Dr. Barakabitze is a Distinguished International Associate of the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, 2024 - 2025. Dr. Barakabitze is recognised as the BEST Male ICT Researcher of 2021, an award that is awarded by the ICT Commission of Tanzania. He was also the BEST Young Researcher of the Year 2021, an award from the Research and Innovation Committee of SUA. Dr. Barakabitze is also recognised as the 2015 outstanding International Graduate Student of Chongqing University, China due to his excellent performance. He was a visiting researcher in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy and the ITU- T Standardization Department in 2016 and 2017, respectively. Dr. Barakabitze has served as a discussant for PhD concept notes, PhD proposals and PhD theses presented by PhD candidates at SUA and other Universities. He has also participated in preparing different important national documents including the National Digital Skills Development Framework and National Digital Education Strategy 2024/25 – 2029/30
He has led/participated with various research teams in several national and international projects, funded by the Government of Tanzania and international donors including:
- (a) AI –driven Internet Video Streaming Services Quality –Management and Energy Efficient Approaches in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles for 5G and 2030 Networks,
- (b) Enhancing Farm-Scale Crops Yield Prediction using Machine Learning in Internet -of-Agro-Things in Tanzania, (b) Morogoro Youth Empowerment through the Establishment of Social Innovation (YEESI) Lab for Problem-Centred Training in Machine Vision: (www.yeesi.org),
- (c) Prediction of Diagnostic Accuracy using Big Data Analytics and Visualizations from Trained African Giant Pouched Rats for Tuberculosis Detection at SUA APOPO,
- (d) Integrated Machine Learning Internet of Things (IoT) Adaptive Smart Cloud Farming System for Small-Scale Farmers in Tanzania, and
- (e) Enhancing Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Sustainability in Higher Education in Africa (EEISHEA)- (https://eeishea.org). These projects are funded by various national and international organisations/agencies such as the Government of Tanzania, IDRC/SIDA, EU Commission, UKRI, IRC, Data Science Africa, UNESCO and many others.
Dr. Barakabitze has over 70 publications in International peer-reviewed conferences and journals with 1720 citations and h-index of 17 (as of 20th April 2024). Dr. Barakabitze has served as a technical committee chair in several national/international conferences.
Dr. Barakabitze is a Reviewer for various journals and serves on technical program committees of leading conferences focusing on his research areas. His research interests are artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital teaching and learning, digital and data -driven agriculture, telecommunication systems and network management, multimedia streaming QoE, 5G/6 and ICT4D.
Contacts: +255743968543
Email: alcardo.alex@sua.ac.tz