1. Ameen Chilwan Ph.D. Candidate Supervisor: Leif Arne Rønningen
Co-Supervisor: Yuming Jiang

2. Outline Who/What am I? What cool stuff have I done so far?
Studies
Work
What’s so great about Tanzania?
Country
Places
My Home Town
People
Life Style
Food
Music
Sports

3. WHO/WHAT AM I?

4. My Ethnicity
AFRO – INDO – ARABIAN

5. WHAT COOL STUFF HAVE I DONE SO FAR?

6. High School – 2002

7. B.Sc. In Telecommunications Engineering University of Dar es Salaam (2007)
Analysis of Co-existance of GSM900 and CDMA2000 on 900 MHz Cellular Band in Tanzania
GSM900 Transmitter
CDMA2000 Receiver
GSM900 Receiver
CDMA2000 Transmitter
900 MHz Cellular Band
(Channel) f
PSD f0
CDMA2000 Signal
GSM900 Signal

8. M.Sc. In Telematics – NTNU (2011)
Specialized in Networks & QoS
Dependability Differentiation in Cloud Services
Both analytical and simulation approach
Supervised By:
Poul Heegaard
Astrid Undheim
Conference Paper:
Differentiated Availability in Cloud Computing SLAs
Presented in GRID 2011

9. M.Sc. In Telematics – 2
Before
After

10. PhD Area of Research Collaboration Spaces Network study for DMP
Simulation
Hardware Implementation
Network
CODEC
Trans-mitter
Receiver
Some processing
Source
Node
Interim
Target
Some more processing

11. Work Experience Network Quality Administrator (2007-09)
At ZANTEL (part of etisalat group)
Traffic analysis and engineering
Summer Internships
TTCL (2004)
Auvionics (2004)
TCAA (2005)
ZANTEL (2006)
NTNU (2011)

12. WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT TANZANIA?

13. Neighbours: Kenya Uganda Rwanda Burundi DR Congo Zambia Malawi
Mozambique

14. My Country The United Republic of Tanzania
Tanganyika (Independance 1961)
Zanzibar (Independance 1963)
Merger to form Tanzania in 1964
Capital: Dodoma (since 1996)
Largest City: Dar es Salaam (around 4m people)
Population:
Around 44m people (last census 2002)
Around 800k wild animals (last census Serengeti)
Area:
886,600 sq.km. Land area
A bit more than 25% is wild life (national parks, reserves etc.)

15. The Lion King MCMXXXVIII (1938th)

16. Li’l bit of History Arabs, kizimkazi mosque Persians, kaole ruins
Portugese, fort jesus
Arabs, znz
Germans
british

17. Tribes distribution map

18. Places Kilimanjaro White sand beach Znz Serengeti Ngorongoro crater
Lake tanganyika

19. mwanza Darwin’s nightmare Bismarck rock
2nd largest (around 1.2m – 2011 estimate)

20. Sukuma people
Cow herd
Anaeshangaa mataa

21. Famous Tanzanians – 1
Julius Nyerere
First President
Father of Nation

22. Famous Tanzanians – 2 Asha Rose Migiro Deputy Secretary General of UNO
EX-Foreign Minister

23. Famous Tanzanians – 3
Hasheem Thabeet
NBA Professional
Houston Rockets

24. Famous Tanzanians – 4