Professor Audrey Julia Walegwa Mbogho

My research is in the applications of machine learning to problems facing the developing world, and currently I am focusing on education. The questions I am interested in answering are: How can we use machine learning to predict students who are at risk of failure in order to intervene early and avoid that outcome? What sorts of interventions would be most effective? What are the causes of poor performance?

Secondly, in Kenya students, upon completing high school, must choose a course to study at the university with little to no understanding of what that course involves. As a result, many struggle throughout their studies, and yet there is probably a better fitting course that they might chosen and excelled in. It would be interesting to see whether machine learning can be used to recommend a suitable course of study to new students in Kenya.