Meet the Team

Dr. Catherine Nakalembe
Lab Founder & Director
Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences
NASA Harvest-Africa Director
Agriculture and Food Security Thematic Lead for NASA SERVIR

Diana Botchway Frimpong
Faculty Specialist

Ivan Zvonkov
Machine Learning Engineer

Abena Boatemaa Asare-Ansah
Graduate Student

Adebowale Daniel Adebayo
Graduate Student

Iman Smith
Research Assistant
Yash Hitesh Gadhiya
Research Assistant

Monica Adjei
Teaching Assistant

Anjali Paliyam
Research Assistant
Christopher Wakhanala
Research Assistant
EA
Etai Admi
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Lab Affiliates
Gordon Mwesigwa
Makerere University
Matthew Oke
MILSAT Nigeria
Valinho António
University of Rwanda
Geoffrey Kimani
Carnegie Mellon University Africa
Alumni
Alana Ginburg
Research Assistant

Isha Asalla
Research Assistant

Taryn Devereux
Senior Faculty Specialist