• Master of Science in Mathematical Sciences – AIMS Ghana (affiliated to University of Cape Coast).
• Bachelor of Science (Education), Mathematics (major) and Physics (minor).- Mzuzu University

• Mathematical/Statistical modelling

Department: Mathematics and Statistics

Rank: Lecturer

Email: kaminga.a@mzuni.ac.mw

Academic Qualifications

• PhD Public Health and Preventive medicine Epidemiology and Health Statistics (Central South University China )
• Master of Science in Mathematical Sciences – AIMS Ghana (affiliated to University of Cape Coast).
• Bachelor of Science (Education), Mathematics (major) and Physics (minor). – Mzuzu University

Research Interests

• Mathematical/Statistical modelling

Acadmic Qualififcations:

• Sc (Education), Mzuzu University, Malawi
• MSc Information Theory, Coding and Cryptography, Mzuzu University, Malawi
• PhD in Mathematical Cryptography, University of Trento, Italy
• Publications
  Musukwa, A and Sala, M.: On the linear structures of balanced function and quadratic APN
  functions. Cryptogr. Commun. (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12095-020-00431-5
• Musukwa, A.: The number of extended irreducible binary Goppa codes of degree (2`)
  m and
  length 2n + 1. Open Journal of Discrete Applied Mathematics, Vol. 2, No.1, (2019), pp
  01–13.
• Musukwa, A. and Kumwenda, K.: A bipartite graph associated with irreducible elements
  and group of units in Zn. International Journal of Applied Mathematics, Vol. 31, No. 1
  (2018), pp 149-169.
• Musukwa, A.: Counting extended irreducible binary Goppa codes of degree 2p and length
  2
  n +1. J. Math. Comput. Sci. Vol. 8, No. 1, (2018), pp 1-17.
• Magamba, K., Musukwa, A. and Ryan, J.A.: Enumeration of extended irreducible binary
  Goppa codes of degree 2m and length 2n +1. J. Algebra Comb. Discrete Appl., Vol. 4, No.
  3, (2017), pp 235–246.

Research Interests

• Boolean functions, Goppa codes, Lattices and their applications in cryptography
• Post-quantum cryptography

Department: Mathematics and Statistics

Rank: Lecturer

Email: manda.e@mzuni.ac.mw

Academic qualifications 

• PhD. Applied Mathematics (University of KwaZulu Natal, 2020)
• MSc Applied Mathematics (University of KwaZulu Natal, 2016)
• MSc Mathematical Sciences (African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Western Cape, 2014)
• BSc Education Sciences(University of Livingstonia, 2011)

Recent Publications

• Manda, EC & Chirove, F. Modelling coupled within host and population dynamics  of R5 and X4  HIV infection, Journal of Mathematical Biology(2018),76:1123, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-017-1170-1
• Manda, E.C., Chirove, F. Acute hepatitis B virus infection model within the host incorporating immune cells and cytokine responses. Theory Biosci.139, 153–169 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12064-019-00305-2
• Manda, Edna and Farai Chirove. “A theoretical model of chronic Hepatitis B  Virus with Sub-optimal adherence and drug resistance.” Mathematical Methods in the applied science(2020) https://doi.org/10.1002/mma.6829  

Research Interests

• Current research interests:
• Infectious and non-infectious disease modeling,
• Emerging infectious disease modeling,
• Pharmacokinetics modeling,
• In-host and population models,
• Data-based modelling,
• Multiscale modeling.

Department: Mathematics and statistics

Rank: Dean of Faculty and Senior Lecturer

Publications

• Luwanda, A. G. and Namangale, J. J. (2007). Analysis of the M/M/2 Queuing System with Restricted Service Duration. SAMSA Journal 2007, 33 – 43.
• Luwanda, A. G. and Mwambi, H. G. (2016). Estimation of Parameters of the HIV Disease Dynamic System using Routine Observational Data. African Journal of Science and Research, 5(2): 10-13.
• Luwanda, A. G. and Mwambi, H. G. (2016). A non-linear mixed-effects model for multivariate longitudinal data with drop-out with application to HIV disease dynamics. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, 21(2): 277-294.
• Luwanda, A. G. and Mwambi, H. G. (2016). A nonlinear mixed-effects model for multivariate longitudinal data with partially observed outcomes with application to HIV disease dynamics, Journal of Applied Statistics, 44(3): 441- 456.

Research Area

• Biostatistics, in particular statistical and mathematical modelling of disease processes with missing data

Department: Mathematics and Statistics

Rank: Associate Professor

Email: Kumwenda.k@mzuni.ac.mw

Research Interests

• Error Correcting Codes
• Algebraic Graph Theory
• Mathematics Education

Qualifications

• PhD (Mathematics), University of the Western Cape, 2011
• MSc (Information Theory, Coding and Cryptography), Mzuzu University, 2006
• PGD (Mathematical Sciences), University of Cape Town, 2007
• BSc (Education), Mzuzu University, 2004

Published Paper Reviews

• Guanghui Zhang, Constacyclic Codes over F_p+vF_p, Ars Combinatoria, 139 (2018), pp. 55-67.
• Yu. Mogilnykh, A note on regular subgroups of the automorphism group of the linear Hadamard code, Siberian Electronic Mathematical Reports, (2018), 1455-1462
• Ken Saito, Self-dual additive F₄-codes of lengths up to 40 represented by circulant graphs, Advances in Mathematics of Communications, 13 (2019), no. 2, 213-220.
• Jose Martinez-Bernal, Miguel A Valencia-Bucio and Rafael H. Villarreal, Linear codes over signed graphs, Designs, Codes and Cryptography, (2020), 88:273-296

Recent Publications

•  W. Fish, K. Kumwenda and E. Mwambene, Permutation decoding sets for codes from incidence matrices of triangular graphs, Afrika Matematika, 2018, 29(5), 753-759. Available from https://doi.org/10.1007/s13370-018-0576-2
• Peter Johnson, Edna Jones, Khumbo Kumwenda, Ryan Matzke, Sheng Bau, Rainbow connectivity in some Cayley graphs, Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, (Special issue in honour of Anne Penfold Street), 2018, 71 (part 3), 381-393.

Submitted paper

• Khumbo Kumwenda and Henry Mponela, Binary linear codes from embeddings of the strong product of triangular graphs and the complete graph
• Barnett, A. Blumenthal, M. DeVilbiss, B. Fain, K. Kumwenda, R. Matzke, WORM coloring complete $n$-partite graphs.

Recent Conference Presentations

•  P. Johnson, E. Jones, K. Kumwenda, R. Matzke and B. Sheng, Rainbow connectivity in Certain Cayley Graphs, 48th South-Eastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, Florida Atlantic University, March 6-10, 2017. 2.      Lughano Kayisi and Khumbo Kumwenda, Antiblocking Systems and Antiblocking Decoding of Triangular Graphs.
•  Khumbo Kumwenda, A generalisation of triangular graphs, Southern Africa Mathematical Sciences Conference, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia, 2015
• Khumbo Kumwenda and Caleb Namondwe, Weight Distribution of Hulls of Codes Related to Triangular Graphs, Southern Africa Mathematical Sciences Conference, Malawi Sun Hotel, Blantyre, Malawi, 2019  Supervision of MSc students
• Caleb Namondwe, Master of Science (Information Theory, Coding and Cryptography), Mzuzu University, 2019    Thesis title:  Permutation decoding and weight distribution of hulls of codes from incidence matrices of complete graphs
• Henry Mponela, Master of Science (Information Theory, Coding and Cryptography), Mzuzu University, 2019 Thesis title: Binary linear codes from embeddings of the strong product of triangular graphs and the complete graph K₂, 2017
• Lughano Kayisi, Master of Science (Infoormation Theory, Coding and Cryptography), Mzuzu University, 2016. Thesis title: Antiblocking Systems and Antiblocking Decoding of Triangular Graphs.
• Francisco Chamera, Master of Science (Information Theory, Coding and Cryptography), Mzuzu University, 2014. Thesis title: Message Passing Decoding of Codes from Complete Graphs.

Department: Mathematics and Statistics

Rank: Senior Lecturer and Head of Department

E-mails: nephtale@aims.ac.za, mumba.n@mzuni.ac.mw

Academic Qualifications

• 2018: PhD in Mathematics, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. (Thesis title:
  Codes, graphs and designs from maximal subgroups of alternating groups.)
• 2012–2013: MSc Mathematical Sciences, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS),
  South Africa. (Thesis title: Codes and graphs from alternating groups An for n odd.)
• 2007–2009: MSc Information Theory, Coding and Cryptography with Distinction, Mzuzu
  University, Malawi. (Thesis title: The weight distribution of inequivalent Goppa codes.)
• 2002–2006: BEd(Science) with strong credit, University of Malawi, Chancellor College.
  Academic short courses2018: Winter School: Axial Algebras, Modern Permutation Groups and Applications to Coding Theory, Durban , South Africa.
• 2015: Winter School: Algebraic Representation Theory and Applications, African Institute
  for Mathematical Sciences(AIMS), Cape Town, South Africa.
• 2009: Advanced School on Knot Theory and its applications to Physics and Biology, International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy.
•  Publications
• N. B. Mumba, W. Fish, E. Mwambene and B. G. Rodrigues, Binary codes and partial
  permutation decoding sets from biadjacency matrices of bipartite graphs Γ(2k, k, k+1, 1),
  Quest. Math., (2019), 1–16.
• N. B. Mumba and E. Mwambene, Automorphism groups of graph covers and uniform
  subset graphs, AKCE Int. J. Graphs Comb., 15, (2018), 27–33.
• N. B. Mumba, W. Fish, E. Mwambene and B. G. Rodrigues, Binary codes and partial
  permutation decoding sets from biadjacency matrices of bipartite graphs Γ(2k + 1, k, k +
  2, 1), Graphs Combin., 33, (2017), 357–368.
• N. B. Mumba, W. Fish and E. Mwambene, Equality of codes in the face of nonisomorphism in uniform subset graphs, revised.
• N. B. Mumba, Diameter and automorphism groups of bipartite graphs (n, k, l, 1),
  revised.

 International journal publications

•  N. B. Mumba, W. Fish and E. Mwambene, Codes from generalised uniform subset
  graphs Γ(2k, k, i) for i ∈ {1, k − 1} submitted.
• N. B. Mumba, Binary codes from biadjacency matrices of bipartite graphs Γ(2k +
  r, k, k + 1 + r, 1) submitted.
• Preprints, An efficient way for solving a special case of a non-homogeneous linear second order
  differential equation, preprint, 2013.
• Knots and graphs, preprint, 2013.
•  A formula for solving a special case of Cauchy-Euler Ordinary Differential Equations,
  preprint, 2019.

International conference presentations

• 2016: “Binary codes and partial permutation decoding sets from biadjacency matrices of bipartite graphs Γ(2k, k, k + 1, 1),” Proc. SAMS’16, Cape Town, South Africa.
• 2013: “ Codes, graphs and designs from Alternating groups An for n odd, ”Proc. SAMSA’13,
  Cape Town, South Africa.
• 2010: “An efficient way of finding a particular solution of a differential equation,”Proc. SAMSA’10,
  Gaborone, Botswana.
• 2009: “Another approach to Goppa codes,”Proc. IEEE AFRICON 2009.
• 2009: “The uniqueness of Hamming codes,”Proc. SAMSA’09, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
• 2008: “The weight distribution of inequivalent Goppa codes”Proc. SAMSA’08, Maputo,
  Mozambique.
  Theses and other publications
• 2017: PhD thesis, Mumba N.B, Mwambene E, Fish W, Rodrigues B, Codes, graphs and designs
  from maximal subgroups of alternating groups, http://etd.uwc.ac.za/handle/11394/6165.
• 2013: MSc. thesis, Mumba N.B, Mwambene E, Rodrigues B, Codes and graphs from Alternating groups An for n odd,
  http://archive.aims.ac.za/structured-masters-research-projects/2012-13.
• 2009: MSc. thesis, Mumba N.B, Ryan J.A, The weight distribution of inequivalent Goppa
  codes, Mzuzu university.

Research Interests

• Coding Theory,
• Graph Theory,
• Combinatorics,
• Group Theory.

Postgraduate research supervision

• Supervised three MSc. students in the areas of coding and graph theory in 2018–2019
  academic year.

Professional affiliations

• 2018–Present: Mhub Mathematics/Statistics Consultant.
• 2013–2017: South African Mathematics Society (SAMS)–Member
• 2010–Present: Institute of Chartered Accountants in Malawi (ICAM)–Examiner/marker in
  Business Mathematics and Statistics.
• 2008–Present: Southern Africa Mathematical Sciences Association(SAMSA)–Member.