Faustin Banda is a machine vision engineer who graduated from the University of Zambia and University College London. He has several years of experience developing imaging payloads and software development life cycles from the public and private sectors. He boasts about 15 years of experience developing imaging systems in research labs and teaching institutions, ten years of which have been in teaching and research institutions of Higher Learning.
Currently, he is the CEO of the National Remote Sensing Centre – Zambia, but he has continued to teach Programming and Numerical Methods, Machine Vision and Image Processing at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Previously, he worked for IBM Research Labs, UK and JP-Morgan Chase, developing applications ranging from fingerprint recognition systems to foreign exchange matching platforms.
His current research interests lie in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning as applied to classification
problems, including fraud detection. He is passionate about the hands-on building of CubeSats and satellite orbit
dynamics.