Carine Mukamakuza
Instructor, CMU-Africa
Carine Pierrette Mukamakuza was born in Rwanda. She holds a bachelor and master’s degree in computer science from the Central South University, China, and completed her Ph.D. studies at the Vienna Technical University in the Vienna Ph.D. School of Informatics in Vienna, Austria in April of 2020.
Mukamakuza is a researcher and an entrepreneur. Her research interests are in business intelligence, data science (especially in machine learning where she has focused on Recommender systems), user rating behavior, personalization and online social network analysis. She has, over time, investigated the degree of impact that social connections have to the rating behavior of users, by studying publicly available datasets. Wearing her entrepreneur hat, she is the CEO of Digital Data in E–Business Group (D2iEB), a company that specializes in data analysis for online businesses, social network analysis, training, consultancy and marketing servicing clients’ who either use English, French, Chinese, Swahili and German as their language of business communication.
Education
Ph.D., School of Informatics, Vienna Technical School
M.S. Computer Science, Central South University, China
B.S. Computer Science, Central South University, China
Media mentions
CMU Engineering
$3.3 million awarded to advance digital technology in Africa
Afretec has awarded 11 grants, each led by a multi-university research team, to build research capacity and work toward achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Africa.
CMU College of Engineering
$3.3 million awarded to advance digital technology in Africa
Afretec has awarded 11 grants, each led by a multi-university research team, to build research capacity and work toward achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Africa.
Carnegie Mellon University Africa
Building an accessible digital model for malaria screening
Carine Pierrette Mukamakuza is creating an automated malaria screening tool that could revolutionize data accessibility and treatment in Africa.