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Tshilidzi Marwala (Professor)

Professor Tshilidzi Marwala was born on 28 July 1971 in Venda South Africa. Marwala was previously a Dean of Engineering at the University of Johannesburg, a Professor of Electrical Engineering, 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 has been a visiting professor at Universities of Cambridge, Silesian, Nanjing Tech, Harvard and Pretoria.

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 (USA), a Master of Engineering from the University of Pretoria, a PhD in Engineering from University of Cambridge and was a post-doctoral research associate at the Imperial College (London).

He matriculated at Mbilwi Secondary School, attended the 1989 London International Youth Science Forum and completed Sixth Form at St John’s College, Johannesburg. He has supervised 47 masters and 21 PhD students to completion, holds 3 USA patents, and has published over 300 technical papers and 9 books (one translated into Chinese). He is a fellow of TWAS, The World Academy of Sciences, Academy of Science of South Africa and African Academy of Sciences as well as a senior member of the IEEE and a distinguished member of the Association for Computing Machinery.

His 9 books are (1) Computational Intelligence for Modelling Complex Systems. Delhi: Research India Publications (2007); (2) Computational Intelligence for Missing Data Imputation, Estimation, and Management: Knowledge Optimization Techniques. Pennsylvania: IGI Global (2009); (3) Finite Element Model Updating Using Computational Intelligence Techniques: Applications to Structural Dynamics. Heidelberg: Springer (2010); (4) with Monica Lagazio, Militarized Conflict Modeling Using Computational Intelligence. Heidelberg: Springer (2011); (5) Condition Monitoring Using Computational Intelligence Methods. Heidelberg: Springer (2012); (6) Economic Modeling Using Artificial Intelligence Methods. Heidelberg: Springer (2013); (7) Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Rational Decision Making. Heidelberg: Springer (2014); (8) Causality, Correlation, and Artificial Intelligence for Rational Decision Making. Singapore: World Scientific (2015); as well as (9) with Ilyes Boulkaibet and Sondipon Adhikari, Probabilistic Finite Element Model Updating Using Bayesian Statistics: Applications to Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering. London: John Wiley & Sons (2016).