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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 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, Deputy Chair of Limpopo Business Support Agency and is on boards of EOH (Pty) Ltd, City Power Johannesburg (Pty) Ltd as well as the State Information Technology Agency (Pty) Ltd. 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 [2] 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. His work has appeared in publications such as New Scientist, Time Magazine and The Economist.

Research Interests

1. Computational Intelligence

2. Medical Imaging

3. Finite element updating

4. Missing Data Imputation

5. Complexity Modelling

6. Modelling Games

Editorial Duties

Editor: Journal of Computers [3]

Associate Editor: International Journal of Systems Science [4]

Associate Editor: ICIC Express Letters [5]

Associate Editor: South African Journal of Science [6]

Fellowships

1. Academy of Science of South Africa (2007)

2. Royal Statistical Society (2008)

3. South African Academy of Engineering (2007)

4. African Scientific Institute (2009)

5. Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) (2007)

6. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (2004)

7. Cambridge Philosophical Society (1998)

8. Cambridge Commonwealth Trust (1998)

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

Quotes

"Knowledge not shared is no knowledge at all" ^{[citation needed]}

"An opportunity of a lifetime should be taken during the lifetime of the opportunity" [7]

"We cannot maximise our ability to innovate if we neglect what is integral to our reference of knowledge" [8]

Major Awards

1. Order of Mapungubwe

2. National Research Foundation President’s Award (P-Rating) (2003)

3. Council of City of Johannesburg: Motion of Congratulations for Contribution to Science Adopted (2004)

4. TWAS-AAS-Microsoft 2009 Award

Patents

1. David Mark Starfield David Milton Rubin. Tshilidzi Marwala Method and Apparatus for Radiation Imaging. IPC8 Class: AG01T100FI USPC Class: 25036302 [9]

2. David Mark Starfield David Milton Rubin. Tshilidzi Marwala Coded Appertures Masks for Ration-Based Medical Imaging. WO 2008/14254 [10]

3. Megan J. Russell, David M. Rubin, B. Wigdorowitz and Tshilidzi Marwala. (SA Provisional Patent: 2008/05078) An artificial larynx. [11]

Notable Students Supervised

1. Dr. Sizwe Dhlamini

2. Dr. Brain Betechuoh Leke

3. Dr. Fulufhelo Nelwamondo [12]

4. Dr. Anthony Gidudu [13]

5. Shakir Mohamed [14]

5. Dalton Lunga [15]

7. Evan Hurwitz

8. Dr. David Starfield [16]

9. Adam Pantanowitz [17]

10. Dan Golding [18]

11. Baruch Lubinsky [19]

12. Darreen Blend [20]

13. Linda Mthembu [21]

14. Nthabiseng Hlalele [22]

15. Wabo Majavu [23]

16. Jonathan Michael Spiller

17. Busisiwe Vikakazi [24]

18. Vukosi Ntsakisa Marivate [25]

19. Ishmael S'busiso Msiza [26]

20. Pretesh Bhoola Patel

21. Mussa Ismail Abdella

23. Lukasz Antoni Machowski

24. Dhiresh Ramchander Surajpal

25. Pires, Michael Maio

26. Habtemariam, Eyasu Andemariam

27. Tim, Taryn Nicole Ho

28. Ransome, Trevor Malcolm

29. Crossingham, Bodie

30. Kiremire, Bunty Byarugaba

31. Thando Tettey

32. Setati, Makgopa Gareth

33. Scurrell, Simon John

34. Lesedi Masisi

35. Sarah Wright

36. Tendani Malumedzha

37. Zaheer Dindar

38. Bradely van Aradt

39. Elbert Marais

40. Morongwe Malebye

41. Djonon Hypolyte

References

T. Marwala. Fault classification using pseudo modal energies and neural networks. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal, 2003, 41(1), pp. 82–89.
M. Lagazio and T. Marwala. Assessing different Bayesian neural network models for militarized interstate dispute. Social Science Computer Review, 2006, 24(1), pp. 119–131.
D. Lunga, T. Marwala. Online forecasting of stock market movement direction using the improved incremental algorithm. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, In Neural Information Processing, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Volume 4234, 2006, pp. 440–449.
T. Marwala. The national democratic revolution, technology and a developed economy. Umrabulo, Vol. 22, 2005, pp. 58–60.
T.N. Tim and T. Marwala. Computational Intelligence Methods for Risk Assessment of HIV. Proceedings of the International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering, 2006, Vol. 14, pp. 3581–3585, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg. Eds. Sun I. Kim and Tae Suk Sah, ISSN 1727-1983.
T. Marwala and S. Chakraverty. Fault classification in structures with incomplete measured data using autoassociative neural networks and genetic algorithm. Current Science Journal, 2006, 90(4), pp. 542–548.

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References

^ T. Marwala. The anatomy of capital and the National Democratic Revolution. Umrabulo, Vol. 29, 2007, pp. 57-59..
^ Marwala, Tshilidzi. 2009. Foundations for a Developmental State: A case for technical education arXiv:0907.2019v1.[1]

[1] T. Marwala. The anatomy of capital and the National Democratic Revolution. Umrabulo, Vol. 29, 2007, pp. 57-59..

[2] Marwala, Tshilidzi. 2009. Foundations for a Developmental State: A case for technical education arXiv:0907.2019v1.[1]

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