Denish Azamuke is a Google PhD Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, Makerere University.
He received a BSc degree in computer science from Makerere University, Uganda, in 2020, and an MSc degree in mathematical sciences from the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Rwanda, in 2021. He is currently pursuing a PhD degree in computer science at Makerere University.
In 2023, he was a recipient of a 3-year Google PhD fellowship awarded to outstanding students around the world conducting exceptional research in computer science and related fields.
In 2020, he was a recipient of a 1-year AIMS Master's Scholarship.
In 2016, he received a 3-year Government of Uganda National Merit Scholarship for his undergraduate studies at Makerere University.
His PhD research is supported in part by the Digital Credit Observatory (DCO), a program of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, JPMorgan Chase & Company, and Google PhD Fellowship Program.
His research interests include synthetic data generation, privacy-enhancing technologies, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.