Jamal Firmat Banzi
Senior Lecturer
Morogoro
Summary
Highly accomplished and results-oriented Senior Lecturer with a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and a Postdoctoral Fellowship in AI for Cerebro-cardiovascular diseases. Possessing extensive experience in managing academic programs, developing innovative teaching techniques, and leading impactful research in areas such as Cognitively Inspired AI, Clinical Machine Learning, and 3D Medical Vision. Proven ability to secure funding for research projects, supervise graduate students, and contribute to institutional development. A member of IEEE and IAENG, with a strong publication record and a commitment to advancing the field of Artificial Intelligence.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
3
3
Languages
Work History
Senior Lecturer
Sokoine University of Agriculture
Morogoro, Morogoro
01.2023 - Current
- Responsible for managing taught programs, including oversight of day-to-day operational processes (e.g. timetabling, assessment, examination systems) and program accreditation processes.
- Contribute to the development of academic processes across the institution.
- Teach a range of materials, develop and apply innovative and appropriate teaching techniques and material which create interest, understanding and enthusiasm amongst students.
- Oversee the monitoring of student progress and provide advice and guidance to personal tutors and students as appropriate.
- Undertake and contribute to research, conducting individual research or collaborating with others.
- Conduct individual or collaborative scholarly projects.
- Lead collaborative research and/or enterprise activity producing high quality outputs with demonstrable impact, in particular influencing leading edge practice.
- Delivered higher-level undergraduate and graduate courses via classroom, online and hybrid methodologies to satisfy course curricula and meet student needs.
- Contributed to program accreditation efforts by compiling documentation and participating in site visits with external evaluators.
- Revised curriculum to align with industry trends, ensuring students were prepared for the job market.
- Engaged in continuous professional development through attending workshops, webinars, and conferences to stay current with industry trends and best practices in higher education.
- Enhanced student comprehension by incorporating real-life examples and case studies into lectures.
- Designed course materials such as syllabi, lecture notes, assignments aligned with both programmatic outcomes as well as course-specific objectives.
- Initiated collaborative projects between students from different majors, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and problem-solving skills.
- Conducted research in relevant field, integrating findings into course content and enriching student understanding of subject matter.
- Served on various university committees, supporting initiatives aimed at enhancing overall institutional effectiveness.
Lecturer
Sokoine University of Agriculture
Morogoro, Morogoro
01.2019 - 01.2023
- Deliver appropriate learning, teaching, support and assessment methods.
- Supervise student projects and the academic elements of field trips, and, where appropriate, placements.
- Select appropriate assessment instruments and criteria, assess the work and progress of students by reference to the criteria and provide constructive feedback to students.
- Ensure that module design and delivery comply with quality standards and regulations of the SUA.
- Conduct individual research or work on collaborative research projects.
- Engage in collaborative partnerships and contribute to the University's work in influencing leading edge practice.
- Manage student's projects relating to own area of work and the organization of external activities such as placements and field trips.
- Mentor colleagues with less experience and advise on personal development.
- Participate in and develop external networks, for example, to contribute to student recruitment, secure student placements, facilitate outreach work, generate income, obtain consultancy projects or build relationships for future activities.
- Undertake international visits in order to establish partnerships teach at partner institutions.
- Evaluated student progress through regular assessments, providing detailed feedback for improvement and growth.
- Created and designed quizzes, tests and projects to assess student knowledge.
- Developed strong relationships with colleagues, collaborating on curriculum development and sharing best practices in teaching strategies.
- Developed and implemented innovative teaching strategies to engage students in lectures and coursework.
Assistant Lecturer
Sokoine University of Agriculture
Morogoro, Morogoro
01.2015 - 01.2019
- Teach lectures, ensuring content, methods of delivery and learning materials meet the defined learning objectives for individual teaching sessions.
- Develop teaching materials, methods and approaches taking into account established or agreed practices where necessary.
- Set and mark assignments and set examination questions as well as assessing the work and progress of students by reference to defined criteria and provide constructive feedback to students.
- Supervise student projects under guidance and supervision.
Education
Postdoctoral Fellow - Artificial Intelligence (IA) for Early Prediction of CerebroCardiovascular Diseases
City University of Hong Kong
Hongkong 01.2023 - 01.2025
Ph.D. - Information and Communication Engineering (Artificial Intelligence)
USTC
04.2019 - 06.2019
MSc. - Signal and Information Processing Engineering
Tianjin University of Technology and Education
01.2015 - 07.2015
BSc. - Information Systems
University of Dodoma
Dodoma, Tanzania 01.2011 - 07.2011
Skills
Computer Programming
3D Medical Vision
Deep Learning
Pattern Recognition
Signal Processing
Certification
I, the undersigned, certify that to the best of my knowledge and belief, these data correctly describe my qualifications, my experience, and me., 07/09/24
Extra-Curricular Activities
Free and Open Source Society Club, University of Dodoma -2010 to 2012 Systems Development IT Consultancy Artificial Intelligence Consultancy
Editorial Board And Journal Reviewer
Journal of Autonomous Intelligence, Springer Nature: Machine Vision and Applications, Elsevier Journal: Image and Vision Computing, Journal of Machine Learning and Computer Vision, International Journal of Autonomous Intelligent, MUST Journal of Research and Development, Elsevier Journal: Engineering and Artificial Intelligence
Consultancies And Research Projects
- Label-free molecular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for multi-component evaluation of the plaques, 01/01/23, Present
- Design and implementation of a web-based sentiment classification and opinion mining for Tanzanian tourism destinations websites evaluation, 01/01/23, Present, Co-PI
- Design and development of Database for Miombo Timber species and identification and testing of lesser-known tree species, FORVAC TANZANIA, 01/01/20, 12/31/22, Member
- Developing an Artificial Intelligence technology called elephant eye technology for crop raiding prevention, SUA, 01/01/22, 12/31/24, PI
- Manufacturing and Commercialization of Inexpensive Assistive Technology Tools and E-learning User Interfaces for Students with Hearing Impairment in Tanzania, 01/01/22, 12/31/24, Co-PI
Research Interests
- Cognitively Inspired AI
- Human-Centered AI
- Clinical Machine Learning
- Healthcare Imaging
- Human Machine Interaction
- Sign Language Recognition
- 3D Hand Pose Estimation
- Computer Vision
- Signal Detection and Analysis
Dissertations
- PhD, 3D-Articulated Hand Pose Estimation for Multi-touchless Human-Machine Interaction, 2019
- Master's, Computer-Assisted Tool for Non-invasive Early Detection of Diabetes Mellitus by Computer Vision, 2015
- Bachelor's, Developing and Implementing Pharmacy Information Support Systems, 2011
Training And Workshops
- Embracing AI for Africa's Sustainable Development, University of Dodoma, Dodoma, Tanzania, 2022
- GEO-ICT a platform for developing geospatial information systems (GIS) and for deploying spatial data infrastructures (SDI), University of Dar es Salaam, Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania, 2020
- UTLIP training for junior academic staffs, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, 2020
- Pedagogical Leadership (PedaL) Workshop, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, 2019
- Advanced Superhyterodyn Radio adjustment and testing skill training, School of electronics, Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin PRC, April, 2015
- Integrated experiment on electronic information technique, Department of electronics, Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin PRC, June, 2014
Student Supervision
Stanley Leonard, 3D Real-time hand pose estimation for multi-touchless human-machine interaction, MUST, 2020-2023, Martin Emanuel, Decision Supporting System for Forest Plantations Management in Tanzania, SUA, 2022-Present, Miriam Mwiza Gondwe, Adoption of block chain technology in Tanzania, SUA, 2023-Present, Karim Hashimu Hussein, Bridging the digital divide: optimizing digital platform adoption in Tanzania cargo and carrier service sector, SUA, 2023-Present, 52, undergraduate BTM students, 2015-2023
Institutional Responsibilities
- Chairman of the CFWT College Website Committee, 2020-Present
- Board Member, CICT board, 2020-Present
Membership In Professional Associations
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- International Association of Engineers (IAENG)
- Editorial board member of the Journal of Autonomous Intelligence
Other Names
Jamal Firmat
Personal Information
Nationality: Tanzanian
Awards
- Outstanding Master's Thesis Award, Tianjin University, 2015
- Best Student of the Year, UDOM, 2009
- Selected Chairperson of FOSS, UDOM, 2010
- The World Academy of Science, (TWAS fellowship Awardee), 2015-2019
Publications
AI-Based Wearable Sensing: A Technological Intervention to Physiological Monitoring and Early Detection of Pandemic Diseases, Tito, S. L., Banzi, J. F., 11/01/24, 2024 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa (ICT4DA), 25-30, IEEE, Hand LightWeightNet: an optimized hand pose estimation for interactive mobile interfaces, Banzi, J. F., Leonard, S., 2024, International Journal of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 14, 2, HJFormer: Hand Joints Directed Transformer for 3D Hand Pose Estimation, Tito, S.L, Banzi, J.F., Mvuma, A. N., 2023, MUST Journal of Research and Development, 4, 2, Occlusion Handler Density Networks for 3D Multimodal Joint Location of Hand Pose Hypothesis, Tito, S. L., Banzi, J. F., Mvuma, A. N., 2023, Tanzania Journal of Engineering and Technology, 41, 4, Application of MobileNets Convolutional Neural Network Model in Detecting Tomato Late Blight Disease, Rajabu, R. C., Ally, J. S., Banzi, J. F., 2022, Tanzania Journal of Science, 48, 4, 913-926, A Deep Regression Network with Key-joints Localization for Accurate Hand Pose Estimation, Tito, S. L., Banzi, J. F., Mvuma, A. N., 2022, International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing, 12, 6, Plant species identification from leaf images using deep learning models (CNN-LSTM architecture), Banzi, J., Abayo, T., 2021, Tanzania Journal of Forestry and Nature Conservation, 90, 3, 93-103, Learning a deep predictive coding network for a semi-supervised 3D-hand pose estimation, Banzi, J., Bulugu, I., Ye, Z., 2020, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 7, 5, 1371-1379, Deep predictive neural network: Unsupervised learning for hand pose estimation, Banzi, J., Bulugu, I., Ye, Z., 2019, International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing, 9, 4, 432-439, Learning hand latent features for unsupervised 3D hand pose estimation, Banzi, J. F., Bulugu, I., Ye, Z., 2019, Journal of Autonomous Intelligence, 2, 1, 1-10, Higher-order local autocorrelation feature extraction methodology for hand gestures recognition, Bulugu, I., Ye, Z., Banzi, J., 2017, 2017 2nd International Conference on Multimedia and Image Processing (ICMIP), 83-87, IEEE, A novel hand pose estimation using discriminative deep model and Transductive learning approach for occlusion handling and reduced discrepancy, Banzi, J. F., Ye, Z., Bulugu, I., 2016, 2016 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communications (ICCC), 347-352, IEEE, Finger estimation method for hand gesture recognition, Bulugu, I., Ye, Z., Banzi, J., 2016, J. Math. Comput. Sci., 6, 6, 1002-1011, An automated tool for non-contact, real time early detection of diabetes by computer vision, Banzi, J. F., 2015, International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing, 5, 3, 225, A sensor based anti-poaching system in Tanzania national parks, Banzi, J. F., 2014, International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, 4, 4, 1, Improving distance throughput of ultra-violet communication Using both multled and average filter based method, Banzi, J. F., 2013, International Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications, 7, 11, 109, Detecting morphological nature of cancerous cell using image processing algorithms, Banzi, J. F., Zhaojun, X., 2013, International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, 3, 12, Spindle Bearings Fault Diagnosis Technique Based on Integration of Zero Resonator Frequency Filter and Discrete Wavelet Packet Transform, A. Mwelinde, A. T., Jin, H., Banzi, J., Fu, H., Han, Z., 11/01/21, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 85697, V013T14A004, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, https://doi.org/10.1115/IMECE2021-73194, AI-Based Wearable Sensing: A Technological Intervention to Physiological Monitoring and Early Detection of Pandemic Diseases, Tito, S. L., Banzi, J. F., 11/01/24, 2024 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa (ICT4DA), 25-30, IEEE
Training
- International cerebro-cardiovascular medical innovation scientific Forum, 01/22/25, Hongkong, S.A.R, China
- International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa (ICT4DA), 11/17/24, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- 27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, 10/06/24 - 10/10/24, Marrakesh, Morocco
- Biomedical Imaging with Magnet, Light, Sound and Electricity, Heart Brainstorming Forum, 2023, Hong Kong, S.A.R, China
- BME Conference of Healthcare Innovation and Technology, BME 2023, 2023, Hong Kong, S.A.R, China
- 3rd SUA Scientific Conference on enabling environment for agricultural transformation, 2023, Morogoro, Tanzania
- 2nd IEEE Conference on Computer and Communications, ICCC 2016, 2016, Chengdu, P.R. China
- ICIIC 2014 International Conference on Information and Intelligent Computing, 2014, Hong Kong, S.A.R, China
Leadership Experience
- General Secretary, Tanzanian Students Association of Hefei (TASAH), Hefei, China, 2017-2019
- Minister for Health and Education, Tanzanian Students Association of Tianjin (TASAT), Tianjin, China, 2014-2015
- Vice president, University of Dodoma Student Organization (UDOSO), 2010-2011
Timeline
Senior Lecturer
Sokoine University of Agriculture
01.2023 - Current
Postdoctoral Fellow - Artificial Intelligence (IA) for Early Prediction of CerebroCardiovascular Diseases
City University of Hong Kong
01.2023 - 01.2025
Ph.D. - Information and Communication Engineering (Artificial Intelligence)
USTC
04.2019 - 06.2019
Lecturer
Sokoine University of Agriculture
01.2019 - 01.2023
Assistant Lecturer
Sokoine University of Agriculture
01.2015 - 01.2019
MSc. - Signal and Information Processing Engineering
Tianjin University of Technology and Education
01.2015 - 07.2015
BSc. - Information Systems
University of Dodoma
01.2011 - 07.2011
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