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Gabriel Kabanda
Gabriel Kabanda
is an exceptional strategist, seasoned academician, data scientist, expert evaluator, shrewd business consultant and leader talented with competences for dealing with business and with people. He is a Distinguished Full Professor of Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity and Big Data Science; a Professor of Applied Business Informatics at the University of Zimbabwe Business School since January, 2000; a Professor of Big Data Science at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST); an Adjunct Professor of Machine Learning at Woxsen University, Hyderabad, India; Adjunct Professor of Cybersecurity in USA at both California State University - Chico (Cybersecurity for Executives Program Faculty, Regional and Continuing Education) and Ithaca College (New York); and the former Pro Vice Chancellor (Research, Innovation and Enterprise Development) of Zimbabwe Open University. Gabriel is the Vice President of the Zimbabwe Academy of Sciences; Secretary General of the Africa-Asia-Dialogue Network; a Fellow of the African Scientific Institute (USA); a member of the African Science, Research and Innovation Council (ASRIC) of the African Union; an Executive Committee member of Managing African Research Network (mRAN); and Vice Chairman of the Leadership Advisory Board of the IT Governance & Cybersecurity Institute (New York). He holds a Post-Doctorate of Science - D.Sc. (Atlantic International University, USA), Ph.D.(California, PWU), M.Sc. (Swansea University, UK) degrees in Computer Science, and a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics (University of Zimbabwe). His international awards include Who's Who of Professionals (1997), the Golden Academic Excellence and Professional Achievement award (2013), the South African Department of Science and Technology’s most accomplished African scientist and outstanding researcher (2017), and UNESCO’s “Most Notable and Top Distinguished Professor of the 21st Century” (May, 2021). He is currently the Qualified Country Co-Investigator (CCI) for Zambia and Zimbabwe of the international Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) 2020 Project, which is a unique large-scale study of cultural practices, leadership ideals, and generalized and interpersonal trust in more than 160 countries in collaboration with more than 500 researchers [
]. Gabriel has published 1253 research publications and has supervised 15 Ph.D theses and 100 Masters Dissertations. Professor Kabanda is the Founding Editor of the African Journal of Information Systems and Library Science (Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd, United Kingdom), Editor of the Journal of Signal and Information Processing, Scientific Research Publishing Inc. (USA); an Editorial Board member of the LC International Journal on STEM (ISSN: 2708-7123) ; Editor of the West African Journal of Open and Flexible Learning; and an Editorial Board Member of the Africa Journal of Leadership & Governance.
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