Tshilidzi Marwala
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Tshilidzi Marwala born 28 July 1971 in Venda
, Limpopo
South Africa
is a Dean of Engineering at the University of Johannesburg.
. 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
http://www.info.gov.za/aboutgovt/orders/2004/marwala.htm 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 and developmental state
. 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
.
Associate Editor: International Journal of Systems Science http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00207721.asp
Associate Editor: ICIC Express Letters http://www.ijicic.org/icicel.htm
Associate Editor: South African Journal of Science
http://www.sajs.co.za/
(2007) http://www.assaf.co.za
2. South African Academy of Engineering
(2007) http://www.saae.co.za
3. African Scientific Institute (2009)http://www.asi-org.net
http://www.thepresidency.gov.za/orders_list.asp?show=301
2. National Research Foundation
President’s Award (P-Rating) (2003) http://www.thepresidency.gov.za/orders_list.asp?show=301
3. TWAS-AAS-Microsoft 2009 Award http://twas.ictp.it/news-in-home-page/news/african-computer-scientists-recognized
2. David Mark Starfield David Milton Rubin. Tshilidzi Marwala Coded Appertures Masks for Ration-Based Medical Imaging. WO 2008/14254 http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/fetch.jsp?LANG=ENG&DBSELECT=PCT&SERVER_TYPE=19-10&SORT=41259450-KEY&TYPE_FIELD=256&IDB=0&IDOC=601271&C=10&ELEMENT_SET=B&RESULT=1&TOTAL=2&START=1&DISP=25&FORM=SEP-0/HITNUM,B-ENG,DP,MC,AN,PA,ABSUM-ENG&SEARCH_IA=IB2008001278&QUERY=%28FP%2fmarwala%29+
3. Megan J. Russell, David M. Rubin, B. Wigdorowitz and Tshilidzi Marwala. (SA Provisional Patent: 2008/05078) An artificial larynx. http://www.greengazette.co.za/pages/2008/07/Patent%20Journals/20080701%20-%20Patent%20Journal%20No%2012%20of%2001-Jul-2008,%20Volume%2041%20(Part%202%20of%202),%20150.pdf
2. T. Marwala. Computational Intelligence for Modelling Complex Systems. Research India Publications, 2007, ISBN 978-81-904362-1-2
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Venda
Venda was a bantustan in northern South Africa, now part of Limpopo province. It was founded as a homeland for the Venda people, speakers of the Venda language. It bordered modern Zimbabwe and South Africa, and is now part of Limpopo in South Africa....
, Limpopo
Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. The capital is Polokwane, formerly named Pietersburg. The province was formed from the northern region of Transvaal Province in 1994, and initially named Northern Transvaal...
South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
is a Dean of Engineering at the University of Johannesburg.
Academic career
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 WitwatersrandUniversity of the Witwatersrand
The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg is a South African university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg. It is more commonly known as Wits University...
. He is a professor extraordinaire at the University of Pretoria
University of Pretoria
The University of Pretoria is a multi campus public research university located in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa...
, was the Chair of the Local Loop Unbundling
Local loop unbundling
Local loop unbundling is the regulatory process of allowing multiple telecommunications operators to use connections from the telephone exchange to the customer's premises...
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
Councillor
A councillor or councilor is a member of a local government council, such as a city council.Often in the United States, the title is councilman or councilwoman.-United Kingdom:...
of Statistics South Africa
Statistics South Africa
Statistics South Africa is the national statistical service of South Africa, with the goal of producing timely, accurate, and official statistics in order to advance economic growth, development, and democracy. To this end, Statistics South Africa produces official demographic, economic, and...
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
Order of Mapungubwe
The Order of Mapungubwe is South Africa's highest honour. It was instituted on 6 December 2002, and is granted by the president of South Africa, for achievements in the international area which have served South Africa's interests...
and was the first African Engineer to be awarded the President Award by the National Research Foundation of South Africa
National Research Foundation of South Africa
South Africa’s National Research Foundation is the intermediary agency between the policies and strategies of the Government of South Africa and South Africa's research institutions....
.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (Magna Cum Laude) from Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA...
, a Master of Engineering from the University of Pretoria
University of Pretoria
The University of Pretoria is a multi campus public research university located in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa...
, a PhD in Engineering from St John's College, Cambridge
St John's College, Cambridge
St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college's alumni include nine Nobel Prize winners, six Prime Ministers, three archbishops, at least two princes, and three Saints....
and successfully completed a Program for Leadership Development at Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States and is widely recognized as one of the top business schools in the world. The school offers the world's largest full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, and many executive...
. 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
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. In the year 2007 to 2008, he has been appointed a visiting fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge
Wolfson College, Cambridge
Wolfson College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Wolfson is one of a small number of Cambridge colleges which admit only students over the age of 21. The majority of students at the college are postgraduates, with around 15% studying undergraduate...
. He matriculated at Mbilwi Secondary School
Mbilwi Secondary School
Mbilwi Secondary School is a school in the town of Sibasa in Limpopo, South Africa....
and completed Sixth Form at St John's College
St John's College (Johannesburg, South Africa)
St John's College is a private school for boys in Houghton, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.-History:St John's College was founded in Johannesburg on 1 August 1898 and is an Anglican school....
http://www.info.gov.za/aboutgovt/orders/2004/marwala.htm 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
Pseudo-modal energies
The Pseudo-modal energies are the estimation of the energy content of the system near the resonance frequencies. It is appropriately defined as the area near the natural frequencies of the frequency response functions....
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 and developmental state
Developmental state
Developmental state, or hard state, is a term used by international political economy scholars to refer to the phenomenon of state-led macroeconomic planning in East Asia in the late twentieth century...
. 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
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is the professional society for the field of aerospace engineering. The AIAA was founded in 1963 from the merger of two earlier societies: the American Rocket Society , founded in 1930 as the American Interplanetary Society , and the Institute...
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
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
. His work has appeared in publications such as New Scientist
New Scientist
New Scientist is a weekly non-peer-reviewed English-language international science magazine, which since 1996 has also run a website, covering recent developments in science and technology for a general audience. Founded in 1956, it is published by Reed Business Information Ltd, a subsidiary of...
, Time Magazine and The Economist
The Economist
The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in offices in the City of Westminster, London, England. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843...
.
Editorial duties
Editor: Journal of Computers http://www.academypublisher.com/jcp/Associate Editor: International Journal of Systems Science http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00207721.asp
Associate Editor: ICIC Express Letters http://www.ijicic.org/icicel.htm
Associate Editor: South African Journal of Science
South African Journal of Science
The South African Journal of Science is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary academic journal and the official publication of the Academy of Science of South Africa. It covers research in any field of interest to more than one discipline and with a regional focus on Africa. According to the Journal...
http://www.sajs.co.za/
Fellowships
1. Academy of Science of South AfricaAcademy of Science of South Africa
The Academy of Science of South Africa is the national science academy for that country. It was started in 1996, and encompasses all fields of scientific work. Its legal foundation is the Academy of Science of South Africa Act, Act 67 of 2001, which came into operation in May 2002...
(2007) http://www.assaf.co.za
2. South African Academy of Engineering
South African Academy of Engineering
The South African Academy of Engineering is a non-profit, independent institution with some 151 fellows drawn mainly from the engineering sector of the Republic of South Africa. The aims of the Academy are to promote excellence in the science and application of engineering for the benefit of...
(2007) http://www.saae.co.za
3. African Scientific Institute (2009)http://www.asi-org.net
Major awards
1. Order of MapungubweOrder of Mapungubwe
The Order of Mapungubwe is South Africa's highest honour. It was instituted on 6 December 2002, and is granted by the president of South Africa, for achievements in the international area which have served South Africa's interests...
http://www.thepresidency.gov.za/orders_list.asp?show=301
2. National Research Foundation
National Research Foundation
The National Research Foundation is a foundation of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the United Arab Emirates. It has been designed to promote research activity in private and public universities and colleges, at centers of research in institutes and in companies, by...
President’s Award (P-Rating) (2003) http://www.thepresidency.gov.za/orders_list.asp?show=301
3. TWAS-AAS-Microsoft 2009 Award http://twas.ictp.it/news-in-home-page/news/african-computer-scientists-recognized
Patents
1. David Mark Starfield David Milton Rubin. Tshilidzi Marwala Method and Apparatus for Radiation Imaging. IPC8 Class: AG01T100FI USPC Class: 25036302 http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/200802965042. David Mark Starfield David Milton Rubin. Tshilidzi Marwala Coded Appertures Masks for Ration-Based Medical Imaging. WO 2008/14254 http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/fetch.jsp?LANG=ENG&DBSELECT=PCT&SERVER_TYPE=19-10&SORT=41259450-KEY&TYPE_FIELD=256&IDB=0&IDOC=601271&C=10&ELEMENT_SET=B&RESULT=1&TOTAL=2&START=1&DISP=25&FORM=SEP-0/HITNUM,B-ENG,DP,MC,AN,PA,ABSUM-ENG&SEARCH_IA=IB2008001278&QUERY=%28FP%2fmarwala%29+
3. Megan J. Russell, David M. Rubin, B. Wigdorowitz and Tshilidzi Marwala. (SA Provisional Patent: 2008/05078) An artificial larynx. http://www.greengazette.co.za/pages/2008/07/Patent%20Journals/20080701%20-%20Patent%20Journal%20No%2012%20of%2001-Jul-2008,%20Volume%2041%20(Part%202%20of%202),%20150.pdf
Books
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
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