Josephine M Namayanja

NSF HDR Institute for Harnessing Data and Model Revolution in the Polar Regions (iHARP)

Education

Ph D, Information Systems — University of Maryland Baltimore County (2015)
Change Detection in Temporally Evolving Computer Networks
MS, Information Systems — University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2010)
BS, Information Technology — Makerere University Kampala (2007)

Engaging K-12 Learners in Data Annotation for AI Climate Models 2025 ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Michael MacFerrin, Edward Boyda, Kimberly Young, Josephine M Namayanja, Aneesh Subramanian, Mohamed Mokbel, Lujie Karen Chen, Vandana P Janeja
Research Teams Case Study: iHARP - NSF HDR Institute for Harnessing Data and Model Revolution in the Polar Regions Convergence Workshop: Combining Theory and Praxis in Complex Research Centers · Accepted Vandana Janeja, Josephine M Namayanja, Nikki Monczewski, Sudip Chakraborty, Ratnaksha Lele
Elevating Citizen Science Opportunities to Advance Machine Learning: A Case Study in Anomaly Detection Nature Communications · Revising to Resubmit Elizabeth G Campolongo, Yuan-Tang Chou, Phillip Harris, Wei-Lun Chao, Shih-Chieh Hsu, Hilmar Lapp, Mark S Neubauer, Josephine M Namayanja, Aneesh Subramanian, Subhankar Ghosh, Vandana P Janeja

Beyond the PhD: Navigating the transition to Graduate Student to Early Career Professional. 2025 iHARP: 4th Annual Fireside Chat · NSF HDR Institute for Harnessing Data and Model Revolution in the Polar Regions (iHARP)
Dealing with Heterogeneous Data 2025 HDR Ecosystem Conference 2025
HDR Machine Learning Challenge 2025 HDR Ecosystem Conference 2025 · Oral Presentation
Interview Skills 2025 IHARP Wisebyte Wednesdays: Workshop Series · NSF HDR Institute for Harnessing Data and Model Revolution in the Polar Regions (iHARP) · Oral Presentation
GitHub and Version Control 2025 Hands on Research Computing and Science Collaborations Workshop · Demonstration
Making Effective Presentations 2024 iHARP: 3rd Annual Fireside Chat · NSF HDR Institute for Harnessing Data and Model Revolution in the Polar Regions (iHARP)
A Preliminary Open Science Pipeline to Facilitate AI Reproducibility for Interdisciplinary Communities 2024 FAIR in ML, AI Readiness, & Reproducibility (FARR) Workshop · Poster Josephine M Namayanja (Author & Presenter), Vandana P Janeja (Author)

Strategic Awards for Research Transitions (START) 2025 University of Maryland, Baltimore County · Grant · Currently Under Review Josephine M Namayanja (Principal), Sudip Chakraborty (Co-Principal)
EAGER: CI PAOS: Open Science Approach to regridding satellite datasets to a uniform spatial and temporal resolution for Complex Research Systems 2025 National Science Foundation · Grant · Not Funded Sudip Chakraborty (Principal), Josephine M Namayanja (Co-Principal), Vandana P Janeja (Co-Principal)
UMBC Supplement for Undergraduate Research Experiences (SURE) 2024 University of Maryland, Baltimore County · Grant · Funded

A Benchmark Dataset and Algorithm Evaluation for Supraglacial Lake Detection on the Greenland Ice Sheet 2025 Scholarly · Writing Results Mike MacFerrin, Bayu Adhi Tama, Josephine M Namayanja, Sai Vikas Amaraneni, Emam Hossain, Maloy Kumar Devnath, Mohamed Mokbel, Aneesh Subramanian, Vandana Janeja