{"id":9217,"date":"2025-02-17T22:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T19:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conas.sua.ac.tz\/informatics\/?p=9217"},"modified":"2025-02-18T22:56:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T19:56:51","slug":"dr-theofrida-maginga-to-present-at-suas-inaugural-academic-staff-lecture-series-on-19-02-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conas.sua.ac.tz\/informatics\/dr-theofrida-maginga-to-present-at-suas-inaugural-academic-staff-lecture-series-on-19-02-2025","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Theofrida Maginga to Present at SUA\u2019s Inaugural Academic Staff Lecture Series on 19.02.2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sua.ac.tz\/\">Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA)<\/a> is set to host its first-ever <strong>Academic Staff Lecture Series<\/strong> on <strong>February 19, 2025<\/strong>, at the <strong>ICE Conference Hall, Edward Moringe Campus<\/strong>, starting at <strong>14:00<\/strong>. This initiative aims to provide a platform for recently graduated PhD and Master\u2019s academic staff to share their PhD\/Master&#8217;s research insights with the university community. Among the speakers is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conas.sua.ac.tz\/informatics\/theofrida-maginga\"><strong>Dr. Theofrida Maginga<\/strong><\/a> from the <strong>Department of Informatics and Information Technology<\/strong>, who will present on <strong>&#8220;Convergence of IoT, AI, and Natural Language Processing to Support Low-Literacy Rural Farmers in Early Detection of Crop Diseases: A Case Study of Maize in Tanzania.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Maginga\u2019s PhD research addressed the pressing challenge of crop disease detection among smallholder maize farmers, integrating <strong>Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Natural Language Processing (NLP)<\/strong> to create accessible solutions for those with limited literacy. 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