Executive Director for iHARP
Contact Information for Dr. Josephine Namayanja
- jona1@umbc.edu
- Office – 900 Walker Avenue, Rm 140J
Professional Experience
- Executive Director – iHARP (October 2024 – Present)
- Research Associate Professor – iHARP (October 2023 – Present)
- Associate Executive Director – iHARP (October 2023 – October 2024)
- Assistant Professor of Management Science and Information Systems – University of Massachusetts Boston (September 2015 – September 2023)
Short Biography
Josephine M. Namayanja is a Research Associate Professor at the Institute for Harnessing Data and Model Revolution in Polar Regions (iHARP), at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Before that, she served as an Assistant Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the College of Management at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Josephine received a Ph.D in Information Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in May 2015 where she also received an M.S. in Information Systems in May 2010. She received a B.S. in Information Technology from Makerere University Kampala in Uganda in May 2007
Josephine joined iHARP serving in the capacity of Associate Executive Director, before transitioning to the role of Executive Director in October 2024. She supports the institute in multiple internal and external collaborative efforts such as open science practices, HDR ecosystem endeavors, undergraduate data science and AI opportunities, community engagement, and sustainability, to mention a few. She also serves on iHARP’s Pan-HDR-Ice-Melt Community Council (PHICC), aimed at expanding iHARP’s connections across various scientific disciplines and communities.
As a researcher, her primary focus leverages machine learning, big data, artificial intelligence, and open science techniques to address scientific problems in climate science, polar science, health care, cyber security, urban mobility, e-commerce, project management, fintech, higher education learning, labor management, criminal justice, agricultural sustainability, and value-based data science for developing economies. She has published her research work in various journals and also presented at various conferences. Josephine has also served on regional and international conferences as well as, on the editorial review board of journals in the areas of data science, decision sciences, business intelligence, and information systems.
last updated 24 February 2025