Prof. Mbuyu Sumbwanyambe is Professor and Head of Department for Electrical and Smart Systems Engineering in the School of Engineering and Built Environment at the University of South Africa. He is a Council and Fellow of SAIEE, a member of IEEE and international association of engineers (IAENG). He has a wide range of industry experience, working as consultant, project engineer and a researcher at the UNISA. He has held workshops and presented at various government institutions on the value of ICTs for social and economic development. He is keen promoter of collaboration between industries, the university and other universities in the SADC region. Prof. Mbuyu Sumbwanyambe has a multi-disciplinary background and has varied research interests, which include Risk management, Application of Game theory in telecommunication, digital communication, resource management, regulation and policy issues, telecommunication and ICT engineering, economic and social ICT delivery, Energy efficiency and Demand side management and AI, and information systems evaluation. He has reviewed several papers for IEEE and other various Journals, as well as acted as chair and invited panelist at numerous international conferences. He has contributed book chapters and published extensively in Journals and conference proceedings.https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1709-0607