Keneth M. Kwayu, Ph.D.

Dr. Keneth Kwayu is a senior data scientist at Fitila Labs, where he brings a background in data science, machine vision and geospatial data analysis to complex problems.

Before joining Fitila, he was a senior engineer and data scientist at Transcend Engineering, leading data wrangling and the modeling of geophysical phenomena with machine learning and deep learning in cloud environments. At the Michigan Department of Transportation he built scalable deep-learning models for object detection and GeoAI models for classifying public roads, and at Western Michigan University's TRCLC research lab he led multidisciplinary projects on traffic safety and operations.

Dr. Kwayu holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, an M.S. in Statistics, an M.S. in Civil Engineering and a graduate certificate in Applied Statistics from Western Michigan University, and a B.S. in Civil and Transportation Engineering from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society.