Khadija I. Mkocha received a BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Dar es Salaam in 2005, 2009, and 2020, respectively. She is a Graduate Engineer registered by the Engineers Registration Board (ERB), currently pursuing registration as a Professional Engineer. Also, Dr. Khadija is a member of the Institution of Engineers Tanzania (IET) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and is a registered Radio Frequency Communications professional by the Tanzania ICT Commission.

Dr. Khadija has been teaching various courses in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, including digital, wireless and high frequency communications. In addition, she has taught courses on satellite communications, industrial electronics and automation, and communication fundamentals, including information theory and statistical signal processing.

Her research is mainly on statistical signal processing and its evolution towards artificial intelligence, especially in improving other technologies, such as medical imaging and solar power harvesting. In addition, she has participated and led consultancies on building an innovation ecosystem platform, exploring TV white space for long range communications, and commercialization of research outputs.

Being passionate in enabling youths, she has significantly been involved in innovation support activities for the past 15 years. In her tenure as the college innovation coordinator, she championed the now very successful students-led incubation management.  She has published in different areas, including innovation support, traffic engineering, and body area networks.

In her private life, she prefers a “quiet day with a good book and a cup of coffee” kind of atmosphere – although most times she would be baking her days away if not making cold processed body soap bars.