Charity Basaza Mulenga is a Ugandan

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and

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. She was the founding

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(2011 to 2016) of

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(SAIU), a private institution of higher education that the

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accredited in 2011.

Background and education

She was born circa 1979 in

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in the Western Region of Uganda. Mulenga studied

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, the largest and oldest public university in Uganda, graduating with a

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degree in 2001. Her

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degree in digital communication systems was awarded by the

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in 2004. She also holds a

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degree in electrical and electronic engineering, awarded in 2010 by Loughborough University.

Work experience

In 2001 Mulenga joined

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as a switch planning engineer. In 2003, she left there to pursue a Master of Science degree in the United Kingdom on a

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scholarship. She returned to Uganda in 2005 and joined the Faculty of Computing and

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at Makerere University as a research coordinator. While there, she obtained another scholarship to pursue her doctorate. Her research area was antennas and electromagnetic modelling. During this period, she was appointed an

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in the same faculty at Makerere. In 2009, she was appointed deputy vice chancellor at SAIU. Between 2011 and 2016, she served as vice chancellor at SAIU. She is a member of the University Council at SAIU.

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"The Application of Periodic Structures to Conical Antenna Design": PhD Thesis By Charity Basaza Mulenga at Loughborough University In 2009

Makerere University, School of Computing and Informatics Technology: List of Supervisors for The Graduate Programme In The Academic Year 2010/2011

Omweso Computer Game - Thesis In Partial Fulfillment of the Degree of Bachelor of Science In Computer Science at Makerere University Kampala: Lead Developer: Abdul Semakula; Supervisor: Charity Basaza Mulenga. Date: June 2006
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Background and education

Work experience

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