Mr.Blessing Kabasa

 

Qualifications

• Master in business Administration- Amity University India ( Pending :Second year)
• BSc Honors Degree in Electrical Engineering, University of Zimbabwe.
• CISCO Certified Networking Associate Exploration, UZ
• Zimbabwe Institute of engineers (ZIE) Graduate member

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Work Experience

Worked as an “O: Level mathematics teacher between 2008 and 2009. He was employed by the University of Zimbabwe from 2010 to 2012 as a Tutor and Computer lab Administrator. In October 2012 Mr Kabasa worked for Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company as a Graduate Engineer. Currently he is employed in the department of Electrical Engineering as a teaching Assistant Lecturer.

Publications

[1] B.Kabasa,Online monitoring of lightning incidence in rural Zimbabwe, 2013 IEEE International Conference, IEEE Journal “Industrial Technology (ICIT)”, 2013.

Office Assistant

 

Qualifications

• National Certificate  in Secretarial Studies    (Pitman) - 1994
• Diploma in Audio Typing-  2005
• Word perfect 5.1 Advanced – 1997
• Lotus 123 Advanced – 1997
• Microsoft Excel 5.0 1996
• Receptionist course 1993
• Client & Customer Care – 2009
• Data- Ease from Departmental Level up to Faculty Level

Work Experience

• 1993-1996: NEHAMS (Pvt) Ltd - Receptionist/Typist
• June 1996- Dec 1996: Ministry of Local Govt (Japanese International Cooperation Project)  - Secretary
• March 1999- June 1999: Murray & Roberts Construction Zimbabwe -Typist Receptionist
• June 2003- November 2003: Twilight Advertising Zimbabwe - Administrative Secretary
• Dec 2003 to date : University of Zimbabwe, Electrical and Electronic Department   Office Assistant

 

Senior Lecturer

Qualifications

• Eng, MIEEE(USA), MZweIE
• PhD (UJ, South Africa) – 2011-2015
• MSc (BUAA, P. R. China) – 2005-2008
• MBA (ZOU, Zimbabwe)-2009
• M IT (SAQA EVAL) (RSA)
• BSc (Hon) Electrical Engineering (UZ)- 1995-1999
• Adv Dip in Radar Engineering Technology (PLA Air Force Radar Academy-P.R. china)
• Dip Defence and Security Studies (UZ)- 2004
• Dip Aircraft Engineering (Avionics) (Class 1 Journeyperson) (AFZ)-1989 -1993
• FTC Telecommunication Technicians (City & Guilds of London Institute)-1992
• Certificate: HF Data/Voice Communication Systems (T1285), Siemens, 1994
• Certificate: CHX 210 Communication Equipment, Siemens, 1995
• Certificate: Principles of Computer Aided Design Using AutoCAD, UZ, 1999
• Certificate: Theoretical & Practical Training for Thermal Use of Solar Energy, Austrian Development Cooperation-Soltrain & University of Zimbabwe, 2014
• Certificate: New Way of Understanding Electrical Circuits, Web and Multimedia Integration, University of Zimbabwe, University of British Columbia and Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), 2016.
• Certificate: Solar Cells and LEDs; Theory, Design and Implementation for Sustainable Electricity Generation and Lighting, University of Zimbabwe, University of British Columbia and IEEE, 2017

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Research Interests

• Signal processing.
• Microwave Engineering.
• Radar (Airborne &Ground-based).
• Aircraft Engineering (Avionics) and UAV Technologies
• Communication Engineering
• Control Engineering.
• Remote Sensing

Work Experience

Dr P Manyere is currently with University of Zimbabwe as a senior lecturer in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department as well as the Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering Department. Dr Manyere has been with the University of Zimbabwe since 2009. He teaches a wide range of Electrical and Electronic topics including Electrical Principles, Advanced Electrical Principles, Electromagnetics, Microwave Engineering, Analogue Electronics, Navigation Systems, Control Systems, Digital Signal Processing, Radar Technology and Communication Skills for Aviation Scientists. He is a member of the Institution for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE- USA). The Senior lecturer has vast lecturing experience at other universities and colleges such as University of Johannesburg (B Tech), WUA (MIS), Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) which was former Polytechnic of Namibia (PON) (B Tech), Zimbabwe National Defence University, School of Academic and Staff Training (SAST-AFZ), School of Technical Training (SOTT-AFZ) and the School of Flying (SOFT-AFZ). The last three AFZ Schools are for Staff Development in the AFZ. Dr P Manyere is an experienced supervisor and mentor to BSc, B Tech, MSc and PhD student research. He has been an external research projects evaluator and examiner for Namibia University of Science and Technology since 2014 and WUA (MIS) in 2013.

Dr Manyere initially trained as an Aircraft Engineer (AFZ) in the field of Avionics (Aircraft Radio and Telecommunications) and qualified in 1993 as a Class 1 Journeyperson. He has therefore worked in various portfolios within the Zimbabwe Defence Forces as an Aircraft Engineer, Engineering Manager, Training Officer, Directing Staff, Research and Development Officer, Officer Commanding Engineering, Staff Officer responsible for Foreign Service, the Zimbabwe National Defence University (ZNDU) Deputy Dean for Faculty of Engineering, and University Senior Proctor. Dr Manyere was instrumental in the establishment of the Aeronautical Engineering Department at University of Zimbabwe and was the inaugural chairperson of the same department in 2017. He chaired the University of Zimbabwe’s Faculty of Engineering Quality Assurance Committee since for three years from 2017 and was also a member of the committee tasked to look into the establishment of the University of Zimbabwe Ethics Committee in 2018.

Dr Manyere was also very instrumental in the establishment of the Zimbabwe National Defence University (ZNDU) as a member of the University Council. A former Zimbabwe Defence College became a University in 2018. Dr Manyere played a key role to establish the Faculty of Engineering and the Aerospace Engineering Department and the Aviation Science Department at the Zimbabwe National Defence University (ZNDU) in 2018.

Dr Manyere has sat on a number of Boards/Councils and Committees including the National Manpower Development Advisory Council (NAMACO), the Tertiary Education Service Council (TESC), National Strategic Research and Development (NSRD), Johane Masowe Chishanu Apostles Trust (Dep Chairperson), Johane Masowe Chishanu Apostles International Relief and Development Foundation (JMCA IRDF) (Dep Chairperson), among others. Dr Manyere is also assisting Johane Masowe Chishanu Apostles Church with professional advice on a number of projects key among them, the establishment of Johane Masowe Chishanu Apostles Church University of Science, Technology and Innovation (JMCA USTI) in Songwe, Tanzania.

Fields of interest for research include Signal Processing, Remote Sensing, Radar Technology, Autonomous Vehicle Design and Development, Microwave Engineering, Aircraft Engineering (Avionics), Communication Engineering, and Control Engineering.

Publications

[1] E Chikuni, M Tobias, O Okoro, S Oti, Peter Manyere, Elisha Mabunda. “Simulated economic evaluation of changing from CFLs to LED lighting”. ACRID'17: Proceedings of the EAI International Conference on Research, Innovation and Development for Africa. Publisher: ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering) April 2018, EAI ISBN 978-1-63190-160-7 

[2] Peter Manyere, Edward Chikuni, Joseph Mudare, Emmanuel Rashayi, Thanks Marisa. “Long Duration Linear Frequency Modulated Pulse Based Spotlight Synthetic Aperture Radar Sub-image Reconstruction Error Reduction Technique”. ACRID'17: Proceedings of the EAI International Conference on Research, Innovation and Development for Africa. Publisher: ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering), April 2018, EAI ISBN 978-1-63190-160-7

[3] Liberty Mutauranwa, Thanks Marisa, Peter Manyere, Emmanuel Rashayi. “The development and Application of a Smart Ultrasonic Sensor IP-Core in a Mobile Autonomous Robot. ACRID'17: Proceedings of the EAI International Conference on Research, Innovation and Development for Africa. Publisher: ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, April 2018, EAI ISBN 978-1-63190-160-7

[4] Manyere P, Nel AL. “Image Recovery by 2-D Least Mean Square Adaptive Method’ Proceedings of the IEEE, Africon 2013, ISBN 978-1-4673-5940-5, pp 563-569, Sept 2013.

[5] Manyere P, Nel AL. “Algorithm Performance Indexing through Parallelism” (International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS), Mauritius, IEEE ISBN 978-1-4673-9354-6/15@2015>

[6] Peter Manyere, Nel AL. “Development of Segmentation-Based Image Formation Algorithms for Spotlight-Mode Synthetic Aperture Radar”, University of Johannesburg, Library, May 2014.

[8] Tinotenda H Simango, Peter Manyere, Tawanda Mushiri, “Anomaly Detection of Network Traffic using Machine Learning for the Minimization of Revenue Leaks” SAJET, ISSN: 2026-8955, 2023.

[9] Struggle Muponda, Tecla Mlambo, Mukonoweshuro, Tawanda Mushiri, Marvellous Moyo and Peter Manyere, “Towards the design and implementation of an artificial neural network (ANN) model in psychiatric diagnosis: Case of Parirenyatwa Hospital Psychiatric Unit”, SAJET, ISSN: 2026-8955, 2023.

[10] Joseph Tawanda Singadi and Peter Manyere.  “Design and Analysis of the behaviour of Sierpinski Fractal Curve Antennas for multiband wireless communication”, JSESD, 2021

 

 

Lecturer: Dr Thanks Marisa

 

Qualifications

 

• PhD (UniBE, Switzerland)
• MPhil (NUST, Zimbabwe)
• Grad ICSAZ
• BSc (HON) Electronic Engineering (NUST)
• Mixed Signal IC Design (Euro Practice, UK)

 

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Work Experience

Dr T Marisa is currently with University of Zimbabwe as a lecturer in the Electrical Department. He teaches a wide range of Electrical and Electronic topics including Electrical Principles, Advanced Electrical Principles, Power Electronics, and Digital Signal Processing. He has vast experience as a hardware design engineer and software developer. Fields of interest for research include Low Power Circuit Design, Analogue and Digital Signal Processing, Wireless Sensor Networks, Software Defined Radio and Medical Instrumentation.

Research Areas

1 - Low Power Mixed Signal Circuit Design,

2 - Analogue and Digital Signal Processing,

3 - Wireless Sensor Networks,

4 - Medical Instrumentation,

5 - Software Defined Radio and

6 - Embedded Systems

Research & Innovations

N/A

Research Fellowship

N/A

Intellectual Property

N/A

Research Contracts

N/A

Publications

[1] A. Haeberlin, T. Niederhauser, T. Marisa, J. Goette, M. Jacomet, D. Mattle, L. Roten, J. Fuhrer, H. Tanner, and R. Vogel. The optimal lead insertion depth for esophageal ECG recordings with respect to atrial signal quality. Journal of Electrocardiology, 46(2):158–165, March 2013.

[2] A. Haeberlin, T. Niederhauser, T. Marisa, D. Mattle, M. Jacomet, J. Goette, H. Tanner, and R. Vogel. Esophageal Long-Term ECG Reveals Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation. Circulation, 125(18):2281–2282, May 2012.

[3] A. Haeberlin, E. Studer, T. Niederhauser, M. Stoller, T. Marisa, J. Goette, M. Jacomet, T. Traupe, C. Seiler, and R. Vogel. Electrocardiographic ST-segment monitoring during controlled occlusion of coronary arteries. Journal of Electrocardiology, 47(1):29–37, January 2014.

[4] T. Marisa, T. Niederhauser, A. Haeberlin, R.A. Wildhaber, R. Vogel, M. Jacomet, and J. Goette. Bufferless Compression of Asynchronously Sampled ECG Signals in Cubic Hermitian Vector Space. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 62(12):2878–2887, December 2015.

[5] T. Marisa, T. Niederhauser, A. Haeberlin, R. Wildhaber, R. Vogel, M. Jacomet, and J. Goette. Pseudo Asynchronous Adc for Ecg Signal Acquisition. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2015. Submitted.

[6] T. Niederhauser, A. Haeberlin, T. Marisa, M. Jungo, J. Goette, M. Jacomet, R. Abächerli, and R. Vogel. Electrodes for Long-Term Esophageal Electrocardiogra-

phy. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 60(9):2576–2584, September

2013.

[7]  T. Niederhauser, A. Haeberlin, T. Marisa, D. Mattle, R. Abächerli, J. Goette, M. Jacomet, and R. Vogel. An optimized lead system for long-term esophageal electrocardiography. Physiological Measurement, 35(4):517, 2014.

[8]  T. Niederhauser, T. Marisa, Andreas Haeberlin, Josef Goette, Marcel Jacomet, and Rolf Vogel. High-resolution esophageal long-term ECG allows detailed atrial wave morphology analysis in case of atrial ectopic beats. Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 50(7):769–772, May 2012.

[9]  T. Niederhauser, T. Marisa, L. Kohler, A. Haeberlin, R.A. Wildhaber, R. Abächerli, J. Goette, M. Jacomet, and R. Vogel. A Baseline Wander Tracking System for Artifact Rejection in Long-Term Electrocardiography. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2015. Accepted.

[10]  T. Niederhauser, T. Wyss-Balmer, A. Haeberlin, T. Marisa, R.A. Wildhaber, J. Goette, M. Jacomet, and R. Vogel. Graphics-Processor-Unit-Based Parallelization of Optimized Baseline Wander Filtering Algorithms for Long-Term Electrocardiography. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 62(6):1576–1584, June 2015.

[11]  A. Haeberlin, T. Niederhauser, T. Marisa, H. Tanner, J. Goette, M. Jacomet, J. Fuhrer, and R. Vogel. The Esophageal ECG as a Novel Technique for Ambulant Heart Rhythm Monitoring. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, 22:S162–S162, October 2011.

[12] T. Marisa, T. Niederhauser, A. Haeberlin, J. Goette, M. Jacomet, and R. Vogel. Asynchronous ECG time sampling: Saving bits with Golomb-Rice encoding. In Computing in Cardiology (CinC), 2012, pages 61–64, September 2012.

[13] T. Marisa, T. Niederhauser, A. Haeberlin, J. Goette, M. Jacomet, and R. Vo-

gel. Asynchronous Time Encoding: An Approach to Sub-Nyquist Rate Sampling. Biomedizinische Technik, 2012.

[14] T. Marisa, T. Niederhauser, A. Haeberlin, J. Goette, M. Jacomet, and R. Vogel.

Turning Noise Into a Blessing., 2014. Talk presented at GCB symposium 2014.

[15] T. Niederhauser, A. Haeberlin, R. Vogel, T. Marisa, J. Goette, and M. Ja-

comet. Esophageal ECG: The challenge of electrode design. In 2011 IEEE Interna-

tional Workshop on Medical Measurements and Applications Proceedings (MeMeA),

pages 322–326, May 2011.

[16] T. Niederhauser, T. Marisa, Andreas Haeberlin, Josef Goette, Marcel Jacomet,

and Rolf Vogel. High-resolution esophageal long-term ECG allows detailed atrial

wave morphology analysis in case of atrial ectopic beats. Medical & Biological

Engineering & Computing, 50(7):769–772, May 2012.

[17] T. Niederhauser, S. Sanchez Martinez, A. Haeberlin, T. Marisa, J. Goette, M. Ja-

comet, and R. Vogel. Simultaneous registration of ECG and cardiac motion by

a single esophageal probe. In Computing in Cardiology Conference (CinC), 2013,

pages 651–654, September 2013.