About Erion Bwambale
Erion Bwambale is a Lecturer of Water and Irrigation Engineering at Makerere University, Uganda. He holds a PhD in Irrigation and Drainage Engineering from Ghana. He is a consultant and an early-career researcher passionate about developing data-driven machine learning models for precision irrigation for improved water use efficiency with over 20 publications on google scholar. He holds a masters degree in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Irrigation and Drainage from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya and a BSc. in Agricultural Mechanization and Irrigation Engineering of Busitema University, Uganda. He is a member of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), International Water Association (IWA), Pan African Society for Agricultural Engineering (PASAE), International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering and a Young Water Professional of International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage. With over 7 years of experience in irrigation research, Erion believes arid and semi-arid lands in Africa can be turned into productive hubs of nutritious food using sustainable irrigation systems.