Kennedy Senagi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Data Management) and Data Manager at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe). He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Paris8, France. He has over ten years of experience in the areas of data science, machine learning, and software engineering. His research works are in, but are not limited to, optimization of the machine learning algorithms, building a research data management system and pipelines, and development of decision support systems in agricultural, health, engineering, etc.