Kizito N. NKURIKIYEYEZU

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I am a researcher and a lecturer at the African Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Engineering and e-Health, and the Africa Center of Excellence in Internet of Things. My area of specialization is the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to resolve healthcare challenges in Rwanda. In addition to my academic endeavors, I provide consultative services to businesses on the utilization of AI and software for optimizing their profitability and competitiveness.

My research focuses on developing AI-based solutions to healthcare challenges in Rwanda. I serve as the Principal Investigator of a project to create an AI Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) to rapidly interpret heart rate readings during childbirth. The CDSS has received approval from the Rwanda FDA and is currently undergoing clinical trials at La Croix du Sud Hospital. The the development of the medical device is sponsored by Spiker Ltd., a Japanese health technology company and the device implemented by a multi-national and interdisciplinary team from around the world.

I also lead a project to predict infectious disease outbreaks using geolocation data, and serve as a Co-Principal Investigator on a project to design a smart COVID-19 tracing system. I am actively engaged in a collaborative research project with Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan aimed at developing wearable devices that detect changes in body temperature and other factors to prevent heatstroke.

In the past, my research has included developing intelligent and energy-efficient air-conditioning systems, as well as pioneering research in the field of affective and physiological computing. This work has laid the foundation for the creation of devices that automatically adjust to meet the needs of users in a sustainable manner, improving thermal comfort, ventilation, well-being, and productivity.

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selected publications

2021

  1. Book chapter
    Classification of Eating Behaviors in Unconstrained Environments
    Kizito Nkurikiyeyezu, Haruka Kamachi, Takumi Kondo, and 3 more authors
    In Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2021

2020

  1. Ph.D. thesis
    Affect-Aware Intelligent Thermal Comfort Environments
    Kizito Nkurikiyeyezu
    Aoyama Gakuin University, Mar 2020
  2. Journal
    Effect of Person-specific Biometrics in Improving Generic Stress Predictive Models
    Kizito Nkurikiyeyezu, Anna Yokokubo, and Guillaume Lopez
    Sensors and Materials, Feb 2020

2019

  1. ACII
    Affect-aware thermal comfort provision in intelligent buildings
    Kizito Nkurikiyeyezu, Anna Yokokubo, and Guillaume Lopez
    In 2019 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Sep 2019

2018

  1. Journal
    Heart rate variability as a predictive biomarker of thermal comfort
    Kizito N. Nkurikiyeyezu, Yuta Suzuki, and Guillaume F. Lopez
    Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Aug 2018
  2. Journal
    Conceptual Design of a Collective Energy-Efficient Physiologically-Controlled System for Thermal Comfort Delivery in an Office Environment
    Kizito Nkurikiyeyezu, Yuta Suzuki, Pierre Maret, and 2 more authors
    SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration, Jul 2018
  3. Journal
    Development and evaluation of a low-energy consumption wearable wrist warming device
    Guillaume Lopez, Takahiro Tokuda, Manami Oshima, and 3 more authors
    International Journal of Automation Technology, Nov 2018