Shubi Felix Kaijage is an Associate Professor of Electronics Engineering and Information Systems in the School of Computational and Communication Science and Engineering (CoCSE), at the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Arusha, Tanzania. He obtained Doctor of Engineering (Dr. Eng) degree from the University of Ryukyus, Japan, attained in 2011. His two-year post-doc research fellowship was carried out in 2011- 2013 at the Research Center of Terahertz Technology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, P. R. China.
Furthermore, Shubi has vast experience in management, whereby since 2017, for over 5 years (March 2017 to August 2022); has been serving in the capacity of a Dean of the School of Computational and Communication Science and Engineering (CoCSE). During his tenure, as Dean, successfully made three (3) ICT-based demand-driven curricula/programs which are now offered in the school of CoCSE. Moreover, for two (2) years, from 2015, he worked as a Head of the Department of Communication Science and Engineering, before being appointed as Dean of the school.
Prof Kaijage is the Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) for the Project, the Artificial Intelligence for Development (AI4D) Multidisciplinary Research Laboratory. Moreover, he is supervising several Master’s and PhD students' research works; todate over 28 Master’s and 4 PhD candidates have graduated with Master’s and PhD degrees, respectively. Prof Kaijage is a reviewer of numerous international scientific journals, including IEEE, IET, etc. Prof Kaijage has been invited and attended several technical and international talks.
Shubi is experienced in serving the boards in different capacities; he is serving as a chairman of the Board of Directors for the Government-owned company, the Tanzania Geothermal Development Company (TGDC). Also, he is serving as a member of the board of the Faculty of Business and Information Science (FBIS) at the Moshi Cooperative University of Moshi (MoCU). Moreover, he is a member of the Regional Research and Development Working Group (Research Communication Sub-Committee) for the East African Science and Technology Commission (EASTECO). Previously, for over 5 years, Shubi has served on the board of the school of CoCSE’s at the NM-AIST, a member of the Senate at the NM-AIST, and other numerous statutory committees within NM-AIST. Moreover, Shubi has served and still serves in different taskforces within the institution and outside in making several policies and in committees for different tasks, e.g. International Conferences, etc.
His area of specialization and research interests are in Optical fibers and photonic crystal fibers (PCFs), Fiber Optics Communication, Fiber to the home (FTTH), Terahertz wave technology, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Internet of Things (IoT), and Wireless Sensor Networks. Also includes the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Electronics and Information systems in the areas of the e-health management system, conservation and protection of natural resources, climate change, livestock & sustainable agriculture, food security and sustainability, etc.
In addition, since, 2011, for over two years worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in China and worked as a Research Assistant (RA) for about three (3) years during his PhD studies at the University of the Ryukyus, Japan. With over 80 scientific publications and over 50 conference presentations, he has earned numerous international scholarly awards as recognition of his scholarly works. Shubi is a member of International professional societies; including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE-Senior Member), the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and the Engineering Registration Board (ERB) of Tanzania.

• Fiber Optics and Optical Communication Systems
• Research Methods and Communication
• RFID Systems
• Applied Advanced Electronics
• Telecommunication Management and Policy

• Senior Member: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering-IEEE; Societies Photonics Society and Communication Society, smart grid community
• Member: Optica (Formerly, Optical Society of America (OSA))
• Member: The African Academy of Sciences (AAS)

• Best paper award, IEEE WCNC 2019 Workshop-2nd Workshop on Ultra-High-Speed, Low Latency & Massive Connectivity Communication for 5G/B5G, “Handover management in Dense Networks with coverage prediction from sparse Networks”, April 2019, Marrakech, Morocco.

Ongoing

• AI4D Africa’s Anglophone Multidisciplinary Research Lab (2021-2024).

Phased Out

• Innovation Seed Fund by COSTECH (Title: Development of a City Navigation Support System [CNSS] Prototype); 2016
• Photonic crystal logic devices, "Double-Hundred Project", Shenzhen Science and Technology Bureau, P. R. China
• Research on Tera-hertz photonic crystal fibers, CASTEP Project; P. R. China; 2013
• Research on Tera-hertz photonic crystal fibers, Shenzhen University Postdoctoral Research Project; P. R. China, 2013

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• Chairman: Board Of Directors Of The Tanzania Geothermal Development Company Limited (TGDC)
• Member: Regional Research and Development Working Group (Research Communication Sub-Committee) for East African Science and Technology Commission (EASTECO)