Name: Professor Fungai Bhunu Shava

Department: Faculty of Computing and Informatics

Biography:

Professor Fungai Bhunu Shava’s fields of specialisation are Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Network Security, and Information Security in under-serviced communities.  Her work focuses on the secure use of ICTs as enabling tools for socio-economic development in developing economies and societies including Child Online Protection. Professor Fungai Bhunu Shava has a PhD: Information Technology (NMMU), M.Sc.: Computer Science (UZ), B.Sc.: Comp. Sci. & Maths. (UZ), Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (NUST). She is involved in curriculum development in Communication Networks, Computer Science and Cybersecurity. I have Graduated 17 Master’s and 1 PhD so far, I am currently supervising 6 active PhD students and 12 active Master’s students.  Out of these, several frameworks for secure integration of technology were developed, including the multimodal biometrics solution, which is the basis for the Verifi solution implemented at MTC

She is currently the Acting Executive Dean, a Professor in Cybersecurity within the Faculty of Computing and Informatics, and the leader of the Digital Forensics and Information Security Research Cluster at Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST). She is the founding chairperson and current head of the administrative team of the Namibia National Cyber Security Competition since 2015. She is also an International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP) alumni and an Application Security Specialist with IBM Security AppScan v8.7. She serves on the national cybersecurity stakeholder committees including the SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Technical Experts meetings, and regional coordinator of the Africa to International Cybersecurity Competition and the International Cybersecurity Challenge (AFRICC). She has co-organised and spearheaded: Child Online Protection hackathons; WiSci STEAM Camp 2019 in collaboration with US Embassy and GirlUp; TechCamp Namibia: Cybersecurity for Everyone in collaboration with the USA government and Tech and Innovation Bazaars in collaboration with MTC. She participated in the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland (Geneva Dialogue on Responsible Behaviour in Cyberspace) as well as United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDR) Cyber Stability Conferences. Prof Shava actively contributes to Water security through her research work on designing Integrated Water Resource Management technologies. Furthermore, she contributed to Safety and Security Expo; Women in Computing Conferences, Google Developer’s Circle, Namibia Internet Governance Forum (NamIGF), Child online Protection Taskforce, Namibia; IEEE and ACM chapters in Namibia among others.