Dr. Innocent Nyalala - Personal Website

Official website of Dr. Innocent Nyalala, Assistant Professor of Data Science & AI at IIT Madras Zanzibar.

About

This website showcases the academic profile, research work, publications, and achievements of Dr. Innocent Nyalala, who serves as:

• Assistant Professor of Data Science and AI at IIT Madras Zanzibar
• Associate Research Fellow at Wadhwani School of Data Science & AI, IIT Madras Chennai
• Principal Investigator of SAAIL Lab (Sustainable AI for Agriculture & Intelligent Livelihoods)

Research Focus

• Artificial Intelligence for Agriculture
• Healthcare AI and Medical Imaging
• Computer Vision
• Machine Learning and Deep Learning
• Natural Language Processing (Swahili)
• Precision Agriculture
• Responsible AI Development

Structure

• index.html — homepage (profile, latest news, latest lab output, contact)
• research/, publications/, news/, courses/ — main content sections
• faq/, work-with-me/, media-kit/ — prospective student/collaborator/press pages
• data/ — JSON files driving news, courses, and live metrics (edit these, not the HTML, to update content)
• .github/workflows/ — automation for posting news via issue form and refreshing citation metrics

Technology

Static HTML/JS with Font Awesome. Styling is Tailwind CSS, compiled and purged at build time (css/tailwind.css) rather than loaded from Tailwind's CDN — the CDN build is explicitly unsuitable for production (ships the full unminified framework and recompiles in-browser on every load). Content that changes regularly (news, course listings, citation counts) is data-driven from JSON in data/ and courses/data/, not hand-edited in HTML, so it stays consistent across pages.

Local Development

Open index.html directly in a browser to view the site as-is. If you change any Tailwind utility classes in the HTML, rebuild the compiled CSS:

npm install
npx tailwindcss -i css/tailwind-source.css -o css/tailwind.css --minify

Editing this site

This is a public repository — anyone can view or fork it, but only accounts explicitly added as collaborators can push changes. Currently that is only the repository owner. Branch protection on main blocks force-pushes as an extra safeguard.

Contact

• Email: innocent@iitmz.ac.in
• Website: https://inyalala.github.io
• LinkedIn: Dr. Innocent Nyalala
• Google Scholar: Profile

License

© 2026 Dr. Innocent Nyalala. All rights reserved.