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Modelling and Simulation of Complex Systems Using Computational Intelligence Techniques

Prof. T. Z. Marwala
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

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Biography of the Keynote Speaker

Tshilidzi Marwala, born 28 July 1971 in Venda, Limpopo, South Africa, is the Adhominem 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 and is a professor extraordinaire at the University of Pretoria. He is the youngest recipient of the Order of Mapungubwe, whose other recipients are Nobel Prize Winners Sydney Brenner, J.M. Coetzee, Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk. 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 the University of Cambridge, and a Program for Leadership Development from Harvard Business School. He was a post-doctoral research associate at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine and in the year 2006 to 2007 was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. In the year 2007 to 2008 he is a visiting fellow at Wolfson College of the University of Cambridge. His research interests include theory and applications 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 a Bayesian framework for solving engineering problems. He has successfully supervised 32 Masters and PhD students to completion and has published over 180 papers in journals, proceedings and book chapters. His book Computational Intelligence for Modelling Complex Systems is published by Research India Publications. He is an associate editor of the International Journal of Systems Science, Journal of Computers as well as the ICIC Express Letters: An International Journal of Research and Surveys. He was part of a team that succeeded in bringing the 2014 World Congress of Automatic Control to Africa for the first time. He sits on more than 9 boards such as City Power Johannesburg (Pty) Ltd., as well as the State Information Technology Agency (Pty) Ltd. He is a fellow of many organizations such as the Royal Society of Arts. His work has been featured in prestigious publications such as the New Scientist.

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