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Dr. Abubaker Matovu Waswa

Head, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering – Makerere University

He lectures and undertakes research in the field of telecommunications and computer engineering within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He previously served as an Experienced Solution Architect at Ericsson where he was responsible for telecommunications network designs and project management of network deployments. He also held Network Planning Engineer positions within Uganda’s
network operators – MTN Uganda and Uganda Telecom.
He has publications in international conferences/journals with his research interests
being in the engineering of evolving telecommunication systems, currently focusing
on device-to-device (D2D) communication, internet of things (IoT) and smart networking. He is enthusiastic about applying/adapting the various innovations and/or information & communication technologies (ICT) to the dynamic needs and challenges of society