Dajora Mouyombo Develops AI-Powered Incubators to Cut Infant Deaths

By : Melchior Koba

Date : mercredi, 10 septembre 2025 14:32

Combining advanced technology and public health, she offers an innovative solution to the challenge of infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa.

Dajora Floderma Mouyombo is a Congolese engineer specializing in industrial robotics and artificial intelligence. She is the founder and CEO of Datechinnova, a technology company focused on telemedicine.

Founded in 2022, Datechinnova develops health-sector solutions, with a particular focus on neonatology in Africa. The company combines robotics and artificial intelligence to improve medical care for newborns, especially premature babies, in low-resource settings. Its core product is a line of smart neonatal incubators.

These incubators provide continuous monitoring of newborns, automatically detecting vital signs and alerting medical staff when needed. The goal is to reduce infant mortality while easing the workload on hospital teams. "We offer hospitals and health centers a reliable, autonomous, and secure solution that improves the care of premature babies while facilitating the work of medical teams," the company said.

In addition to her work at Datechinnova, Mouyombo is an automation specialist for Congolese brewery BRASCO. She also teaches control systems, regulation, instrumentation, and automation at the International 2I Institute in Brazzaville.

She holds a professional bachelor's degree in automation and industrial IT from the Institut Université de la Côte in Douala, Cameroon, earned in 2016. She then earned a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering in 2017 and a master's degree in robotics, industrial vision, and artificial intelligence in 2019, both from the National Advanced Polytechnic School of Douala.

Her professional career began in 2014 as a design specialist at Electronik Programmable in Cameroon. In 2019, she completed an internship at Complexe Multi-Industriel du Cameroun (CMIC SA). The following year, she joined Société Agricole de Raffinage Industries du Sucre du Congo (SARIS Congo) as a control specialist. Between 2020 and 2022, she also worked as an instrumentation engineer at Dangote Industries in Congo.

In 2022, Mouyombo received the second prize for technological innovation from the Republic of Congo's Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications, and Digital Economy as part of the Denis-Sassou-N'Guesso national competition. In 2025, she was selected to represent Datechinnova at the OSIANE Challenge, which showcases the most promising startups in the Congo Basin.

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