Författare: Dharm Singh Jat

Prof Dharm Singh Jat received his Master of Engineering and Ph D degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from a prestigious University of India. He is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Namibia’s University of Science and Technology (NUST). His research interests span the areas of multimedia communications, wireless and mobile technologies, SDN, network security, and roof computing. He has received more than 16 prestigious awards and has authored/co-authored over 160 publications. Prof Jürgen Sieck received his degree in Mathematics and Ph D in Computer Science from the Humboldt University, Germany. He is currently the Head of the Research Group “Informations- und Kommunikationsanwendungen” and Professor of Computer Sciences in HTW Berlin. His research interests are in AR, multimedia and mobile applications. In 2013 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from ONPU, Ukraine. Since 2013, he has been a Principal Investigator in the cluster of excellence “Bild Wissen Gestaltung” at Humboldt University. Since 2015, he has also been a Professor at NUST Windhoek. Prof Hippolyte Muyingi is the Associate Dean: Research, Faculty of Computing & Informatics, Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST). He was the Dean from 2014 to 2015 and held the Mobile Telecommunication Company (MTC) Endowed Chair in ICT (2009–2011). He led the Department of Computer Science, University of Fort Hare (UFH) and the NRF- and multi-industry-sponsored Telkom Centre of Excellence (2001-2008), and was awarded the Telkom Research Chair in ICT, for which there were 100 candidates. Muyingi is the co-founder of the South African Siyakhula Living Lab.Dr Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, a Professor of Computer Science, has lectured in Namibia since 1994. Her research and community development activities center on co-designing technologies with indigenous and marginalized communities in Namibia and Malaysia. She promotes dialogical and community-based co-design, applying a transcultural approach to the principles of action research. She has co-chaired numerous international conferences, co-authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications, supervised local and international students and received multiple grants. Dr Anicia Peters is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Computing and Informatics at the Namibia University of Science and Technology. She has a Ph D in Human Computer Interaction from Iowa State University. Dr Anicia’s research focuses on HCI, social networks and e-participation. She has a mixture of academic and industry experience having worked in Silicon Valley and Namibia. Her research work is published in the IEEE Transactions for Visualization and Computer Graphics, Computers in Human Behavior, Interacting with Computers and the ACM CHI Conference. In 2016, she chaired the International Culture and Computer Science Conference as well as the Africa Human Computer Interaction Conference (Afri CHI) both organized in-cooperation with ACM SIGCHI. Dr S H Nggada is an Associate Professor of Computer Information Science at Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE. He worked as Deputy Director/Associate Professor of Software Engineering at Namibia University of Science and Technology. Research interests include dependability analysis, software failure analysis, evolutionary algorithms and optimisation. He has Ph D in Computer Science (Hull, UK), MSc in Software Engineering