Research

In addition to teaching, CoCIS staff and students through their research groups conduct cutting edge research and have come up with products and services that have impacted on livelihoods in deferent sectors of agriculture, health, education, industry and business. Main research areas software and enterprise engineering, development informatics, artificial intelligence, networks and systems security, ICT for Education, mobile computing and communication, documentary heritage, records management, information policy and publishing, knowledge management and ICTs for Libraries.

The college has about 30 running projects including AirQO, Life Health Uganda, Internationalization in Library and Information Science Education, Pathways to Change towards Gender justice in STEM Research In Africa (GeJuSTA), ICT Platform for Pathogen Econony, Predicting Sweet potato sensory Attribution Using Image Analysis, Using Machine Learning for Localised and Targeted Agricultural Advisory to small holder farmers in Uganda, Next Generation Cassava II, Building Luganda Automatic Speech Recognition Models for Agriculture(Google NLP), Drone –Based Agricultural Dataset for Crop Yield Estimation, Helmet Labeling Crops, Lacuna Malaria Datasets, Using health information technology governance and epidemiologic approaches to implement sustainable digital health systems in central Uganda (PIRA), Adaptive Environment Monitoring Network for East Africa- AdeMNEA and The F.A.T.E of AI African Agriculture, Mobile ELISA and Syndromic Datasets.

CoCIS Research Agenda 2025-2030

The two Schools within College of Computing and Information Sciences strategic 5year plan define their goals, priorities and specific topics they intended to study. The critical knowledge gaps were identified to guide future studies, ensuring their efforts are focused, relevant, and impactful within their specific fields. These Agendas also serve as a background for decision-making regarding research activities.

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The CoCIS Endowment Fund

In the year 2025, the College of Computing and Information Sciences organized a staff retreat to officially launch its endowment fund. The event took place at the Source of the Nile Hotel in Jinja from August 14th to 16^th 2025. The retreat was held under the theme “Providing Incredible Opportunities for Research and Students,” emphasizing the college’s commitment to nurturing academic excellence and innovation..

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The RISE Fund

The RISE fund is coordinated by Dr. John Ngubiri as Director. RISE, is an initiative which was invented by Professor Oyana with a purpose of improving scholarship in the college. Academic staff preferably in their early career, and students under mentorship are eligible to get this funding. He emphasized the fact that grants awarded by RISE are all based on Merit and are only awarded to the best projects. Grants to be given to staff are assessed externally while student’s projects are assessed internally.

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