Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba, PhD

Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba serves as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Universal/Uganda Technology and Management University (UTAMU) since its establishment in 2012.  The Board of Directors is the supreme organ of the University, which  holds the university in trust on behalf of the shareholders. UTAMU is a prestigious research intensive private University whose niche is in Technology and Management (T&M).

Prof. Baryamureeba holds a B.Sc., M.Sc. and PhD in Computer Science and he Professor is a Professor of Computer Science.  He also  serves as the Chancellor of Ibanda University since its establishment and the patron of the Institute of African Culture Science and Technology since its funding in 2014.

He possesses immense multidisciplinary skills in teaching, research and consultancy. He has been teaching and researching since 1994 and consulting since 2001. Since 2001, he is the Chairman and Managing Director of ICT Consults Ltd, one of the most prestigious consulting firms in Africa. He has been lead consultant on various assignments at national, regional and international level in areas such as needs assessment / baseline studies, strategy and policy development, systems analysis and development, software development, eLearning, (higher) education planning and management, corporate governance, resource mobilisation,  private sector development, regional integration, technology transfer, knowledge and wealth management. He has provided services to key institutions like AU, UNECA, COMESA, EAC, East African Science and Technology Commission (EASTECO) and Inter-University Council of East Africa (IUCEA) among others.

He is also the Chairman and Managing Director of UTAMURIC, an umbrella Research and Innovation non-profit organisation that promotes research, innovation, business incubation and startups in Africa.

While at the prestigious Makerere University, he served as a Professor and Dean of the School of Computing and IT and Vice Chancellor  of Makerere where he spearheaded research and innovation and the transformation of Makerere University into a collegiate University. He served as founding Vice Chancellor of Uganda Technology And Management University (UTAMU), 2012-2015.

He also previously served in the following roles among others:

• He served as the Founding Chairperson of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Innovation and served, 2013 -2016.  The COMESA Innovation Council’s primary responsibility was to provide advice to Member States relating to existing and new knowledge and innovations, and best ways of applying the knowledge and innovations in the Member States. The Council was also responsible for choosing winners of the Annual COMESA Innovation Awards.
• He served as the Chairperson (2009-2010) and member (2009-2012) of the Inter University Council of East Africa (IUCEA). IUCEA is an institution of the EAC whose mission is to promote strategic and sustainable development of higher education and research, and to develop supportive mechanisms for East Africa’s regional integration and socio-economic development. The IUCEA Act (2009) defines the purpose of IUCEA as to advise Partner States on all matters related to higher education.
• He served as a Member of the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE), 2009-2012: member of Finance and Management Committee, the Quality Assurance and Accreditation Committee, the Research and Development Committee, and the Full Council. NCHE regulates higher education, and guides the establishment of institutions of higher learning as well as ensures that quality and relevant education is provided in Uganda.
• He served as Chairperson, Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) Board, 2009-2012. RUFORUM is a consortium of several universities in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa established in 2004 and has a mandate to oversee graduate training and networks of specialization in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) member countries.
• He served as Chairperson, Uganda Vice Chancellors Forum (UVCF), 2013-2016. The UVCF is a body that brings together all Vice Chancellors in Uganda, from both public and private universities with an aim of addressing issues that affect universities in the country.
• He served as Chairperson, Uganda Business and Technical Examinations Board (UBTEB), 2013-2019. The object of the Board is to streamline, regulate and coordinate examinations and awards in the business and technical profession in Uganda.
• He served as Member of the 7^th Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) from August, 2010 to August 2013. UNEB is the national assessment body for primary and secondary education in Uganda.
• He served as Chairman of the Board (2010–2014) and Director (2009–2014) of the Research and Education Network for Uganda (RENU). RENU’s main objectives include: to promote and facilitate research and education networking among Ugandan Universities and Research Organization; to provide cheaper bandwidth to educational and research institutions; to create stronger negotiating positions for participating institutions in dealing with government and regulators on issues related to policy and regulation vis-à-vis research and educational organizations; and to explore ways of overcoming the high cost of information systems through pooling resource and sharing, where feasible, costs for common software, and promoting collaboration in areas that may include but are not limited to e-learning systems to help deliver common online courses.
• He served as Chairperson of Council, Makerere University Business School (MUBS), 2012-2018. The MUBS Council is the supreme policy organ of the University. It is responsible for directing the academic, administrative and financial affairs of the University.
• He served as Member, African Institute for Capacity Development (AICAD), 2011-2013. AICAD aims at poverty reduction in the African region through human capacity development.
• He served as Member, Presidential Investors Round Table, 2006-2013. The mandate of the Council was to advise the Government on steps that should be taken to improve the investment climate and increase Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows to Uganda.

In addition to the above, Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba has served as chairperson and/or member of several other boards, councils or agencies from across the globe and also undertaken various socio-economic initiatives aimed at making the world a better place.

Journals

1. Venansius Baryamureeba, Wilfred Karukuza Nahamya. (2014). The Role of TVET in Building Regional Economies, International Journal of Vocational Education and Training Vol. 22 No. 1, pp 7-15. ISSN: 1075-2455.
2. Washington Okori, Joseph Obua, and Venansius Baryamureeba. (2010). Logit Analysis of Socioeconomic Factors Influencing Famine in Uganda. Journal of Disaster Research, Vol. 5 No.2, pp. 208-215, 2010
3. Okori W., Obua J., and Venansius Baryamureeba. (2009). Famine Disaster Causes and Management Based on Local Community’s Perception in Northern Uganda, Research Journal of Social Sciences, 4, 21 -32.
4. R. Wesonga, J.P. Jehopio and Venansius Baryamureeba. (2008). Stochastic Optimisation Model for Agricultural Production in Africa using Remote Sensing Technology. Makerere University Research Journal (MURJ), Vol. 3 No. 1, pp. 81 – 87.
5. Kitoogo F., Venansius Baryamureeba and G. De Pauw. (2008). Towards Domain Independent Named Entity Recognition. International Journal of Computing and ICT Research, Vol. 2 No. 2, pp. 84-95.
6. Wakabi-Waiswa P., and Venansius Baryamureeba. (2008). Extraction of Interesting Association Rules Using Genetic Algorithms, International Journal of Computing and ICT Research, Vol. 2 No. 1, pp. 26-33.
7. Venansius Baryamureeba and T. Steihaug. (2007). On the Properties of Preconditioners for Robust Linear Regression, International Journal of Computing and ICT Research, Vol.1, No.2, pp. 50-66,
8. Kitoogo F. E. and Venansius Baryamureeba. (2007). Meta-Knowledge as an Engine in Classifier Combination, International Journal of Computing and ICT Research, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 74-86.
9. Venansius Baryamureeba. (2007). ICT as an Engine for Uganda’s Economic Growth: The Role of and Opportunities for Makerere University, International Journal of Computing and ICT Research, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 47-57.
10. Wanyama T. and Venansius Baryamureeba. (2007). The Role of Academia in Fostering Private Sector Competitiveness in ICT Development, International Journal of Computing and ICT Research, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 58-67.
11. Kitoogo F. E. and Venansius Baryamureeba. (2007). A Methodology for Feature Selection in Named Entity Recognition, International Journal of Computing and ICT Research, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 18-26.
12. Venansius Baryamureeba and F. Tushabe. (2006). The Enhanced Digital Investigation Process Model, Asian Journal of Information Technology 5 (7): pp. 790-794.
13. Venansius Baryamureeba and Ngubiri J. (2006). On Improvement of the Volcano Search and Optimization Strategy, Dongarra, K. Madsen, and J. Wasniewski (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), LNCS 3732, pp. 839-846.
14. Venansius Baryamureeba and T. Steihaug. (2006). On the Convergence of an Inexact Primal Dual Interior Point Method for Linear Programming, I. Lirkov, S. Margenov, and J. Wasniewski (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), LNCS 3743, pp. 629-637.
15. Lowu F. and Venansius Baryamureeba. (2006). On Efficient Distribution of Data in Multicast Networks: QoS in Scalable Networks, I. Lirkov, S. Margenov, and J. Wasniewski (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), LNCS 3743, pp. 518—525.
16. Tushabe F. and Venansius Baryamureeba. (2005). Cyber Crime in Uganda: Myth or Reality? Transactions on Engineering, Computing and Technology V8, ISSN 1305-5313.
17. Samson Okwakol Ariko and Venansius Baryamureeba. (2005). On Internet Access Technology Specification Model. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, Issue 8, page 61 – 65.
18. Venansius Baryamureeba. (2004). Solution of Robust Linear Regression Problems by Krylov Subspace Methods, Lirkov et al. (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), LNCS 2907, pp. 67-75.
19. Venansius Baryamureeba. (2002). Solution of Large-Scale Weighted Least Squares problems, Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, Vol. 9, pp. 93—106.
20. Venansius Baryamureeba. (2001). The Impact of Equal-Weighting of Both Low-Confidence and High-Confidence Observations on Robust Linear Regression Computation, BIT Numerical Mathematics, Issue 41, No. 5, pp. 847—855.
21. Venansius Baryamureeba. (2001). On Solving Large-Scale Weighted Least Squares Problems, I. Lirkov, J. Wasniewski and P. Yalamov (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), LNCS 1988, pp. 59-67.
22. Venansius Baryamureeba, Steihaug T. and Y. Zhang (1999). Application of a Class of Preconditioners to Large Scale Linear Programming Problems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), LNCS 1685, pp. 1044-1048.
23. Venansius Baryamureeba and T. Steihaug, (1999). Computational Issues for a New Class of Preconditioners, Michael Griebel, Svetozar Margenov, Plamen Yalamov (Eds.), Large-Scale Scientific Computations of Engineering and Environmental Problems II, In Series Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 73, pp. 128--135, Vieweg.
24. Venansius Baryamureeba and T. Steihaug, (1999). On a Class of Preconditioners for Interior Point Methods, Nordic Section of the Mathematical Programming Society, Opuscula 49, ISSN 1400--5468.

Book Chapters

1. Habinka A., Sol H.G., and Venansius Baryamureeba. (2009). “Knowledge Management for Small and Medium Enterprises in Developing Countries – Uganda: A Studio Based Approach”, Conference proceedings of European Conference on Intellectual Capital: INHollanda University of Applied Sciences, Haarlem, the Netherlands: April 28–29, 2009, ISBN: 987-1-906638-30-6CD, pp.246 – 253.
2. Habinka A., Sol H.G., and Venansius Baryamureeba. (2009).  “Approaches towards Effective Knowledge Management for Small and Medium Enterprises in Developing Countries - Uganda” IST-Africa 2009 Conference Proceedings, IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2009, ISBN: 978-1-905824-11-3.
3. Venansius Baryamureeba. (2008). ICT-enabled Services: A Critical Analysis of the Opportunities and Challenges in Uganda. Special Topics in Computing and ICT Research Vol. 4, Janet Aisbett, Greg Gibbon, Anthony J. Rodrigues, Joseph Kizza Migga, Ravi Nath, Gerald R Renardel (Eds.), Strengthening the Role of ICT in Development. ISBN 978-9970-02-871-2, pp. 215-235.
4. Wakabi P., Venansius Baryamureeba, and K. Sarukesi. (2008). Mining Generalized Association Rules Using Genetic Algorithms. Special Topics in Computing and ICT Research. Vol. 4, Janet Aisbett, Greg Gibbon, Anthony J. Rodrigues, Joseph Kizza Migga, Ravi Nath, Gerald R Renardel (Eds.), Strengthening the Role of ICT in Development. ISBN 978-9970-02-871-2, pp. 59-69.
5. Tushabe F., Jehopio P, Venansius Baryamureeba, Bagyenda P, and C. Ogwang, (2008). The Status of Software Usability in Uganda. Special Topics in Computing and ICT Research Vol. 4; Janet Aisbett, Greg Gibbon, Anthony J. Rodrigues, Joseph Kizza Migga, Ravi Nath, Gerald R Renardel (Eds.), Strengthening the Role of ICT in Development. ISBN 978-9970-02-871-2, pp. 1-11.
6. Lowu F. X. and Venansius Baryamureeba. (2008). Delay-Optimized Path in Peer-to-Peer Networks. Special Topics in Computing and ICT Research ISBN 978-9970-02-871-2, Vol. 4, pp. 312-320.
7. Wakabi-Waiswa P. P. and Venansius Baryamureeba. (2007). Extraction of Interesting Association Rules Using Genetic Algorithms, Special Topics in Computing and ICT Research Vol. 3; Joseph Kizza Migga Janet, Aisbett Janet, Katherine Getao, Victor W Mbarika, Dilip Patel, Anthony J. Rodrigues (Eds.), Strengthening the Role of ICT in Development. ISBN 978-9970-02-730-9, pp. 101-110.
8. Venansius Baryamureeba. (2006). On Solving Large-Scale Linear Systems Arising from Interior Point Methods for Linear Programming, Joseph Kizza, Janet Aisbett, Andrew Vince, and Tom Wanyama (Eds.), Special Topics in Computing and ICT Research: Advances in Systems Modelling and ICT Applications, ISBN 13:978-9970-02-604-3; ISBN 10:9970-02-604-6, Vol. 2, pp. 50-64.
9. Angeyo J. S., Venansius Baryamureeba, and P. Jehopio. (2006). A Dynamic Framework for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in the Cyberspace, D. Williams and V. Baryamureeba (Eds.), Special Topics in Computing and ICT Research: Measuring Computing Research Excellence and Vitality, ISBN 13:978-9970-02-592-3; ISBN 10:9970-02-592-9, Vol. 1, pp. 230-247.
10. Ddembe W. and Venansius Baryamureeba. (2006). An Investigation of Heads of Computing Departments in Higher Education Institutions, D. Williams and V. Baryamureeba (Eds.), Special Topics in Computing and ICT Research: Measuring Computing Research Excellence and Vitality, ISBN 13:978-9970-02-592-3; ISBN 10:9970-02-592-9, Vol. 1, pp. 3-11.
11. Venansius Baryamureeba and W. Ddembe. (2006). The Doctoral Programme in Computing at Makerere University: Lessons Learned and Future Improvements, D Williams and V. Baryamureeba (Eds.), Special Topics in Computing and ICT Research: Measuring Computing Research Excellence and Vitality, ISBN 13:978-9970-02-592-3; ISBN 10:9970-02-592-9, Vol. 1, pp. 26-35.
12. Venansius Baryamureeba and W. Ddembe, (2006). Inter-departmental Staff Transfers in a Multidisciplinary Research Environment: Towards Transfer Criteria for Academic Staff at Universities in Developing Countries, D Williams and V Baryamureeba (Eds.), Special Topics in Computing and ICT Research: Measuring Computing Research Excellence and Vitality, ISBN 13:978-9970-02-592-3; ISBN 10:9970-02-592-9, Vol. 1, pp. 36-43.

Email: barya@utamu.ac.ug

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