Joyce Mwangama completed her BSc Eng. and MSc Eng. at the University of Cape Town in 2008 and 2011 respectively. She is currently working towards her PhD in Electrical Engineering in the Centre for Broadband Networks at the same institution. She is also currently a Lecturer within the electrical engineering department at UCT. Her research interests include Future Internet Technologies, 4G/5G Mobile Network Architectures and Services, Software Defined Networks and Network Virtualization, Smart Cities Applications, Internet of Things and Machine-to-Machine communications.