Culture shift, Performance Improvement, Leadership Coaching, Management Development, Business Performance through people. 

With a huge emphasis on outcomes and culture, I am completely obsessed with human beings and human performance. A wise man once said: “Organisations don’t change unless teams do. Teams don’t change unless people do.” And this is my passion!

Steve Bent 🔓🟣

Aga Khan University

Dr Muchungi holds a PhD – Computational Neuroscience, and a master’s degree (Distinction) Management and Information Systems, from University of Surrey, United Kingdom. She also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the Africa Nazarene University, Nairobi, Kenya and a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Web Development in E-Business from Humber College, Canada. 
Prior to joining Aga Khan University, Dr Muchungi honed her expertise as the Communications and Technology Lead, and the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning team member with the Transforming Employability for Social Change in East Africa (TESCEA) Project through the Department for International Development, United Kingdom. 
Ever since 2012, she has successfully received grants, amounting to approximately USD 5.5 million, towards transforming university teaching and learning, embedding critical thinking and problem-solving skills in curricula. On the national front, she is part of the NRF development team for a food security project. 

Dr Muchungi’s latest role is as an Instructional Designer at the Aga Khan University, as an intervention scientist within the Brain and Mind Institute.  BMI’s mandate is to promote the mental health agenda by actively seeking out collaborations within The Aga Khan Development Network and without to promote awareness and the destigmatization of mental health in a stepped approach.  Dr Muchungi’s diverse wealth of experience in emerging technologies, science, design, and development of pragmatic solutions will contribute towards the attainment of this vision within the Region, by the introduction of innovative and localized interventions.

"Everything boils down to availability and capacity with regards to the use and the ability to leverage resources to promote inclusion, for self-actualization.  Self-actualization empowers you with the capacity to build mental-resilience and allows you the opportunity to impact others through your practice.”
~ 
Kendi Muchungi

Instructional Designer & Partnerships Manager

Africa Nazarene University

Programme Leader; Computer Science and Business and Information Technology

University of Surrey

We developed a new retinal model that allows for improved clarity of vision.

Because the retina outperforms existing visual man-made acquisition devices, it therefore follows that the best way to inform the design of retinal prosthetics is by computational simulations of human biological visual systems.  There do exist retina simulators, however, they do not encompass recent information pertaining to the interaction of retinal neurons.  These interdependencies contribute to higher performance by the retina in comparison.
To this end, we introduced a new retina model, which is biologically plausible, computationally simple, and one that captures these interdependencies. 


A more detailed synopsis is appended to this CV.


This research required my ability to straddle between multiple disciplines; neuroscience, computing, and physics, so as to develop a comprehensive model that would expose the underlying implications of this interdependency. 
In the course of my research I received two awards
-	Best Paper Presentation
-	Best Poster Presentation
I was also a PhD representative (PhD Rep) and helped organize and facilitate numerous conferences and academic events. While in the capacity, I represented the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (FEPS) during the 2011 re-launching of the Post Graduate Research Experience Survey (PRES), rolled out by the UK government, which saw one of the highest participatory numbers by the FEPS faculty. 

In the last four years, I have also been part of the Guildford Street Angels, who were the recipients of the auspicious Queen’s Award for Voluntary Services 2015.

PhD Researcher

Manager, Education & Technology and Specialist, Strategic Partnership Development, Aga Khan University

Dr Muchungi holds a PhD – Computational Neuroscience, and a master’s degree (Distinction) Management and Information Systems, from University of Surrey, United Kingdom. She also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the Africa Nazarene University, Nairobi, Kenya and a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Web Development in E-Business from Humber College, Canada. 

Dr Muchungi’s PhD research: 
Considered new findings with regards to the Retina and comprised the replication of the retina’s functionalities to inform the design of retinal implants.

Prior to joining Aga Khan University, Dr Muchungi honed her expertise as the Communications and Technology Lead, and the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning team member with the Transforming Employability for Social Change in East Africa (TESCEA) Project through the Department for International Development, United Kingdom. In her last engagement, she was a Lecturer and Programme Leader at the Africa Nazarene University, where she is working on introducing new pedagogies for curriculum efficacy in a technology-centric environment. In addition, Dr Muchungi is the co-founder of Nikola Energy, a waste-to-energy start-up, focused on conservation of resources. 

On the national front, Dr Muchungi was part of the Kenya National Research Fund development team for a food security project to tackle aflatoxins using ICT. Ever since 2012, she has successfully received grants, amounting to approximately USD 5.5 million, towards transforming university teaching and learning, embedding critical thinking and problem-solving skills in curricula. 

Dr Muchungi’s latest role is as an Instructional Designer at the Aga Khan University, as an intervention scientist within the Brain and Mind Institute.  BMI’s mandate is to promote the mental health agenda by actively seeking out collaborations within The Aga Khan Development Network and without to promote awareness and the destigmatization of mental health in a stepped approach.  Dr Muchungi’s diverse wealth of experience in emerging technologies, science, design, and development of pragmatic solutions will contribute towards the attainment of this vision within the Region, by the introduction of innovative and localized interventions.

"Everything boils down to availability and capacity with regards to the use and the ability to leverage resources to promote inclusion, for self-actualization.  Self-actualization empowers you with the capacity to build mental-resilience and allows you the opportunity to impact others through your practice.”
~ 
Kendi Muchungi

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