Grace Njoki Maina (Kenya), “Re-thinking Complementarity in Leadership; The Place and Role of Women in Indigenous Systems of Governance”
Grace Njoki Maina is a tutorial fellow at KCA University, Kenya. She earned her Bachelor of Education and MA in history from Kenyatta University and is currently pursuing her PhD at Makerere University. She has worked in various research settings within universities and the NGO sphere. At U-M, she will work with David Temin (Political Science, LSA) on a project titled “Women in traditional governance of Kenya: Agikuyu women ‘Ndundu cia Aaka.”
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Daniel Ramotsoela (South Africa), “Verifiable Computation for Data-Oblivious Sequestered Encryption Applications”
Daniel Ramotsoela is a senior lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He holds a PhD in computer engineering from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. His research interests include cyber security and machine learning, focusing on Internet of Things applications and cyber-physical systems. His research project at U-M, titled “A Framework for Intrusion Detection in Industrial Control Systems,” will focus on the development of a framework for host-based intrusion detection in industrial control systems. His U-M host is Todd Austin (College of Engineering).
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Meseret Azene (Ethiopia), “Epidemiology of diarrhea among children with diarrhea aged 6-59 months attending Health Centers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia”
Meseret Azene lectures at the Center for Food Science and Nutrition, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. She received her BSc in pharmacology and MSc in food science, both from Addis Ababa University, where she is currently pursuing her PhD. Her research interests focus mainly on the nexus between nutrition and infection/non-communicable diseases. While at Michigan, she will work with Joseph Eisenberg (School of Public Health) on a project titled “Epidemiology of diarrhea among children of 6-59 months in community and hospital settings in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.”
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Bosena Yirga (Ethiopia), ”The Governance of Green Infrastructure Planning and Management in Hawassa, Ethiopia”
Bosena Yirga is a lecturer in the Department of Urban Sociology at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. She also completed a BA in sociology and an MA in social anthropology from Addis Ababa University, and is currently pursuing his PhD study in urban and regional development at the same institution. Her research interests include green infrastructure planning and management, urban poverty, governance approaches, and forest management. At Michigan, she will work on her project titled “Governance approaches for green infrastructure planning and management in selected Ethiopian urban areas” with U-M host Larissa Larsen (School of Urban and Regional Planning).

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