This Community Talk showcases the impact of collaboration between the Data Science Institute (DSI) of UHasselt and partners in the Global South. Alongside research highlights, the session will feature recently completed projects. Speakers – including promotors at DSI and in the South, as well as master’s and PhD students – will share what has been achieved, the impact created, and the personal and professional value gained.
The event is designed not only to highlight research outcomes from different perspectives, but also to strengthen connections among alumni, partners, and friends from the Data Science Institute, fostering dialogue and networking across borders.
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This collaboration between UHasselt and the University of Lubumbashi (UNILU, DR Congo) focuses on developing affordable homemade solar cookers for domestic use. Two Centres of Excellence, set-up at both universities, are educating a new generation of students to come up with innovative sustainable solutions.
- Sylvain Balume - PhD student BOF BIL, UHasselt, UNILU
- Aslihan Babayigit - FWO postdoctoral fellow UHasselt, IMO-IMOMEC
- Abdulaziz Mwamdu, Felista Cosmas Kauki, Baraka Rashidi - Alumni Master of Statistics, UHasselt
- Emilie de Virgilio - Bachelor student Physics UHasselt
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C-BIRD addresses the daily challenges caused by climate change. Rural communities in Kenya are facing food and economic instability. The project established a bioinformatics lab at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), where researchers are developing new poultry and crop cultivars. Working with the national Coffee Research Institute (+500,000 farmers), the project applies genomic data to breeding programmes, while also building local research capacity.
- Dirk Valkenborg – Prof bioinformatics @ data science Institute UHasselt, promotor of the C-Bird project
- Johnstone Neondo - Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Institute for Biotechnology Research (IBR), Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), promotor of the C-Bird project
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