Prof. Muthoni Masinde

Muthoni Masinde is a Professor of the IT Department at the Central University of Technology, Free State. She is also the Founder and CEO of ITIKI which stands for ‘Information Technology and Indigenous Knowledge with Intelligence.’ She has made significant contributions in the fields of artificial intelligence, specifically in the sub-fields of Artificial Neural Networks and the Internet of Things. She is an accomplished academic with over 25 years of experience in research, teaching, and academic leadership. She holds a BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Nairobi, Kenya, the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, and the University of Cape Town, South Africa, respectively. Additionally, she holds an MBA from the University of the Free State. She is an established computer science researcher under South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF) category C2 rating. She has published over 100 scientific publications and supervised several postgraduate studies.