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.

Sep 30

William Sanders appointed dean Opens in new window

William H. Sanders of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been appointed as the next dean of the College of Engineering, effective January 1, 2020.

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.

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Space in Africa

CMU-Africa students develop spaceborne AI algorithm

CMU-Africa students participated in a collaborative project, STAR.VISION, as reported by Space in Africa. Under the mentorship of Rwanda Space Agency (RSA) engineers, students developed algorithms for the project’s inaugural AI Algorithm Rideshare Programme 1.0.

Biometric Update

Upanzi Network hosts hackathon webinar

Upanzi Network's recent webinar for the Eastern Africa Digital ID Hackathon was reported on by Biometric Update. Throughout this webinar, experts discussed the importance of biometric authentication and the Modular Open Source Identity Platform (MOSIP).

Medium

Tucker discusses deepfakes

CMU-Africa Director Conrad Tucker spoke with Medium about his work and strategies for the public to protect themselves against deepfakes and disinformation. “Policies need to be established to protect users so that they can be confident that the content they are consuming can be trusted,” Tucker says.

Carnegie Mellon University

Congratulations to our Andy Award Nominees

Congratulations to the College of Engineering Andy Award Nominees. Cheer them on at the event on Tuesday, October 15 in McConomy Auditorium.

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