Dina Machuve is the Co-Founder and CTO of DevData Analytics. She was until recently a Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) in Arusha, Tanzania. Her research focuses on developing data-driven solutions in Agriculture. For her PhD, she investigated the information logistics of small and medium size food processors. Her most recent project focused at developing a poultry diseases diagnostics tool using computer vision and bioinformatics methods for small and medium scale poultry farmers in Tanzania.
She was an Early Career Fellow of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD). She serves in the board of Data Science Africa (DSA), a non-profit organization that builds capacity of data science and machine learning in Africa. She is also a member of a research group on Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG). She completed her PhD in Information and Communication Science and Engineering from NM-AIST in 2016. She also has an MS in Electrical Engineering and BSc in Electrical Engineering.