# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/therese-kirongozi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:36:08.364Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/therese-kirongozi"
name: "Thérèse Kirongozi"
slug: "therese-kirongozi"
description: "Thérèse Izay Kirongozi is a Congolese industrial engineer. She is notable for designing traffic robots that were initially placed in two locations in Kinshasa towards the end of 2013. By 2015 five robots were in use in Kinshasa and one in Lubumbashi. The use of robots as traffic lights may be unique to the Democratic Republic of Congo."
tagline: "Congolese robotics engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Traffic_robot.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1973-06-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.09
  momentum:             1.612903225806452
  historical:           7.273146666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump