Professor Serestina Viriri is a full professor of Computer Science. His main research areas include Computer Vision, Medical Image Analysis, Machine Learning, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, and other Artificial Intelligence and Image Analysis related areas, such as (Biometrics, Medical Imaging, Nuclear Medicine, Remote Sensing, etc.). Prof Viriri is an NRF-rated researcher. He has been in academia for more than 25 years.

Prof Viriri has published extensively in several accredited Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Image Processing journals, international and national conference proceedings. He serves as a reviewer for several accredited journals and has served on program committees for numerous international and national conferences. He has graduated several MSc and PhD students.