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Dr. Tendai Masunda Zengeni received her PhD in Fiber Optics and Nanophotonics from Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia. Her research focus is in Optical Fiber Communications, Mode Division Multiplexing, Few Mode Fiber, Multimode Fiber, Optical Switching and Photonic Crystal Fiber. She was a Senior Research Assistant at the Optical Technology Research Laboratory at Universiti Utara Malaysia, which is affiliated with the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA. She currently serves as a peer reviewer in 7 SCOPUS International Journals and is a member of the IEEE. As a researcher, she has 9 International Journal publications and has attended several academic conferences. She was a recipient of the Erasmus Scholarship from the European Union for her Post-Doctoral studies at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece. She is a recipient of the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Photonics (ICP) 2018. She was also awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Postgraduate Scholarship from Universiti Utara Malaysia. In 2023, she was appointed as the Vice Chairperson and sits on the Board of Directors for Netone Cellular, Zimbabwe.