Dr Tawachi Nyasulu
Research Associate
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Personal statement
I am a Research Associate in the Strathclyde Software Defined Radio (StrathSDR) laboratory at the University of Strathclyde. My research is focused on efficient utilisation of the radio spectrum - the radio waves that make wireless communication possible.
I have recently successfully completed the task of leading research in the spectrum sensing workstream of the £12m Future Open and Resilient Networks research project called Towards Ubiquitous 3-Dimensional Open Resilient Network (TUDOR), led by the University of Surrey's 5G/6G Innovation Centre.
I was awarded a postgraduate certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in September 2024. I have been a Teaching Assistant since 2016 on an undergraduate course, Digital Electronics, where I am involved in tutoring, lab demonstrations, and student assessment.
I also have international teaching experience at Shanghai University of Electric Power, where I deliver lectures, tutorials, and exam setting and marking for the Computer Architecture module.
In my previous life, I worked as a telecommunications officer with the United Nations in Malawi, where I managed telecommunications and IT infrastructure and technology-for-development projects. It was through this work experience that my interest in research on technologies for affordable wireless connectivity was ignited.
Prize And Awards
- IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge 2024
- Recipient
- 12/11/2024
Qualifications
I received my PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University of Strathclyde in 2022. My PhD thesis was on modelling of heterogeneous wireless coexistence in shared spectrum using hypergraph theory. I also received my MSc (Eng) in Digital Communications Networks from University of Leeds BSc in 2015.
Publications
- An AI-driven resource management model for shared spectrum networks
- Atimati Ehinomen, Nyasulu Tawachi, Crawford David, Stewart Robert
- Ad Hoc Networks Vol 192 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2026.104337
- A reconfigurable RFSoC-based spectrum sensing platform using a polyphase channeliser and distributed publisher-subscriber framework
- McTaggart Blair, MacLellan Andrew, Atimati Ehinomen Elizabeth, Brown Lewis, Nyasulu Tawachi, Crockett Louise, Crawford David H, Stewart Robert
- ICC 2026 - IEEE International Conference on Communications IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2026 ICC 2026 - IEEE International Conference on Communications (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC59461.2026.11586939
- Resource management in dynamic shared spectrum networks
- Atimati Ehinomen, Nyasulu Tawachi, Crawford David, Stewart Robert
- 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN) 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN), pp. 13-19 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/DySPAN64764.2025.11115965
- Software Defined Radio with Zynq Ultrascale+ RFSoC
- Crockett Louise H, Northcote David, Stewart Robert, Allan Douglas, Atimati Ehinomen, Barlee Kenny W, Brown Lewis J, Craig James, Fitzpatrick Graeme, Goldsmith Joshua, Maclellan Andrew, McLaughlin Lewis D, McTaggart Blair, Nyasulu Tawachi, Šiaučiulis Marius, Crawford David
- (2023)
- Comparison of graph-based and hypergraph-based models for wireless network coexistence
- Nyasulu Tawachi, Crawford David H
- IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/MeditCom49071.2021.9647587
- Hypergaph-based model for coexistence management of heterogeneous wireless networks
- Nyasulu Tawachi, Crawford David H
- 2021 Wireless Days (WD) DNAC Wireless Days Conference (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/WD52248.2021.9508293
Teaching
I am interested in teaching a range of subjects in digital electronics, communications engineering, and computer architecture at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I am willing to accept international teaching assignments. I am also open to student supervision assignments, having completed the Strathclyde Supervisor Development Programme in 2025, which equipped me to co-supervise PhD students.
Research Interests
Efficient Radio Spectrum Management
- Dynamic Spectrum Access
- Spectrum sharing
- Heterogeneous wireless coexistence management
- Spectrum sensing
- Modeling techniques - Hypergraph theory
Professional Activities
- UKESF Girls into Electronics 2026
- Contributor
- 11/6/2026
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2026
- Participant
- 24/5/2026
- Inter-Academy Internatonal Workshop at IEEE International Conference on Communications (2026)
- Organiser
- 1/3/2026
- Community Engagement & Interdisciplinary Environmental Research Showcase Event with Mzuzu University, Malawi
- Participant
- 13/8/2025
- Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2026
- Participant
- 3/3/2025
Projects
- Towards Ubiquitous 3D Open Resilient Network
- Nyasulu, Tawachi (Researcher)
- The TUDOR architecture is aimed achieving full geographic mobile coverage through an efficient open radio communication system and an open spectrum management architecture.
- 14-Jan-2023 - 14-Jan-2025
- Wave 1 Rural Extension Project
- Nyasulu, Tawachi (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
- 5G New Thinking
- Nyasulu, Tawachi (Researcher)
- Development of a rural connectivity toolkit.
- 10-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2022
- Using Hypergraph Theory to Model Coexistence Management and Coordinated Spectrum Allocation for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks Operating in Shared Spectrum
- Nyasulu, Tawachi (Principal Investigator)
- This thesis explores the objective of enhanced spectrum utilisation among cognitive radios within a dynamic spectrum access (DSA) policy, and managing the coexistence of heterogeneous wireless networks within the same spatio-spectral region.
- 01-Jan-2016 - 16-Jan-2022
Contact
Dr
Tawachi
Nyasulu
Research Associate
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Email: tawachi.nyasulu@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted