Tinashe Mutsvangwa

Tinashe E. M. Mutsvangwa (M’13) received the B.Sc. degree in electrical/electronic engineering and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical engineering, all from the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, in 2003, 2005, and 2009, respectively.,He is currently a Senior Lecturer in biomedical engineering and health innovation and design with the University of Cape Town.

His research projects center on the application of image and image analysis methods for computer-aided diagnosis. Topics span from 3-D reconstruction of bone, X-ray imaging, statistical shape and appearance modelling, 3-D morphometrics, diagnosis of TB via mobile phone imaging, computer-assisted Fetal Alcohol Syndrome screening, facial characterization of mental disorder patients to stereo-photogrammetry, 3-D geometric morphometrics, machine learning, and pattern recognition methods as applied to analysis of the human form and the use of mixed-reality for aiding orthopaedic diagnosis.,Dr. Mutsvangwa received the research-based University Chair of Excellence Fellowship from 2012 to 2014.

Companies

• (Interim) DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering & Innovation University of Cape Town (2021)
• Associate Professor University of Cape Town (2021)
• Chercheur associé IMT Atlantique (2017)
• Group Lead - Medical image-based inferencing and distributed diagnostics (Mi2D2) University of Cape Town (2015)
• Research Associate University of Basel (2021 — 2021)
• Senior Lecturer University of Cape Town (2017 — 2020)
• Chair IEEE EMBS Chapter South Africa (2017 — 2019)
• Chair IEEE EMBS Chapter South Africa (2018 — 2018)
• Secretary and Treasurer IEEE EMBS Chapter South Africa (2016 — 2017)