Omar F. Hamad has been IEEE member since 1997. He graduated PhD (Computer Engineering) from Multimedia Data Communications Laboratory, School of Electronics and Computer Engineering at Chonnam National University, Korea, in February 2008. Respectively, in July 1998 and February 2000, Omar got BE and ME (Microwave) from the department of Electronics and Communications Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India. Since July 2002, Dr. Omar has been a Telecommunications Engineering Assistant Lecturer (2002-2008) and Lecturer (2008-To date), University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He is a member of NEPAD Council and technical committees in many international conferences and workshops. His interest is in Telecommunications Systems, DSP, and Bandwidth Calculus in Overlay Multimedia Multicasting Systems, RDMA, FTTH, and Multimedia Delivery over PLC Networks. Between 2010 and 2011, he has been a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Telecommunications Research Group in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. He is an author of a book “Analog, Digital and Multimedia Telecommunications: Basic and Classic Principle.”

Eng. Dr. Collether John received B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 1999 and Masters degree n Electronics’ Engineering and degree in Ph.D. degree in Computing and electonics Engineering from the University of Essex United Kingdom in 2003. Currently she is a Lecturer in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, College of Information and Communication Technologies (CoICT), University of Dar es Salaam. She is involved in teaching and supervising undergraduate students and carrying out research and consultancy activities in the field of ICT. Her research interest and area of expertise is in portfolio optimization

Kwame Salum Ibwe. He is a holder of a Bachelor Degree in Electronics and Communication (BSc ESC.) from the University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania in 2004 and Master of Science (Digital Communications) from the University of Chalmers, Sweden in 2007. In 2014, He received his PhD. degree in Electronics and Communications, majoring in wireless communication systems from the University of Dar es Salaam – Tanzania. Currently, He is a Lecturer in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, College of Information and Communication Technologies (CoICT), University of Dar es Salaam. He teaches electronics courses for undergraduate students and real time systems at postgraduate level. His main research areas are information theory, wireless communication, signal processing techniques for medical technologies and problem based learning methodologies for engineering education. He is currently a Post-Doctoral student with the iGRID project.

Baraka Maiseli earned his Doctoral degree in 2015 from the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), PR China, where he was also awarded the honorary certificate as the best international scholar of the year. Currently, Maiseli pursues postdoctoral studies at HIT. He has published several articles in referred Journals, and is a verified peer reviewer for various international journals: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Neurocomputing, IET Biometrics, Signal Processing, and International Journal of Remote Sensing, among others. His research interests are in machine learning, computer vision, image and video processing, artificial intelligence, and embedded electronics. Maiseli works at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, as a lecturer. With more than 10 years of teaching experience at UDSM, Maiseli has been supervising both undergraduate and postgraduate students in their projects, researches, and practical trainings.

Prosper Mafole is a Lecturer in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering at the College of Information and Communication technologies (ICTs), University of Dar es salaam. He studied in Norway, Japan and Tanzania obtaining engineering degrees in electronic communication technologies.

Apart from teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses in telecommunications, Dr. Mafole conducts research in wireless communications. Specifically, he does modeling, analysis, design, implementation and performance evaluation of protocols and algorithms for energy efficient wireless networking. He has published a number of articles in international, peer reviewed journals. From time to time, he undertakes consultancy assignments in the broad area of ICTs especially their application in fostering socio-economic development in the least developed countries.

Dr. Mafole is a coach and mentor at the UDSM ICT incubator (UDICTI) . He has been actively involved in innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives towards developing ICT driven solutions to socio-economic problems by supporting millenials as they progress from ideation to setting up their technology start-ups.

Josiah Patrick Nombo received B.Sc. degree in Electronics Science and Communications from the University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2005, M.Sc. Degree in Electronics Engineering and Information Technology from the University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2010, and Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Science and Engineering (Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering) from the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania in 2016. Currently he is a Lecturer in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, College of Information and Communications Technology, University of Dar es Salaam. His is involved in teaching and supervising undergraduate and postgraduate students and carrying out consultancy activities in the field of ICT. His research interest include non invasive digital imaging systems, digital image processing and e-Learning.

Abdi T. Abdalla received the B.Sc. degree in Electronic Science and Communication and M.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering and Information Technology from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in 2006 and 2010, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia, in 2016. During his study at KFUPM, he was also a lecturer at the department of Electrical Engineering. He joined the academic staff of the University of Dar es Salaam as Tutorial Assistant in 2007. Before joining the University of Dar es Salaam, he was officially engaged as Advanced level Physics teacher in high-status schools in Zanzibar and became pre-eminent in the islands.Currently, he is a lecturer at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering of University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. His research interests include through-the-wall radar imaging, indoor target localization, sparse arrays processing, and application of compressive sensing to signal processing.

Khadija Mkocha received a B.Sc. degree and an M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in 2005 and 2009, respectively. She joined the academic staff of the University of Dar es Salaam as a Tutorial Assistant in 2007. Currently, she is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering of the University of Dar es Salaam pursuing her PhD. Her research interests include next generation networks, communication theory, statistical signal processing as well as programming. She also teaches basic electronics and communications courses and is deeply involved in clusters and incubation initiatives. She is also coordinating Practical Training activities at the departmental level. She is a registered graduate engineer, currently pursuing registration as a professional engineer; she is also a member of the Institution of Engineers Tanzania (IET) and IEEE.

Ameen A. Chilwan is currently pursuing Ph.D. in Telematics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway after completing M.Sc. in Telematics (2011) from the same university. He received his B.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering in the year 2007 from the University of Dar es Salaam. He holds the position of Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering (ETE), College of Information and Communication Technologies (CoICT), University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), where he started as a Tutorial Assistant in the year 2008. His research interests include a spectrum of topics on Layer-3 of Computer Networks. Primarily, He is actively exploring the fields of Queuing Mechanisms, Routing Algorithms, Buffer Management, Software-Defined Networking, Cloud Computing and Real-Time Internet.

Mr. Moses Ismail received B.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2008 and M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the same University in 2013. Currently he is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, College of Information and Communication Technologies (CoICT), University of Dar es Salaam. He has been a trainer and coach at the University of Dar es Salaam ICT incubator (UDICTI) since 2011, where he has been grooming youth to develop ICT products and solutions using Human Centered Design approach. He is among the founding members of the Tanzania Data Lab where he has worked as M&E consultant, Business developer and Trainer since April 2016. Apart from doing consultancy in the field of ICT, he is also doing researches in human centered design, innovation and entrepreneurship. Currently he is also pursuing a PhD in the area of wireless communications where he is exploring the use of TV White Space to deliver broadband services to rural areas in Tanzania.

Ms. Angelina Misso received her B.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering and M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2009 and 2013 respectively. She joined the University of Dar es Salaam as a Tutorial Assistant in 2010.

Currently, Ms. Angelina is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, College of Information and Communication Technologies (CoICT). She is a young researcher with research interest in wireless communication technologies and eLearning. She has interest in innovation and she is a coach in UDSM ICT Incubator (UDICTI).

Moreover, she is a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and a Registered Graduate Engineer with Engineers’ Registration Board (ERB).

Ms. Eva Shayo is an Assistant lecturer in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. She received her BSc and MSc in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania in 2008 and 2015 respectively. Her research interests are in Wireless Communication, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Signal Processing and Neural Network.

Nassor Ally holds a Master of Science Degree in Electronics Engineering and Information Technology of the University of Dar es Salaam. His Masters Research work was routing seismic data using ISA (iLab Shared Architecture) platform. . His research interests are in wireless communication, Photonics, Signal Processing, Embedded Electronics system and Electronics design. He is an Assistant lecturer in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering.

Marshed Mohamed (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) received his M.Sc. degree from Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, in 2012. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.

Rahabu F. Mwang'amba completed her Bsc. in Telecommunications Engineering degree in 2015 at the University of Dar es Salaam(UDSM). She is a tutorial assistant in the department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, College of Information and Communication Technologies( CoICT) at UDSM. She joined the department in December 2015 and she is involving in assisting teaching undergraduate students. Currently she is pursuing her Masters degree in Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Dar es Salaam. Her research interests is in wireless communications.

Chediel K. Raphael graduated from the Dar es salaam Institute of Technology (DIT) with Advanced Diploma in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering in 2002. He obtained his Masters degree in Engineering Management (MEM) from the University of Dar es salaam in 2008. He specialized in Engineering Project Management. He attended several professional courses on microelectronics engineering and computer hardware maintenance in Japan and India respectively. His areas of competence include repair and maintenance of computer hardware and all other electronic equipments. He is also an expert in the management of electronic wastes. Currently he is working with the department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering as a Senior Laboratory Engineer. He is involved in the supervision of practical courses in electronics. He is a registered Graduate Engineer with Engineers Registration Board (ERB) of Tanzania.

Godwin Mruma Gadiel received Bsc. Electronics Science and Communications and Msc. Electronics Engineering and Information Technology in 2008 and 2013 respectively, at the University of Dar es salaam, in Tanzania. Currently he is pursuing PhD in Electrical and Information Engineering at Seoul National University of Science and Technology in South Korea.