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Dr.Onkabetse Daman is a former chairman of the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science in the University of Botswana. He has served in many administrative committees in the department and faculty. He was instrumental in reviewing and developing academic programmes throughout the faculty. In the department he taught undergraduate and graduate courses covering a wide range of fields of Mathematics. His research interests are in the areas of Stochastic Processes and Analysis. His professional career outside the University of Botswana includes serving as an external examiner/reviewer to different universities. He is currently serving as a member of Editorial board for Bulletin of Pure and Applied Mathematics. He is active in a variety of civic and cultural organisation including Adventist Men Organisation, Botswana Conservation Societies and Farming societies

Stochastic processes, Stochastic Culculus, Probability and Statistics

Queueing theory Markov Chains Fixed Ponits

Queueing theory Markov Chains

[1] Sani, S. and Daman, O.A. 2014. A queue discipline devoid of literature. International Journal of Applied Mathematics, 27, 461-472 [2] Sani, S. and Daman, O.A. 2014. Mathematical modeling in heavy traffic Queuing Systems. American Journal of Operations Research, 4, 340-350 [3] Ramasamy, S. Daman, O.A. and Sani, S. 2014, An M/G/2 queue where customers are served subject to a minimum violation of FCFS queue discipline. European Journal of Operational Research, 240, 140-146 [4] Daman, O.A. and Zegeye, H, 2014. Approximating a solution of a finite family of variation inequality problems for η-inverse strongly accretive mappings, Journal of Advance Mathematical Studies.7, 1-13. [5] Daman, O.A. and Stys T. 2013, Numerical Solution of the Diffusion Equation u_t = au_xx + bu_yy + cu_zz + f(t; x; y; z; u), Journal of Advanced Mathematics and Applications, 2, 1-9. [6] Daman, O.A. and Zegeye, H., 2012. Strong convergence theorems for a common fixed point of a family of pseudocontractive mappings. International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences. 17pp [7] Zegeye, H., Shahzad, N. and Daman, O.A., (2011). Strong convergence theorems for a semigroup of asymptotically nonexpansive mappings, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 54, 2077-2086. [8] Pathan, M.A. and Daman, O.A., (2010). On Weyl Fractional Integral Operators and Generalized Voigt Functions. Ganita Sandesh, 24,1-10.

LLB (University of Botswana) 

LL.M (University of Edinburgh)

Criminal Law

Clinical Legal Education 

International Commercial Arbitration

International Law

Criminal Law

Criminal Procedure

Human Rights

Labour Law

"Legislative Erosion of Judicial Discretion in Relation to Murder with Extenuating Circumstances in Botswana: A Critique of the Amendment of Section 203 (2) of the Penal Code" Criminal Law Forum (2021), Vol 32, Issue 2, 285

"Enhancing the Protection of Minors from Defilement in Botswana: Merits and Flaws of the Law and the Process" University of Botswana Law Journal, (2020) Vol 28, 176. Co-authored with G. R Lekgowe

“The Stock Theft and Customary Courts in Botswana: Justice Sacrificed on the Altar of Expediency?” Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law (2020) Vol 52: 3, 65. Co-authored with Professor C.M Fombad

“The Right of Access to State-held information in Botswana: Lessons from Emerging International Human Rights Jurisprudence” Commonwealth Law Bulletin (2018) 44:3, 429. Co-authored with Professor T.B. Balule

"The Doctrine of Competence-Competence and the Botswana Arbitration Act of 1959: The Need for Reform" University of Botswana Law Journal, (2014) Vol 18, 

Master in Archives and Records Management (MARM)

Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) 

5) Higher Diploma, Addis Ababa University (2020)

4) PhD, Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland (2009-2013)

3) Advanced Diploma, Jimma University (2005-2007)

2) MSc, Physical Chemistry, Addis Ababa University (2005-2007)

1) BEd, Chemistry, Bahir Dar University (1996-2000)

Prof. Demissie is an Associate Professor of Physical and Computational Chemistry, with a teaching history at Dilla University, Hawassa University, Medco Biomedical College, Addis Ababa University, and Adama Science and Technology University, all in Ethiopia, before joining the University of Botswana. He has also trained university lecturers in the use of computational chemistry tools for problem-solving.

His academic journey includes a PhD funded by the European Union, followed by over five years as a postdoctoral researcher at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway (funded by the Research Council of Norway) and one year at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague (funded by the European Union). Prof. Demissie has authored and co-authored over 75 research papers in prestigious journals. His expertise spans various areas, including relativistic NMR, EPR, and pNMR calculations; computational studies of reaction mechanisms; supramolecular chemistry; computational analyses of absorption, emission, Raman, Raman optical activity, vibrational circular dichroism, and magnetic circular dichroism; computational electrochemistry; CO2 activation and reduction to valuable organic compounds; and drug-protein molecular docking studies.

Beyond his scholarly pursuits, Prof. Demissie is deeply committed to fostering STEM awareness among high school students and promoting public awareness and understanding of scientific endeavors.

Quantum Chemistry (Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses)

Computational Chemistry (Postgraduate course)

Physical Chemistry (Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses)

Statistical Mechanics/Statistical Thermodynamics (Postgraduate course)

Molecular Spectroscopy (Postgraduate course)

Computational Supramolecular Chemistry (Postgraduate course)

General Chemistry (Undergraduate courses)

Research Methods (Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses)

Relativistic NMR, EPR, and pNMR calculations

Computational studies of organic and inorganic reaction mechanisms

Supramolecular chemistry

Computational studies of absorption, emission, Raman, Raman optical activity, vibrational circular dichroism, and magnetic circular dichroism

Computational electrochemistry

Computational organic chemistry 

CO2 activation and reduction to valuable organic compounds

Molecular docking studies of drug-protein interactions 

Molecular property calculations

Computational studies of organic and inorganic reaction mechanisms

Computational studies of supermolecules

Computational spectroscopy

Computational organic chemistry 

CO2 activation and reduction to valuable organic compounds

Mechanistic Studies of the Catalytic Reduction of CO2 to CO: Efficient CO-Releasing Si- and Ge-Based Catalysts

TB Demissie, JM Kessete, ACS Omega (2022)

Novel Vanadium(IV) and Cobalt(II) Complexes

T Damena, D Zeleke, T Desalegn, TB Demissie et al. ACS Omega (2022)

Origins of Optical Activity in an Oxo-Helicene: Experimental and Computational Studies

TB Demissie, MS Sundar, K Thangavel, et al., ACS Omega 6, 3, 2420–2428 (2021)

Computational mechanistic insights into hafnium catalyzed CO2 activation and reduction

JM Kessete, TB Demissie, AM Mohammed, Molecular Physics, e2003456, 1-10 (2021)

Pharmacokinetics and drug-likeness of antidiabetic flavonoids: Molecular docking and DFT study

M Bitew, T Desalegn, TB Demissie, A Belayneh, et al. PLoS ONE 16(12): e0260853 (2021)

Synthesis, antibacterial and antioxidant activities of Thiazole-based Schiff base derivatives

F Lemilemu, M Bitew, TB Demissie, et al, BMC Chemistry 15 (1), 1-18 (2021)

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PhD in Computer Science at Southwest Jiaotong University in China

CCNA, CCNP

Reviewer in International Journal:

• Knowledge-Based System
• Neurocomputing
• Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics
• Advances in Computational Intelligence
• Journal of Big Data
• Artificial Intelligence Review

Bassoma Diallo graduated from the University of Bamako's college of science and technology with a B.Sc. in applied physics. He continued his education, earning his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in computer science from Wuhan University of Science and Technology in China in 2017,and Southwest Jiaotong University in China in 2023 respectively. He started a research adventure after earning his Ph.D. and gave his knowledge to the robotics and artificial intelligence center in Mali. Currently, he is a lecturer at University of Botswana. Furthermore, Dr. Bassoma is a renowned researcher who actively takes part in a number of international conferences and journals in the field of computer science.

Advanced programming

Cryptography

Network Security

• Artificial Intelligence,
• Deep Learning,
• Machine Learning,
• Data Mining,
• Document Clustering 

• Artificial Intelligence,
• Deep Learning,
• Machine Learning,
• Data Mining

1. Deep embedding clustering based on contractive autoencoder B Diallo, J Hu, T Li, GA Khan, X Liang, Y Zhao, Neurocomputing 433, 96-107.
2. Auto-attention mechanism for multi-view deep embedding clustering B Diallo, J Hu, T Li, GA Khan, X Liang, H Wang, Pattern Recognition 143, 109764.
3. Multi-view document clustering based on geometrical similarity measurement B Diallo, J Hu, T Li, GA Khan, AS Hussein, International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 1-13.
4. Concept-enhanced multi-view clustering of document data B Diallo, J Hu, T Li, G Khan, C Ji, 2019 IEEE 14th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge, 1258-1264.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8WdVbSYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao 
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bassoma-Diallo 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4343-5165 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bassomadiallo/
Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57219164927
DBLP: https://dblp.org/pid/273/1916