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GASPER G. MWANGA

Senior Lecturer, Dar Es Salaam University College Of Education
Education:

Lappeenranta University of Technology – Finland Ph.D. (Science) (2014)

Teaching:

  • Linear Algebra
  • Ordinary differential equation
  • Numerical analysis
  • Partial differential equation
  • Mathematical Statistics
  • Abstract algebra
  • Linear Programming
  • Functions of single and Several Variables
  • Complex Analysis
  • Optimal Control Methods
  • Dynamical systems

Research:

Mathematical Epidemiology: - modeling the dynamics and effects of diseases such as; HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB,  Banana Wilt, Newcastle, Brucellosis, and Schistosomiasis. I also have great interests in modeling within-host disease dynamics. Furthermore, I have interest in the application of Optimal control approach to disease models. My research interest also extends to the applications of Bayesian Methodology to disease models.

Projects:

  • Efficacy of University Mathematics Curriculum in the Training of Secondary School Mathematics Teachers in Tanzani: DUCE Competitive Research and Innovation Grants – 2021. Reserachers: Dr. Florence Kyaruzi, Dr. Gasper Mwanga Honoratha Kihaga and Prof. Alejandro González-Martín
  • Open Source Software and Web-based Technologies to Enhance Early Grade Teaching and Learning. Funding: DUCE Competitive Research and Innovation Grants – 2020. Duration: 1 year (January – December 2021). Researchers: Dr. Elimboto Yohana, Dr. Gasper Mwanga, Dr. Zubeda Musa, Dr. Florene Kyaruzi and Mr Ambokile Okey.
  • Gasper G Mwanga Participate as Secondary Proposer of the European COST project titled:  Investigating Avant-garde Mosquito Repellent Nano-technologies as Control Measures for Mosquito Transmitted Disease. The COST Action CA 16227 (IMAAC) is supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020. www.cost.eu/actions/CA16227

Publications:

  1. Mwanga, G. G. (2022). Mathematical Modelling of Syphilis Transmission Dynamics: Impacts of Mass Media Report, Risky Sexual Behavior and Treatment. Tanzania Journal of Science, 48(1), 196-212.
  2. Mapinda, J. J., Mwanga, G. G., Nyerere, N., & Masanja, V. G. (2022). A mathematical Model to assess the Role of Neglected Control Techniques in the Dynamics of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt Disease.
  3. Ongodia, E., & Mwanga, G. G. (2020). Modelling Optimal Control of Heavy Alcohol Consumption on the Transmission Dynamics of HIV/AIDS. Journal of Education, Humanities and Sciences (JEHS), 9(2).
  4. Chuma, F. M., & Mwanga, G. G. (2020). Bifurcation Analysis of Newcastle Disease Eco-epidemiological Model in the Presence of Vaccination: A Case of the Backyard Chicken. Journal of Education, Humanities and Sciences (JEHS), 9(2).
  5. Lambura, A. G., Mwanga, G. G., Luboobi, L., & Kuznetsov, D. (2020). Mathematical model for optimal control of soil-transmitted helminth infection. Computational and mathematical methods in medicine, 2020.
  6. Lambura, A. G., Mwanga, G. G., Luboobi, L., & Kuznetsov, D. (2020). Modeling the Effects of Helminth Infection on the Transmission Dynamics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis under Optimal Control Strategies. Computational and mathematical methods in medicine, 2020.
  7. F.M Chuma, Gasper G. Mwanga, Stability analysis of Newcastle disease transmission model in village chicken.  I.J.Mathematical Sciences and Computing, 2019, 2, 1-18
  8. F Chuma., Mwanga, G. G., & Masanja, V. G. Application of Optimal Control Theory to Newcastle Disease Dynamics in Village Chicken by Considering Wild Birds as Reservoir of Disease Virus. Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2019.
  9. Furaha, C., Gasper, G.,& Damian, K. Modeling the Role of Wild Birds and Environment in the dynamics of Newcastle Disease in Village Chicken. Asian Journal of Mathematics and applications. Volume 2018.
  10. Tonny Kinene, Livingstone S. Luboobi, Betty Nannyonga, Gasper G. Mwanga, A mathematical model for the dynamics and cost effectiveness of the current controls of cassava brown streak disease in Uganda, Journal of Mathematical and Computational Science, Vol 5, No 4 (2015), 567-600.
  11. B. K. Nannyonga, G.G Mwanga, and L.S. Luboobi (2015). An optimal control problem for ovine brucellosis with culling.  Journal of biological dynamics, 9(1), 198-214.
  12. Gasper G. Mwanga, Heikki Haario  andVicenzoCapasso (2015). Optimal control problems of   epidemic systems with parameter uncertainties: Application to a two-age-classes transmission model for malaria transmission with asymptomatic carriers. Mathematical Biosciences, 261, 1-12
  13. Mwanga, G. G. (2014). Mathematical modeling and optimal control of malaria. PhD. Thesis, Lappeenranta University of technology, Finland.
  14. Gasper G Mwanga, Betty K. Nannyonga and Heikki Haario (2014) Optimal control of malaria  model with drug resistance in presence of parameter uncertainty. Applied Mathematical  Sciences,   Vol. 8, (55), 2701 – 2730.
  15. Betty Nannyonga, Gasper G Mwanga, Heikki Haario, Isambi S Mbalawata and MattiHeilio (2014). Determining parameter distribution in within-host severe Plasmodium  falciparum malaria.  Biosystems, 126, 76-84
  16. Gasper G. Mwanga and Heikki Haario. Optimal control of two age structured malaria model with model parameter uncertainty. Submitted to 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (2014).
  17. Gasper G Mwanga, Betty K. Nannyonga and Heikki Haario (2012): Spread of  Antimalarial  Drug Resistance in a Population with Superinfection, Applied  Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 6,  (118), 5877 – 5900.
  18. Gasper G Mwanga, 2007. Dynamical models of acute HIV infection: application to interpretation of seronegativity. M. Sc. Dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand.