Rufaro Musabayana

Rufaro Musabayana holds a BSc (Eng) in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cape Town and is currently completing an MSc in Chemical Engineering. Her experience includes data analysis, renewable energy projects, drone-based agricultural innovation, and various teaching roles in engineering, mathematics, and physics.

Her research interests include renewable energy systems, solar PV integration, data analysis and processing, and the application of image processing and geospatial data for energy planning.

Her master’s research aims to detect and segment rooftop solar panels from open-source aerial and satellite images using Python-based computer vision models. The objective is to contribute to the development of an open-source, independent tool that assesses the growth of distributed rooftop solar PV in South Africa and its impact on the country’s national energy landscape.