Applied AI
Turning Research Into Intelligent Systems
Case studies drawn from scholarly projects and applied programmes: health AI, agriculture, computational biology, document intelligence and data platforms.
Scholarly work
Featured case studies
Applied programmes aligned with the research record, including mobile deployments and commercial outcomes.
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2022 to 2026 · Health AI · Audio · Mobile
Infant Cry Intelligence Programme
Audio intelligence, federated learning and an artificial parenting app
Infant cry is a primary communication channel in early life, yet interpretation remains informal, delayed and highly dependent on caregiver experience. In settings with limited neonatal expertise, that gap has clinical consequences.
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2019 to 2021 · Agriculture · Computer Vision · Mobile
Autonomous Crop Disease Surveillance
Computer vision for field-level plant health on Android
Crop disease is often detected late, after yield is already compromised. Visual inspection does not scale across smallholder landscapes, and expert agronomy is unevenly distributed.
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2019 · Health AI · Computational Biology
Computer-Aided Drug Design for Ebola VP35
Computational intelligence for a viral target
Identifying candidate compounds against viral proteins is slow when it depends only on wet-lab screening. Computational design can narrow the search if models are grounded in the biology of the target.
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2019 to 2021 · Computer Vision · Document AI · Mobile
Records Digitization with Computer Vision
From paper records to structured electronic data
Manual paper records create bottlenecks: they are hard to search, easy to lose, and expensive to aggregate for reporting. Organisations need a reliable path from physical documents to structured electronic records.
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Applied programmes
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2020 · Predictive Analytics · Spatial
Post-Harvest Loss Prediction
Tomato supply chains in Kibwezi West
Post-harvest loss along smallholder tomato supply chains is both an economic and a food-security failure. It is also uneven: some nodes lose far more than others, and interventions need to know where.
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TBC · Health AI · Computer Vision
Early NTD-Related Cataract Detection
Computer vision for neglected tropical disease screening
Cataract and related ocular presentations associated with neglected tropical disease are often caught late, especially where ophthalmology coverage is thin.
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2019 to 2020 · Predictive Analytics · Data Platforms
Logistics & Warehouse Forecasting
Real-time inventory intelligence at One Acre Fund
Agricultural last-mile logistics fail when inventory forecasts are late or locally wrong. Duka and warehouse stock must move with seasonal, spatial and behavioural demand.
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TBC · Computer Vision · Spatial
Drone Surveillance for Wildlife
Aerial monitoring as an applied vision problem
Wildlife monitoring over large landscapes is expensive when it depends only on patrols. Aerial imagery can help if models survive canopy, dust, and the rarity of the animals that matter.
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