Tshilidzi Marwala born 28 July 1971 in Venda, South Africa is the Carl and Emily Fuchs Chair of Systems and Control Engineering at the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand, is a 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 is a councillor of Statistics South Africa as well as the National Advisory Council on Innovation and a Fellow of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. 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 attended 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 was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. His research interests include the application of computational intelligence to engineering, computer science, finance, social science and medicine. He has published over 120 papers in journals such as the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal, proceedings and book chapters. He lives in Johannesburg with his wife and son. July 28 is the 209th day (210th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 156 days remaining. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... Venda was a bantustan in northern South Africa, now part of Limpopo province. ... The University of the Witwatersrand (pronounced vit-vaters-rant, with flat vowels -- see South African English) is a leading South African university situated in Johannesburg. ... Local loop unbundling (LLU) is the process of allowing telecommunications operators to use the twisted-pair telephone connections from the telephone exchanges central office to the customer premises. ... Limpopo refers to both: Limpopo River in Southern Africa Limpopo Province of South Africa This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A councillor is a member of a council (such as a city council), particularly in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and other parts of the Commonwealth. ... Statistics South Africa is the national statistics board of South Africa. ... The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is South Africas central and premier scientific research and development organization. ... The Order of Mapungubwe is South Africas highest honour. ... The National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa is a government research foundation. ... Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an academic degree was earned. ... Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. It was formed in 1967 by the federation of Case Institute of Technology (founded in 1880 by philanthropist Leonard Case Jr. ... The University of Pretoria is a university in South Africa, with a total of about 38 499 students being enrolled in 2005. ... Full name The College of Saint John the Evangelist of the University of Cambridge Motto Souvent me Souvient I Often Remember Named after The Hospital of Saint John the Evangelist, Cambridge, named after John the Evangelist Previous names Incorporates part of what was Merton Hall which no longer exists Established... HBS, as seen from across the Charles River. ... Royal School of Mines Entrance Imperial College London is a college of the University of London which focuses on science and technology, and is located in South Kensington in London. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the scholarly society for the field of aerospace engineering. ... City motto: Unity in Development Province Gauteng Mayor Amos Masondo Area  - % water 1,644 km² 0. ...

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.

External links

• His biography
• His website
• City Power Website
• SITA Website
• Fuchs Foundation