Dr. Lucy Waruguru Ph.D.

Position/Status

  • Dean – Research, Innovation and Outreach/ Senior Lecturer School of Technology NAC

E-mail Address

mburul@kcau.ac.ke

Academic Qualification

  • Ph.D. in Geoinformatics (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
  • MSc in Computer-based Information Systems (University of Sunderland, UK)
  • PGC and PGD in Computer-based Information Systems (University of Sunderland, UK)

Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations

  • Member Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
  • Member Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer science education (ACM’s SIGCSE)
  • Member Kenya Education Networks Special Interest Group on Computer Science and Information Systems (KENET SIGCSIS)

Profile

Dr. Lucy Waruguru is a Senior Lecturer at the College of Technology at KCA University.

She conducted her doctoral research at the Chair of GIScience, Heidelberg University, Germany, as a Deutscher Academischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) scholar. Her research activity involved the analysis of Geographic Information to understand and predict risk patterns.

Her Master’s study was in Computer-based Information Systems at the University of Sunderland, UK, under the Commonwealth scholarship fund. The research project was based on the usability context, and how to apply this to improve the human-computer Interface for medical prescription systems.

Research Interest

  • Geo-computation
  • Information management
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Inter-Disciplinary research

Consultancies and Research

  • Business process modeling System dynamics modeling Advances in databases
  • Database integration Scholarly writing
11Dr. Lucy Waruguru Ph.D.
mburul@kcau.ac.ke