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MERCY E. MBISE

Senior Lecturer

College of Information and Communication Technologies

Computer Science and Engineering

Biography

Dr. Mercy Mbise is a computer engineer and works as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and PhD in Electronic Systems Engineering, both from the University of Essex, UK. She is currently the Head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Information and Communication Technologies. She has published numerous articles in international and national journals, as well as in conferences. 

She has extensive experience in local and international institutional cooperation, stakeholder engagement and cooperation in ICT4D projects, some of which are SEMA (Sensors, Empowerment and Accountability - the project focused on how ordinary citizens in Tanzania can directly exact accountability from water and public health providers with a human sensor web) funded by the DFID; GeoICT and GeoICT4e (social innovations in Geo-ICT education at Tanzanian higher education institutions for improved employability) funded by The Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Resilience Academy (RA), which is a service model aimed at strengthening education in urban disaster-risk related challenges.  She has collaboratively applied and received research funds from funders such as The Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (HEI-ICI), The World Bank and DFID, and has collaboratively carried out several research projects at UDSM. 

She teaches and supervises Undergraduate and Postgraduate students in the areas of computer networks, multimedia systems, data communication, digital circuits, and information systems. Additionally, she has extensive experience in leadership and administration, having held numerous administrative positions over the long term at UDSM.

Research Interest

Multimedia Communication, Computer Networks, Image and Video Coding, E-Learning, Geospatial and ICT  Technologies

Contacts

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Projects

GeoICT4e (Social innovations in Geo-ICT education at Tanzanian HEIs for improved employability). 

Role: Coordinator and Expert (UDSM).

Funder: MFA Finland (Euro 149,500)

Partners: University of Turku, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Novia University of Applied Sciences, Sokoine University of Agriculture, State University of Zanzibar, Ardhi University, Moshi Co-operative University. 

Year: September 2020 – August 2024. 

GeoICT (Geospatial and ICT capacities in Tanzanian Higher Education Institutions). 

Role: Domain Expert.

Funder: MFA Finland (Euro 96,000) 

Partners: University of Turku, Sokoine University of Agriculture, State University of Zanzibar, Ardhi University. 

Year: May 2017 – March 2020. 

 

SEMA (Sensors, Empowerment and Accountability. 

Role: Postdoc Scientist

Funder: DFID, SNV, WB. 

Partners: University of Twente, SNV, Ministry of Water and Irrigation. 

Year: December 2015 – April 2017. 

 

Publications

  1. Anthony Kigombola, Mercy Mbise, Prosper Mafole, (2023) “Dinari: A blockchain lab for supporting blockchain learning, research, and innovation in Tanzania”, Journal of ICT Systems, Vol. 1 No. 1.
  2. Anthony Kigombola, Mercy Mbise, Prosper Mafole, (2023), “Path of Trust: An Off-Chain Performance Enhancement Algorithm for Public Blockchains”, Tanzania Journal of Engineering and Technology 2023, Vol. 42 No. 2.
  3. Mercy Mbise, Neema Mkayula, Masoud Mahundi (2024), “Investigating Factors of Interoperability of Electronic Medical Record Systems in Hospitals: A Narrative Literature Review”, Trends in Telemedicine and E-health, Volume 5, Issue 1.
  4. Muhomi, H & Mbise, M. (2017), “Development of Multimedia Teaching Aids for Selected Physics Sub-Topics from the the Topic of Simple Machine in Tanzanian Secondary Schools”, Journal of the Open University of Tanzania, Vol.24, Number 2.
  5. Jimmy T. Mbelwa, Qingjie Zhao, Yao Lu, Fasheng Wang, Mercy E. Mbise (2018), “Visual Tracking using Objectness-Bounding Box Regression and Correlation Filters”, Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol.27, Issue. 2.
  6. Jimmy T. Mbelwa, Qingjie Zhao, Yao Lu, Hao Liu, Fasheng Wang & Mercy Mbise (2018), “Objectness-based smoothing stochastic sampling and coherence approximate nearest neighbor for visual tracking”, The Visual Computer, International Journal of Computer Graphics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-018-1470-5
  7. Mremi, I., Chaula J. & Mbise, M. (2018), “Distribution of primary health care facilities in Mtwara District, Tanzania: availability and accessibility of services”, Tanzania Journal of Health Research, Vol. 20, No. 4, Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/thrb.v20i4.10
  8. Francis, B. & Mbise, M. (2021), “A Model for Mapping Combined Effects of Quality of Service Parameters and Device Features on Video Streaming Quality of Experience”, Tanzania Journal of Science, Vol. 47, Issue 1.
  9. Musa, R. & Mbise, M.  (2022), “Determinants of Software-as-a-Service Adoption in Small and Medium Enterprises in Tanzania”, The African Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 14, Issue 1.
  10. Mkayula N., Mbise, M. & Mahundi, M. (2022), “Approaches Towards Interoperability of Electronic Medical Records Systems: A Case of Selected Referral Hospitals in Tanzania”, Journal of Health Informatics in Africa, Vol. 9, No. 1.
  11. Mbise, M. & Simba, F. (2022), “Performance Evaluation of UDSM Network to Deliver Multimedia eLearning Contents: Case of CoICT”, Tanzania Journal of Engineering and Technology, Vol. 41, No. 4.
  12. Yola Georgiadou, Jeroen Verplanke, Juma Lungo, Mercy Mbise (2016), “Water Point Mapping in Tanzania: Making the voices of data collectors audible”, 7th Rural Water Supply Forum, Abidjan, December 2016
  13. Lissah, J. & Mbise, M. (2019) “Rate Adaptive Congestion Control Using Lookup Table Scheme to Enhance Quality of Experience”, 15th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2019, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, May 1-3, 2019, Springer.
  14. Mwasita H., Mtebe J. & Mbise M. (2022) “Towards Provision of Online Peer Assisted Learning: Understanding the Contemporary Participation Trends” 13th EAI International Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries, 1– 3 December, 2021, Zanzibar, Tanzania.
  15. Kigombola A., Mbise M. & Mafole P. (2022), “On Blockchain Performance Enhancement: A Systematic Map of Strategies Used” Sixth Tanzania Annual ICT (TAIC) Conference, 26 – 28, October 2022, Zanzibar, TANZANIA, Volume 46, Issue 3.
  16. Kigombola A., Mbise M. & Mafole P. (2023), “Dinari: A blockchain lab for supporting blockchain learning, research and innovation in Tanzania” Journal of ICT Systems, Volume 1, Issue 1.
  17. Kigombola A., Mbise M. & Mafole P. (2023), “Path of Trust: An Off-Chain Performance Enhancement Algorithm for Public Blockchains” Journal of Engineering and Technology, Volume 42, No. 2.
  18. Mercy Mbise, John Woods, “Evaluation of Factors Governing Optimisation of Coded Multimedia for Best Virtual Presence”, EPSRC Postgraduate Conference, Keele University, UK, April 2001.
  19. Mercy Mbise, John Woods, “Evaluation of Stream Interaction of Coded Multimedia for Videoconference and Distance Learning”, EPSRC Postgraduate Conference, Nottingham University, UK, April 2002
  20. Mercy Mbise, John Woods, “Development of Arbitration Policy by Examination of Stream Interaction”, Proceedings of World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, July 2002, Orlando Florida, USA, Vol. IX, pp. 448-454
  21. Mercy Mbise, John Woods, “Development of End-user Quality of Experience Metric Based on Network and Application Level QoS Metrics”, EPSRC Postgraduate Conference, Exeter University, UK, April 2003
  22. Mercy Mbise, John Woods, “Development of Quality of Experience Metric using Application and Network Level QoS Considerations”, Proceedings of World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando Florida, USA, July 2003
  23. Mercy Mbise, John Woods, “Evaluation of Latency Effects of a Long-term Burst for Selective Removal of Dependant Packets”, In Proc. 4th European Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, London, UK, April 2003, pp. 500-505
  24. Mercy Mbise, John Woods, “Multimedia Stream Interaction: Arbitration of Video Latency Effects Caused by Long-term Bursts”, In Proc. Picture Coding Symposium, PCS 2003, 23-25 April 2003, Saint Malo, France, pp.107-110
  25. Mercy Mbise, John Woods, “Multimedia Interaction and a Quality of Experience Metric based on Application and Network Level Considerations”, International Conference on Packet Video, 28-29 April 2003, Nantes, France
  26. Mercy Mbise, John Woods, “Application and Network level Arbitration for Development of Quality of Experience Metric”, IADIS 2003 Proceedings, IADIS International Conference on e-Society, 3-6 June 2003, Lisbon Portugal
  27. Mercy Mbise, John Woods, “Arbitration by Selective Removal of Temporally Dependent Redundancies”, International Conference on Visual Information Engineering, 7-9 July 2003, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, Conference Publication 495, pp. 9-12
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