Staff Profiles

Ph.D. @ Sabanci University, Turkey, 2017

M.Sc. @ Dalarna University, Sweden, 2009

B.Sc. @ University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan, 2007

He completed PhD in Mechatronics with thesis, ‘‘Control of Converters as Source for Microgrid’’ in 2017, MSc, BSc in EE in the years 2009, 2007 respectively. 
He has been serving University of Botswana, as a Senior Lecturer since May, 2022. Earlier he served Sharif College of Engineering & Technology, Lahore as an AP, as a head of QEC and as a Head of Electrical Engineering Department till April 2022, UET-Taxila as an AP till April 2018, Sabanci Uni. as TA till July 2017, Hajvery Uni. as a Lecturer till 2012 and GC University Faisalabad as a Lab Engr till January 2008. 
Beside academic roles, he has served a vast range of industries through famous consultancy firms. His interests include control of converters with applications ranging integration of RESs, MGs, Smartgrid, electrical machines, EVs, electric steering/braking, robotic actuators, energy management, process control, cascade control applications etc.

Electrical Machines, Control of Converters, Power Electronics, MicroGrid, Smart Grid, High Voltage Engineering, Circuit Analysis & Design, Power System Analysis, Power Distribution & Transmission, Control System Design, Model Based Control, Modelling & Identification, Process Control, Motion Control Systems

Electrical Machines, Control of Converters, Power Electronics, MicroGrid, Smart Grid, High Voltage Engineering, Model Based Control

Electrical Machines, Control of Converters, Power Electronics, MicroGrid, Smart Grid, High Voltage Engineering, Model Based Control, Modelling & Identification, Process Control

MSc ENERGY ECONOMICS University of Surrey 1993

MSc Economic University of Glasgow  1996

Microeconomics

Macroeconomics

Environmental Economics

Natural Resource Economics

Sustainable Development.

Environment and Growth.

Financial Development and Economic Growth

M, Rathedi M, NARAYANA ( 2019) ‘The Determinants of Financial Development: The Case of Botswana’

Asian-African Journal of Economics and Econometrics Vol 19,No 2, December 2019 p241-254

Narayana N, Nair.M.K.S& Rathedi M. (2016), Macroeconomic Determinants of Economic DIVERSIFICATION In Botswana . Asia-Africa Journal of Economics and Econometrics,Vol 16 No 1, 2016: p 79-89

 Narayana N, Nair.M.K.S& RathediM(2016), Economic and Social Networks: A Conceptual Analysis

Journal of Social and Economic Policy, Vol13  No 1 2016

Rathedi M. and Narayana.N. (2009) “Economic Growth and Enviromental Quality: A case study of Botswana”  Journal of Social and Economic Policy  Vol. 6 No 21-31

Rathedi M. (2007) “Botswana”s Energy Sector: Seeking Alternative Sources of Energy” International Journal of Environment and Development  Vol. 4 No 1, 73-82

Narayana N. and Rathedi M (2007)  “Energy  and Sustainable Economic

• Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Botswana, 2019
• MSc. Mathematics
• Post Graduate Diploma in Education, University of Botswana, 2001
• BSc, Mathematics, University of Botswana, 2000

• Lecturer, University of Botswana, 2005-2019
• Risk and Compliance manager, Botswana Life Insurance, 2004-2005
• Lecturer, University of Botswana, 2002-2004
• Staff Development Fellow, University of Botswana, 2000-2001

Mathematical Statistics

Stochastic Processes

Relative Increments of Distributions

PUBLICATIONS

• Kooepile-Reikeletseng, S.N. : Monotonic Behavior of Relative Increments of Pearson Distributions. Global Journal of Science Frontier Research: Mathematics and Decision Sciences. 18. Issue 5. Version 1.0(2018).  Online ISSN: 2249-4626, pp.1-6.

 PRESENTATIONS

• Kooepile-Reikeletseng, S. – Szabo, Z. I.: Monotonic Properties of Relative Increments of Cumulative Distribution Functions with some Applications in Modelling Growth Processes. Presented at IASTED 2016 African Conferences Modelling and Simulation (Africa MS 2016) in September 5-6, 2016 in Gaborone, Botswana.  
• Kooepile-Reikeletseng, S. N. – Szabo, Z. I.: Applications of Relative Increments of Cumulative Distribution Functions. Presented at TAAG 2017 Conference held at University of Botswana, Sep 18-20, 2017 in Gaborone, Botswana.

Bachelor of Biomedical Science (BiomedSc); Master of Science (MSc); Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).

Gaone Retshabile is a graduate of Monash Universty, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, and the University of Botswana. In previous employment he has worked as a clinical laboratory scientist involved in clinical laboratory monitoring of HIV clinical trial subjects. He currently teaches in the molecular biology cognate area of the Biological Sciences department. His research interests are in genomics, the ethical conduct of genomics research and capacity building.

Biology

HIV immunology, HIV comorbidities, HIV genetics

Genomics

Molecular Biology

Genetics

Immunology

Virology

1. Retshabile G, Mlotshwa BC, Williams L [...] Hanchard NA; Collaborative African Genomics Network (CAfGEN) of the H3Africa Consortium. Whole-Exome Sequencing Reveals Uncaptured Variation and Distinct Ancestry in the Southern African Population of Botswana. Am J Hum Genet. 2018 May 3;102(5):731-743.

2. Mboowa G, Mwesigwa S, Katagirya E, Retshabile G., [...] Matshaba M. The Collaborative African Genomics Network (CAfGEN): Applying Genomic technologies to probe host factors important to the progression of HIV and HIV-tuberculosis infection in sub-Saharan Africa. AAS Open Res. 2018 Apr 18; 1:3.

3. Mlotshwa BC, Mwesigwa S, Mboowa G, Williams L, Retshabile G., [...] Mpoloka S.W for. The Collaborative African Genomics Network Training Program: A Trainee Perspective on Training the Next Generation of African Scientists. Genet Med. 06 April 2017.

1996 University of Missouri, Columbia, USA Ph.D. in Pure Mathematics

1988 Université de Madagascar Diplome d’Etudes Approfondies, Pure Mathëmatique

1986 Université de Madagascar Maitrise-es-Science, Pure Mathematique

1985 Université de Madagascar Licence d’Enseignement Mathématique

Mangatiana A. Robdera received his Ph.D degree in pure mathematics at the University of Missouri (USA) in 1996 entitled On the Analytic Complete Continuity Prpoperty of Banach  spaces  and Convolution Operators.

He specializes in functional analysis. His research interests are in the areas of Geometry of Banach spaces, Vector Measures and Integration.

Mangatiana has over twenty years of teaching experience at the tertiary education level: University of Madagascar-Antananarivo, University of Missouri-Columbia (USA), William Paterson Univesrsity, NJ (USA), Eastern Mediterranean University, Northern Cyprus, Al-Akhawayn Univesity, Morocco. He currently holds an associate professor position at the University of Botswana in Gaborone.

He has published several research papers at various renowned international peer reviewed journals such as Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Glasgow Journal of Mathematics, Quaestiones Mathematicae, Advanced in Pure Mathematics, International Journal of Modeling and Optimization. He also published two textbooks.

Prof. Robdera is a member of the American Mathematical Society, the Southern African Mathematical Science Association, la Société de Mathématiques de Madagascar. In addition, Prof. Robdera is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Advances in Mathematics and Computer Science, the editorial board of Pure and Applied Mathematics Journal, and avail himself as a reviewer for the American Mathematical Society.

Mangatiana A. Robdera has taught: Mathematical Analysis, Functional Analysis, Topology, Real Analysis, Complex Analysis, Integration and probability, Fourier Analysis, Measure Theory, Fixed Point Theory, Calculus, Function Spaces, Banach Space theory.

Mangatiana A. Robdera's research interests include: Mathematical Analysis, Functional Analysis, Integration, Real Analysis, Measure Theory, Harmonic Analysis, Fourier Analysis, Fixed Point Theory, Function Spaces, Banach Space theory, Real and Complex Analysis, Stochastic, Topology, Number Theory.

Mangatiana A. Robdera has supervised undergraduate project students as well as Masters degree students. He is currently supervising a Ph.D. Student.

M.A. Robdera: Strong Transcendental Numbers and Linear Independence. Inter. J. of Applied Physics and Mathematics, 10(1), 2020:49-56
M.A. Robdera: A Unified Approach to Integration Theory. Inter. J. of Applied Physics and Mathematics, 9(1), 2019:21-28
M.A. Robdera: Extensions of the Lusin's Theorem, the Severini-Egorov's Theorem and the Riesz Subsequence Theorems. Asian Research Journal of Mathematics, 1(4), 1-9, 2016.
M.A. Robdera: On the Subspace Problem for Quasi-normed Spaces. Asian Research Journal of Mathematics, 1(1), 1-9, 2016.

M.A. Robdera, Paulette Saab: The Analytic Complete Continuity Property. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 12/2000; 252(2):967-979

M.A. Robdera, Paulette Saab: Convolution operators associated with vector measures. Glasgow Mathematical Journal 09/1998; 40(03):367 - 384

Further publications can be viewed at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mangatiana_Robdera

MD, MPH, FACEP

Residency in Emergency Medicine, Brown University

Fellowship in Bioethics, Harvard Medical School
NIH T32 Research Fellowship

Noah K. Rosenberg, MD, MPH is Head of Department for Emergency Medicine at the University of Botswana where he oversees medical education and research in emergency medicine. He works clinically at Princess Marina Hospital, Botswana's largest teaching hospital. Dr. Rosenberg previously responded to the 2014 Ebola crisis in West Africa and served for two years as faculty for the University of Rwanda’s first training program in emergency medicine, where he was program director oversaw the first graduating class in 2018. Dr. Rosenberg's academic interests include Global Health Bioethics and Alcohol Use Disorder in sub-Saharan Africa. He has completed fellowships in in Bioethics at Harvard Medical School, and research as a National Institutes of Health T32 fellow. He was the Andrew Markus Visiting Scholar for bioethics at the University of Oxford, Ethox Centre in 2019 and his work has been published and presented internationally.

Bioethics

Alcohol Use Disorder

Emergency medicine capacity development

Rosenberg N, Mateyo K, Mokute K, Otieno G, Riviello E, Umuhire O. Attitudes, Beliefs and Practices Toward End-of-Life Care of Physicians in Sub-Saharan Africa. PAMJ. 2023 2023-08-18;45(167).

Rosenberg NK, Hill AB, Johnsky L, Wiegn D, Merchant RC. Barriers and Facilitators Associated with Establishment of Emergency Department-Initiated Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder in Rural Maine. Journal of Rural Health. September 2021

Rosenberg N. A cognitive science approach to bioethics. Eur J Emerg Med. 2021 Apr 1;28(2):90-91.

Rosenberg N. Minter and Doctor: A Topography of Injustice. Perspect in Biol Med. 2021;64(3):189-199