Dr. Ellen A. Kalinga is a holder of a Bachelor Degree in Engineering (B. Eng.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Mysore India in 1990 and Master of Science (Electronics and Information Technology) from the University of Dar as Salaam in 2001. In 2011, she received her PhD. degree in Computer Engineering and Information Technology, majoring in Software Engineering using Object-Oriented Analysis and Design approach from the University of Dar es Salaam – Tanzania. Currently, Dr. Kalinga is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Information and Communication Technologies (CoICT), University of Dar es Salaam. Dr. Kalinga teaches courses in Computer Engineering and Software Engineering using OOAD approach at undergraduate level and teaches C++ programming language and Systems Engineering at Postgraduate level. Her main research areas of interest are eLearning and Software Engineering.

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.

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Mr Fredrick Ishengoma received Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania in 1986 and Master of Science in Control Engineering from University of Bradford, UK, in 1988. From October 1992 to October 1993 he was at University of Southampton, UK, for Industrial Training.

Since 1986, he is an academician and consultant at University of Dar es Salaam before retirement in 2018. Currently, he is a part-time lecturer in the department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of ICT (CoICT), University of Dar es Salaam where he teaches courses in Computer Engineering particularly courses related to programming, control engineering and embedded systems.

Hellen Maziku received her PhD. (2016) and M.Sc. (2012) in Computer and Information Systems Engineering from Tennessee State University (TSU). She received her B.Sc. in Computer Engineering and Information Technology from University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania in 2009, where she emerged as the best final year student. She is a lecturer in the College of Information and Communication Technologies (CoICT) at UDSM. Her interests lie in; Human Centered Design, Cyber Security, Machine Learning, Software defined Networking and Cloud Computing. She is currently the research and innovation coordinator at CoICT. She is a 2017/2018 postdoc in the iGRID project, a project on Smart Grid Capacity Development and enhancement in Tanzania. Dr. Maziku also manages and coordinates all project activities under the Youth for Innovation (Y4C) hub, a collaborative project between UDSM and UNICEF. She is a recipient of the 2014 Helen Barrett Award for Excellence in Research. She emerged as a winner at the NSF Emerging Researchers Network Conference in Atlanta after presenting her machine learning geolocation algorithm to predict true location of users on the internet. She has worked on research projects funded by several agencies such as SIDA, UNICEF, USA Department of Homeland Security, Airforce Research Lab, USA Department of energy, and National Science Foundation. She has published her research work at well recognized conferences and journals such as IEEE’s MILCOM, ICNC and Elsevier’s COMCOM. She is an active member of IEEE, SWE and ERB

Jimmy T. Mbelwa, received B.Sc. (Hons.) in Computer Science and M.Sc. in Health Informatics from the University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2004 and 2010 respectively. He received the PhD degree in Computer Science and Technology from Beijing Institute of Technology, China in 2018. Currently, he is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He has been working on various projects that are aimed at developing and implementing information systems. He has published international conference and journal papers. His research interests include image processing, computer vision, machine learning, information systems and health informatics.

Joseph Cosmas is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He received his Bsc. Computer Science degree from University of Dar es Salaam, thereafter Msc. Information and Communication Systems Engineering from Wuhan University of Technology in Wuhan city, P. R. China. He is also holding a Ph.D. in Computer Science attained from the University of Dar es Salaam.

His research interests span both in Computer Networking and Network Science. Much of his work has been on improving the understanding, design, and performance of network algorithms and mobile computing. In the networking arena, he has worked on improving load balance in routing algorithm of mobile adhoc network (MANET) by enhancing multilayered functionalities of Internet Protocol (IP) to device security mitigation on mobile data connectivity, and web services workloads distribution in mobile data connectivity.