Samuel Kakuba
- Faculty of Engineering, Technology, Applied Design and Fine Art
- Department of Electrical Engineering
- skakuba@kab.ac.ug | sirkaks2@gmail.com
- samuelkakuba@yahoo.com
- Ph.D. EEEng (KNU) | MSc. DCSEng (MaK) | BSc. CompEng. (BstU).
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Dr. Samuel Kakuba is an Assistant Lecturer of Computer and Communications Engineering at Kabale University. He holds a Ph.D. in Electronics and Electrical Engineering (Information and Communication Engineering) of Kyungpook National University, South Korea. He also holds an M.Sc. in Data Communication & Software Engineering (Communication Networks/Systems) from Makerere University and a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Busitema University. Samuel is passionate about advancing the Fourth Industrial Revolution through teaching and research in areas such as Internet of Things (IoT), AI systems using machine learning, soft computing, and deep learning. His academic vision is to bridge AI and practical engineering to deliver affordable, impactful solutions for daily life in different communities.
Samuel’s research focuses on application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Intelligent Wireless Communication, Signal and Image Processing Systems. Currently, his specific research is in 3D object detection, intelligent speech and radar signal processing for human behavior prediction and affective computing in autonomous vehicles. Since 2011, he has supervised and mentored undergraduate and graduate student research across several universities that has led to several publications.
To view Samuel’s publications, click here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yaAUeFYAAAAJ&hl=en
Qualifications
- Ph.D. in Electronics and Electrical Engineering (2025), Kyungpook National University, South Korea
- MSc. Data Communication and Software Engineering (2018), Makerere University, Uganda
- BSc. Computer Engineering (2011), Busitema University, Uganda
Research Interests
Communication Systems Engineering, Internet of Things, Human Behavior Prediction, Artificial Intelligence Systems using Machine Learning and Deep Learning.
Current Research: Speech and Radar Signal Processing, Human Behavior Prediction and Affective Computing using Deep Learning (Computer Vision and NLP)
Publications
Projects
Supervision
Presentations
Inception-inspired local feature learning with attention mechanism for speech emotion recognition, Presented at the 32nd Joint Conference on Communication and Information (JCCI), April 27th to 29th, 2022.
Residual bidirectional LSTM with multi-head attention for speech emotion recognition, Presented at the Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences (KICS) Summer Conference 2022, June 22nd to 24th, 2022.
Performance comparison of raw speech signals and handcrafted features in deep learning-based emotion recognition models, presented at the 3rd Korean Artificial Intelligence Conference, September 28th to 29th, 2022.
Speech emotion recognition using context-aware dilated convolution network, presented at the 27th Asia-Pacific International Conference on Communications (APCC), October 19th to 21st, 2022.
Bimodal Speech Emotion Recognition using Fused Intra and Cross Modality Features, presented at the 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN), July 4th to 7th, 2023.