Lorna Mugambi

Lorna Mugambi is an engineer with a background in Electrical & Electronic Engineering and Telecommunication Engineering. She earned both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Dedan Kimathi University of Technology (DeKUT), Kenya. Currently, she is a Doctoral Candidate (DC6) in the JustHealth project, hosted at KU Leuven, Belgium.

Her PhD research focuses on developing decolonized, just, and trustworthy foundation models for Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) screening and staging using handheld ultrasound. This builds upon her previous work at the Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAIL), where she investigated self-supervised multi-task learning for automated echocardiographic analysis under limited labelled data conditions.

Lorna’s research interests include self-supervised learning, computer vision, medical image analysis & foundation models for healthcare, edge deployment for resource-constrained environments, and decolonized AI.