Luzango Pangani Mfupe (Senior Member, IEEE) obtained his Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from the Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa.

He is a principal researcher at the CSIR, South Africa, as well as an innovator and entrepreneur with demonstrated leadership in local and international large and cutting-edge technology projects. He is technically skilled in dynamic spectrum management; and is experienced in television white spaces deployments, defence and civilian spectrum-sharing models, formulation of spectrum regulations and policies, development of geo-location spectrum databases, advanced wireless networks design and modelling, satellite communications, airborne wireless networks, artificial intelligence/machine learning for heterogeneous future wireless communications – such as 5G and beyond – computer simulations, lecturing, supervision of postgraduate students, and support for ICT-based small, medium and micro enterprises.

Mfupe holds international patents in wireless network technologies in several countries, and has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and conference papers, and edited conference proceedings. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Tanzania, and Vice Chair of IEEE DySPAN 1900.6b WG. He was Co-General Chair and Organising Committee Chair of the IEEE AFRICON 2021 Conference, Arusha, Tanzania. Mfupe is the Co-General Chair of the ICT4DA Conference 2022, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.

Expertise: Dynamic spectrum access and management, telecommunications technology, ICT for 4IR