Eric Umuhoza is a scholar-in-residence at Carnegie Mellon University Africa. Prior joining CMU-Africa, Umuhoza held different academic positions in European universities, including postdoctoral researcher and teaching assistant at the Department of Electronics, Informatics and Bioengineering - Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy); senior postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics - University of L’Aquila (Italy); and visiting scholar at the École des Mines de Nantes (France).

His research interests include (model-driven) software engineering, user interaction design, and big data management for Internet of Things.

Eric holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology and a Master of Science in Engineering of Computing Systems both obtained from the Polytechnic University of Milan (Politecnico di Milano).