Kavengi Kitonga

Kavengi Kitonga is Lead AI Researcher at Qbit and a PhD candidate at the University of Nairobi, Kenya with interests in econometrics, visual arts, data storytelling, machine and deep learning, and the design of artificial intelligence (AI) powered applications. Kitonga holds an MA in Economic Policy Management and a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Nairobi. She started her PhD programme in Agricultural Economics under the African Regional Postgraduate Programme in Insect Sciences and German Academic Exchange Service scholarship programme based in the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Kenya. Kavengi was selected as a recipient of the Genebank Impacts Fellowship Program of the Crop Trust in 2018, and thereafter a recipient of the Mawazo Fellowship Programme in 2020. She is the author of Deliberate Data, a biweekly newsletter on LinkedIn documenting various aspects of AI.