Tshilidzi Marwala born in Venda (Limpopo, South Africa) is the Dean of Engineering at the University of Johannesburg. He was previously a Full 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 is a Fellow of the following institutions: Royal Society of Arts, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South African Academy of Engineering, South African Academy of Science, TWAS - The Academy of Science of the Developing World and Mapungubwe Institute of Strategic Reflection. He is a senior member of the IEEE and distinguished member of the ACM. He is the youngest recipient of the Order of Mapungubwe and was awarded the President Award by the National Research Foundation. 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 Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and completed a Program for Leadership Development at Harvard Business School. He was a post-doctoral research associate at Imperial College (London) and was a visiting fellow at Harvard University, Wolfson College (Cambridge) and a Visiting Scholar at the University of California (Berkeley). His research interests include the application of computational intelligence to engineering, computer science, finance, social science and medicine. He has successfully supervised 35 masters and 6 PhD students, published over 200 refereed papers, holds 3 patents and authored 3 books.


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