Yusuf Babatunde Lawal (orcid.org/0000-0002-2379-8057) is an Associate Professor at the University of Africa, Toru-Orua (UAT), Nigeria. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Computer Systems Engineering Department of the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), South Africa. He obtained a Bachelor of Technology (B Tech) degree in Applied Physics and Electronics, a Master of Technology (M.Tech.) degree and a Ph.D degree in Communication Physics from the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Nigeria. His areas of specialization include electronic instrumentation, radio wave propagation, fiber optics, terrestrial and earth-space satellite communication links with machine learning integration. He can be contacted via email at lawalyb@tut.ac.za.