Mr. Wilbroad Owor

Mr. Wilbroad Owor is a Cloud and MLOps Engineer with an academic and technical background in AI. He holds a MSc. Computer Science (Data Science & AI major) from Makerere University and a Bachelor of Information Technology and Computing from Kyambogo University. NLP, Data Science, ML, & Computer Vision are his research and engineering areas. He integrated scalable cloud infrastructures with end-to-end ML pipelines for research and production in several AI-driven projects. He also deploys and automates ML workflows using Docker, Kubernetes, TensorFlow Serving, and CI/CD frameworks for model lifecycle management reproducibility and performance. Training and deploying transformer-based NLP models, building real-time computer vision pipelines, and developing low-resource cloud-native solutions are among his recent projects.

Wilbroad is a PhD research student on this project responsible for the designing, execution and evaluation of digital innovations and AI solutions for fundamental health challenges, particularly those involving infectious diseases, microbiology processes and management and communication of antimicrobial resistance data. He will contribute to designing, developing, implementing the NIAMR platform and building an interoperability layer to connect all the siloed AMR surveillance systems and GLASS and other Digital Health systems in Uganda’s Health System.