Mussa Dia received his B.Sc. degree in computer engineering and information technology from the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania, in 2008, his M.Sc. degree in telecommunication engineering from the University of Dodoma (UDOM), Tanzania, in 2011, and his Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), China, in 2017. He is currently a Senior Lecturer and the Dean of the School of Computational and Communication Science and Engineering (CoCSE), The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Tanzania. He is also a Deputy Leader of the Centre of Excellence for ICT in East Africa (CENIT@EA). He has successfully supervised/co-supervised more than 30 M.Sc. students and more than seven Ph.D. students to graduation. He has published more than 70 articles in highly reputable journals. His research interests include digital signal processing, fractional Fourier transform signals and systems, physical layer security, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antennas, and wireless communication systems.