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The University of Nairobi ranked 1st in Kenya, 805th in the global 2025 rating, and scored in the TOP 50% across 129 research topics.

Monday, January 14, 2025: The University of Nairobi’s Department of Computing and Informatics academic committee members met at the department’s PhD lab for a writing workshop. In response to the dynamic field of computing and informatics, the department is developing a postgraduate programme in artificial intelligence planned to be rolled out in September 2025. The MSc in Artificial Intelligence programme is at the core of the University’s Chancellor’s UoN Big 5 agenda on the Nairobi School of AI.

The AI for Health  Seminar scheduled to take place on 22 October, 2024 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm. The seminar themed "AI for Health: Innovations, Challenges and the Future of Care" has been organised by  C4DLab, Department of Computing and Informatics.

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The Kenya Reinsurance Corporation (KenyaRe) and the University of Nairobi (UoN) conducted an inspiring and successful AI-4-Insurance Hackathon between 25th and 27th September 2024. It was hosted at the KenyaRe Academy at the Reinsurance Plaza. This followed the signing of a collaboration agreement between the UoN and KenyaRE on a number of areas of mutual interest.

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Mozilla’s expansion of the Responsible Computing Challenge in East Africa is ready for take-off. Eight universities embedding ethical studies in their computer science curricula will receive a cumulative sum of USD $200,000 in grants.

On March 17, 2023, Filecoin Orbit Kenya and GDSC UoN hosted an Open Hack Day focused on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM). The event aimed to promote the use of Filecoin's decentralized data storage marketplace, protocol, and cryptocurrency to make the web more secure and efficient.

The aim of the webinar is to sensitize our students/staff on the importance of mental health and focus on post COVID-19 recovery strategy. Drug and substance abuse, peer-pressure, poor academic performance, work-life balance, financial constraints and personal/family issues are among reported factors associated with mental health issues. The Department’s concern is that the issues may also emanate from losses during COVID-19 pandemic and there is need for recovery strategies.

The Innovation Incubation Commercialization (IIC) program is a university of Nairobi program implemented by Intellectual Property Management Office and C4DLab. This program is for innovators with innovations that have potential for market commercialization. In the program, experienced industry players will coach and mentor the innovator teams in their quest to refine their innovations by translating them from ideas and prototypes to minimum viable products and services.