Tshilidzi Marwala (OMB) born 28 July 1971 in Venda, Limpopo South Africa is a Dean of Engineering at the University of Johannesburg.
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He was previously an Adhominem Professor of Electrical Engineering as well as the Carl and Emily Fuchs Chair of Systems and Control Engineering as well as the DST/NRF South Africa Research Chair of Systems Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is a professor extraordinaire at the University of Pretoria, was the Chair of the Local Loop Unbundling Committee as well as the non-executive director of the State Information Technology Agency (Pty) Ltd. He is a Deputy Chair of Limpopo Business Support Agency and is on boards of EOH (Pty) Ltd and City Power Johannesburg. He was a councillor of Statistics South Africa as well as the National Advisory Council on Innovation. He is a trustee of the Bradlow Foundation as well as the Carl and Emily Fuchs Foundation. He is the youngest recipient of the Order of Mapungubwe and was the first African Engineer to be awarded the President Award by the National Research Foundation of South Africa.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (Magna Cum Laude) from Case Western Reserve University, a Master of Engineering from the University of Pretoria, a PhD in Engineering from St John's College, Cambridge and successfully completed a Program for Leadership Development at Harvard Business School. He was a post-doctoral research associate at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine and in year 2006 to 2007 was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. In the year 2007 to 2008, he has been appointed a visiting fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He matriculated at Mbilwi Secondary School and completed Sixth Form at St John's College [1] in Johannesburg.
His research interests include the application of computational intelligence to engineering, computer science, finance, social science and medicine. Marwala has made fundamental contributions to engineering including the development of the concept of pseudo-modal energies and the development of Bayesian framework for solving engineering problems. Marwala is a theoretician who has contributed to concepts such as the National Democratic Revolution [1] and developmental state.[2] He has supervised 30 masters and PhD students and has published over 170 papers in journals such as the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal, proceedings and book chapters. His book Computational Intelligence for Modelling Complex Systems is published by Research India Publications. He was part of a team that has succeeded in bringing the 2014 World Congress of Automatic Control to Africa for the first time. He is a fellow of TWAS, The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, a senior member of the IEEE and a distinguished member of the Association for Computing Machinery. His work has appeared in publications such as New Scientist, Time Magazine and The Economist.
Editor: Journal of Computers [2]
Associate Editor: International Journal of Systems Science [3]
Associate Editor: ICIC Express Letters [4]
Associate Editor: South African Journal of Science [5]
1. Academy of Science of South Africa (2007) [6]
2. South African Academy of Engineering (2007) [7]
3. African Scientific Institute (2009)[8]
2. National Research Foundation President’s Award (P-Rating) (2003) [10]
3. TWAS-AAS-Microsoft 2009 Award [11]
1. David Mark Starfield David Milton Rubin. Tshilidzi Marwala Method and Apparatus for Radiation Imaging. IPC8 Class: AG01T100FI USPC Class: 25036302 [12]
2. David Mark Starfield David Milton Rubin. Tshilidzi Marwala Coded Appertures Masks for Ration-Based Medical Imaging. WO 2008/14254 [13]
3. Megan J. Russell, David M. Rubin, B. Wigdorowitz and Tshilidzi Marwala. (SA Provisional Patent: 2008/05078) An artificial larynx. [14]
1. T. Marwala. Computational Intelligence for Missing Data Imputation, Estimation, and Management: Knowledge Optimization Techniques. Information Science Reference, 2009, ISBN 978-1-60566-336-4.
2. T. Marwala. Computational Intelligence for Modelling Complex Systems. Research India Publications, 2007, ISBN 978-81-904362-1-2
3. Marwala, Tshilidzi (2010). Finite Element Model Updating Using Computational Intelligence Techniques: Applications to Structural Dynamics. Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 1–247. ISBN 978-1-84996-322-0.
4. Marwala, Tshilidzi; Lagazio, Monica (2011). Militarized Conflict Modeling Using Computational Intelligence. Heidelberg: Springer. ISBN 978-0-85729-789-1.