MUSA NDIAYE received his BEng in Electrical/Electronics Engineering from the Copperbelt University (Zambia) in 2011. He then obtained his MSc in Microelectronics and communications Engineering from University of Northumbria at Newcastle (United Kingdom) in 2013. He received his PhD with the Advanced Sensor Networks group at the University of Pretoria (South Africa) in 2020. He is a full-time Senior lecturer of electronics and computer engineering at the Copperbelt University. He is also a member of the Engineering Institution of Zambia. His research interests include software-defined wireless sensor networks, network management, sensor node hardware development and a wide range of Internet of Things technologies. Most recently he has focused on research surrounding all aspects of industrial informatics.