Baraka Maiseli received PhD degree in control science and engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China, in 2015, where he emerged as an outstanding international graduate. Between 2015 to 2017, Maiseli pursued his postdoctoral research at HIT. Between 2015 and 2020, he has been working with the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) as lecturer. From 2020 onwards, Maiseli been serving as Senior Lecturer at UDSM. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 publications, and is the peer reviewer of several international journals: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Signal Processing, Digital Signal Processing, IET Biometrics, Neurocomputing, Pattern Recognition, IET Image Processing, IET Signal Processing, Tanzania Journal of Science, IEEE Transactions on Education, Inverse Problems, and Recent Patents on Computer Science, among others. His research interests include deep neural networks, machine vision, image and video processing, robotics, mechatronics and their engineering applications, and embedded electronics.

Dr. Fatuma Simba received a Ph.D degree in 2012, awarded by both the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania and Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden. She graduated her Master’s degree majoring in Secure Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network (IPSec-VPN) Connectivity, in 2005 and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics Science and Communication, in 2001, both from the UDSM. Her research interest is on the connectivity technologies for broadband access networks. Within this area, she is particularly interested in the performance evaluation of broadband wireless networks in delivering multimedia contents for services such as eLearning. She is currently a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Information and Communication Technologies (CoICT), UDSM, Tanzania.

Mercy Mbise completed her undergraduate studies (Hons. BEng Computer Engineering) at the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, University of Essex, United Kingdom in July 2000. She commenced a PhD degree programme in the same Department, undertaking research in Video Coding and Multimedia Streams Interaction over IP Networks. She completed her PhD studies in December 2004, and joined University of Dar es Salaam’s the then Computer Science Department in February 2006 as a lecturer. Her research interests include audio, image and video processing, video coding, video streaming, multimedia systems, multimedia transport over IP networks, QoS and QoE for distance-learning applications.