Author
Wasswa Shafik (Member, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)) is a Computer Scientist, an Information Technologist, and a Research Director at the Dig Connectivity Research Laboratory (DCRLab), Kampala, Uganda. He received his Bachelor’s in Information Technology at Ndejje University, Luweero, Uganda, and a Master’s in Information Technology Engineering (Communication and Computer Networks Option) at Yazd University, Yazd, Islamic Republic of Iran. He pursued his PhD in Digital Science (Computer Science) at the School of Digital Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam. His specific research interests include Smart Agriculture, Computer Vision, Ecological Informatics and Applied Artificial Intelligence. He has authored, edited, and published hundreds of peer-reviewed books, technical papers, book sections, and numerous IEEE International Conferences and prestigious international journals. He has served as a reviewer of Scopus, Compendex (Elsevier Engineering Index), and WoS (Web of Science) international journals. He further served in different capacities as department support for Mathematics for Data Science, Advanced Topics in Computing, Advanced Algorithms, System Performance and Evaluation, and Physical Computing for Intelligent Systems.