Kizito Nkurikiyeyezu, PhD

Dr. Kizito Nkurikiyeyezu is a Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Rwanda, holding academic appointments at the African Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Engineering and eHealth (CEBE), the African Center of Excellence in Internet of Things (ACEIoT), and the University of Rwanda’s Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He has also held the positions of Visiting Scholar at Queen’s University Belfast in the UK and Invited Researcher at Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan. Additionally, he was briefly an Invited Scholar at Université de Saint-Etienne in France.

His research focuses on developing homegrown solutions to healthcare problems in Rwanda and Africa, utilizing artificial intelligence (AI). He currently serves as the Principal Investigator (PI) for an FDA-approved intelligent clinical decision support system aimed at providing rapid intrapartum Cardiotocography (CTG) interpretation in low-resource hospitals, as well as a PI for a research project predicting infectious disease outbreaks using geolocation data.

His previous research includes developing intelligent and energy-efficient air-conditioning systems and proposing a novel thermal comfort provision system that estimates people’s thermal comfort level from the variation in their heart rate variability due to their bodies’ response to the surrounding environment.

Dr. Nkurikiyeyezu received his Ph.D. from Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan, and holds an MS in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Oklahoma Christian University, USA, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the same institution.