Professor Gunjan Mansingh is the former Head of the Department of Computing in the Faculty of Science and Technology, The UWI Mona Campus. Her research areas span data mining, machine learning, decision support systems, knowledge management, and expert systems. One assessor noted that “this variation reflects expertise and an ability to navigate research across several domains.”

She has demonstrated high quality in her collaborative research, teaching and graduate supervision record. Professor Mansingh’s research supervision portfolio includes 20 graduate students supervised. Since completing her PhD in 2009, she has supervised/co-supervised five PhD students, two of whom were awarded the degree with high commendation. Professor Mansingh has published 58 refereed publications, including 30 peer-reviewed conference proceedings, 10 book chapters and 18 papers in peer-reviewed journals including top 10 journals in the field such as Information Sciences, Information Systems Frontiers and Decision Support Systems. Professor Mansingh has also coauthored the book, Business Intelligence for SME’s: An Agile Roadmap for Sustainability (2019). She is also a co-editor of Knowledge Management for Development: Domains, Strategies and Technologies for Developing Countries.

Under her leadership, she and her team in the Department of Computing designed postgraduate programmes in Applied Data Science (Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma and Masters). The positive and value-added feedback from colleagues, students and employers bare evidence of the impact of these programmes to the overall value in developing the Data Science discipline at The UWI.

Professor Mansingh was responsible for establishing the UWI-NCB Agile Talent Laboratory in the Department of Computing in collaboration with the Mona School of Business and Management (MSBM).  Funds acquired through the initiative stand at over JA $38 million to date.

Professor Mansingh is a member of the steering committee of the CARICOM Girls in ICT Partnership. She is co-chair of JamCoders a four-week free residential coding camp for 50 high school students with the lead sponsor being Chronixx. Her public service also includes current Chairmanship of eGov Jamaica Ltd., Vice-President – Innovation and Education of the Jamaica Digital and Technology Alliance (formerly Jamaica Computer Society), and current membership on the Board of Directors of the Jamaican National Financial Group Limited.

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