Dr. Ruthbetha Kateule is a Tutorial Assistant in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Information and Communication Technologies. She completed her first degree in BSc. Computer Science at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) in 2009. She joined the University of Dar es Salaam- CoICT in 2010 as a Tutorial Assistant. Her main research areas of Interest; Software Architecture, Modeling and Transformations.

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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I am a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Information and Communication Technologies (CoICT), University of Dar es Salaam. Software Engineering and Information Systems are my main areas of research, teaching and consultancy. Specifically, my Software Engineering research covers the following areas: software smells, clone detection, mining software repositories, empirical software engineering, automated software testing (acceptance test-driven approaches), and static and dynamic program analysis. As well, I am keen about research on the design, development, implementation,evaluation, and interoperability of Information Systems, particularly in the context of developing countries. I am always happy to be contacted for a chat by students or researchers working or wanting to work around these areas. I have a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Manchester, UK (2020), an MSc in Computer Science from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India (2012), and a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Dar es Salaam (2009). From January 2016 to June 2019, I worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, teaching Software Engineering courses. I have also been working as an academic in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Information and Communication Technologies, University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), where I joined as a tutor in 2009 and subsequently became an Assistant Lecturer in 2012. My teaching at UDSM has also has been mainly in Software Engineering and Programming. I am a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and a member of the Centre for Development Informatics, University of Manchester. Also, since 2009, I have consulted widely in the area of Health Information Systems.More information about me can be found at lepebina.github.io

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.

James Chambua is currently a Lecturer and Postgraduate Studies Coordinator at the Computer Science and Engineering Department of the University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. He received his BSc with Computer Science in 2004, MSc in Computer Science in 2009 from the University of Dar-es-Salaam and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology at the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) in Beijing, China. His research interests include improving understanding, design and performance of Machine Learning algorithms, recommender systems, information retrieval and big data analytics techniques and visualizations. Application of data mining, AI techniques, statistics and e-learning systems. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Wilbard B. Nyamwihula received his BSc. in Electrical Engineering and MSc. in Computer Science in 1999 and 2008 respectively from University of Dar es Salaam.Mr. Nyamwihula worked with Millicom International for Cellular (MIC) Tanzania the then Mobitel currently known as TiGO from 2000 to 2002 as Switch Engineer in 2000 to 2001 and IT Supervisor in 2001 to 2001 and Security Group (T) Ltd as IT Manager in 2002 to 2005. Mr. Nyamwihula embarked in MSC. studis in Computer Science at the then Department of Computer Science of University of Dar es Salaam in September, 2005 and completed in January, 2008. Mr. Nyamwihula joined University of Dar es salaam as Assistant Lecture in May, 2008. Currently, Mr. Nyamwihula is in final stage of PhD research in pervasive computing systems and applications focusing on uncertainty and vagueness modelling for semantic web languages. His research interests include Cloud computing, Data Science and Big data analytics, semantic web technologies (ontology, knowledge representation and reasoning formalisms, semantic web languages) and uncertainty and vagueness modelling for pervasive computing systems and applications.

Salome Maro holds a Bsc in Computer science from the University of Dar es salaam and an Msc in Software Engineering from Gothenburg university. She is now a PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers | University of Gothenburg. Her main research focus is on improving traceability practices in the development of embedded systems with a focus on processes and tools for traceability management. She is currently the project lead for the open source traceability management tool Eclipse Capra.

Dr. Kennedy F. Mwakisole received B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2004 and Master of Science (Computer Science) of the University of Dar as Salaam in 2008. Currently, he is working as Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Information and Communication Technologies (CoICT), University of Dar es Salaam. Currently, He is doing a PhD at the University of Dar es Salaam in the area of cloud computing in education. His reserach areas include cloud computing, elearning, mobile computing, Database management systems, Data mining and knowledge discoveries.

Mathew is a Commonwealth Scholar, a researcher in Information Systems, Digital Health Systems and Implementations of ICT Projects, and a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He. He did his PhD in Health Informatics at the University of Leeds, in the UK, focusing on Digital Health Systems Implementations. Before joining his PhD programme he did an MPhil in Research Methods and Skills at Maastricht School of Management in The Netherlands (2012) and MSc in Health Informatics at the University of Dar es Salaam (2011). He has a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science and Statistics from the University of Dar es Salaam (2006).

Mathew has research interest in Implementation of ICT projects and Organisational Change in the context of developing countries with a focus on digital health systems, eHealth, mHealth, health information systems, and evaluation of implementation projects. He has diverse practical experiences in the field of ICT both in private and public sectors. Between 2002 and 2006 he worked with Habari Node Plc, an Internet Service Provider (ISP), in Arusha as an internet technician and later a supervisor in the cable network department. At Habari, he got hand-one practical experiences in different Internet technologies and connectivity, computer networking, computer maintenance, and management of ICT projects. After his BSc programme, he joined the headquarters of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) as a manager of a newly established Health-ICT unit where he worked with more than 30 faith based hospitals countrywide to set up ICT infrastructure and lead the implementation of digital health solutions.

Mathew joined UDSM in 2008 as a Tutorial Assistant and promoted to Assistant Lecturer in 2011. He has been involved in Implementation of several health information systems and digital health initiatives in the Tanzania under the Ministry of Health and other local and international stakeholders. He has provided technical expertise in systems requirements solicitation and analysis, systems design, systems analysis, software customisation, data quality, data analysis, training facilitations, and user support. Likewise, he has handled coordination and administrative roles in ICT projects like developing of technical financial proposals and writing technical reports. Through the Health Information Systems Programme (HISP) Tanzania team, he participated in the countrywide implementation of the Human Resource for Health Information Systems (HRHIS) and District Health Information System (DHIS2), among other initiatives. He is an experienced trainer in Information Systems use and implementation, involved in training systems users, junior managers, senior managers, and executives, both in public and private organisations.

Mathew has taught several undergraduate courses like Management of Software Projects; Systems and Organizations; Internet Programming and Applications; Microcomputer Applications; Health Information Systems, and Research Methods. Currently, he is teaching Systems Design and Analysis (undergraduate) and IT Projects and Change Management (postgraduate) and supervising postgraduate research students.

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