The Department of Artificial Intelligence, commonly referred to as AI, has been focusing on three areas; agriculture, health and natural language processing. The Department is headed by Dr. Joyce Nakatumba Nabende. In Agriculture, AI has focused on a cassava project. The project has been diagnosing PPD cassava detoriation using images. The images taken of cassava

The project is led by Dr. Julianne Susane Sansa Otim as Principal Investigator. WIMEA-ICT is a combined research and capacity building project funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) under the Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development scheme. It is a co-operation between Makerere University in Uganda as host