineered a new technology to enable natural accommodation cues in 3D displays.

Feb 04

Olga’s (MSIT’19) internship experience at the World Bank

Last summer, Olga worked as intern with the data management team at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. where her role was to ensure the right content was displayed on the intranet and that users did not encounter any errors.

Jan 20

Nancy at the IBRO-SIMONS Computational Neuroscience Imbizo

In December 2018, Nancy Lubalo (MSIT’19) attended the IBRO-SIMONS Computational Neuroscience Imbizo in Cape Town, South Africa. She won a scholarship to the intensive three-week summer school which had master’s and PhD students learn about cutting edge research techniques in computational neuroscience under the tutelage of the world’s leading experts in the field.

Mentions


Next Billion

CMU-Africa mentioned Next Billion

Conrad Tucker and CMU-Africa were mentioned in Next Billion about the recent Africa HealthTech Summit.

Cell

Luhanga discusses human-centric AI

CMU-Africa’s Edith Luhanga was interviewed by Cell about her work using human-centric AI to advance maternal health, child nutrition, online safety, and financial inclusion in several African countries.

Africa Clean Air Network

Presto joins Africa Clean Air Network Advisory Council

MechE’s Albert Presto has joined the Africa Clean Air Network’s Advisory Council to provide strategic guidance for the network.

Biometric Update

Musoke quoted about digital ID hackathon

CMU-Africa’s Andrew Musoke was quoted in Biometric Update about the Upanzi Network’s Digital ID Hackathon. This event brings together students from across Africa to develop use cases of digital ID across the continent.

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