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Professor Tshilidzi Marwala was the chair of the Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) Committee.
Professor Tshilidzi Marwala is currently the SARChI Chair of Systems Engineering and Head of Control and Systems Group at the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand, was the Chair of the Local Loop Unbundling Committee, is on boards of EOH (Pty) Ltd, City Power Johannesburg (Pty) Ltd, National Advisory Council on Innovation and a Fellow of the CSIR and was a board member of the State Information Technology Agency (Pty) Ltd and Statistics South Africa. He is the deputy chairman of the Limpopo Business Support Agency. In 2004 he received the Order of Mapungubwe, the highest national award given to a South African citizen, from the Republic of South Africa President Thabo Mbeki.
He was previously an Executive Assistant to the Technical Director at the South African Breweries and a project engineer for CSIR. He matriculated from Mbilwi Secondary School in Sibasa and holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering with a Magna Cum Laude from Case Western Reserve University, a Master of Engineering from the University of Pretoria, a PhD in Computational Intelligence from University of Cambridge and was a post-doctoral research associate at the Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine of the University of London.
He has successfully completed a Program for Leadership Development at Harvard University. In year 2006-2007 he was a visiting fellow at Harvard University and in year 2007-2008 he is a visiting fellow at University of Cambridge. Prof. Marwala has received over 41 awards; has published over 170 articles in refereed international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters and has successfully supervised 30 postgraduate students at masters and PhD levels and has collaborated with 44 national as well as international researchers.
Marwala has presented his work in major international forums in India, UK, Nederland, USA, Canada, Hungary, Poland, Mauritius and Japan. His research interests include the application of computational intelligence to engineering, computer science, finance, social science and medicine. His work has been featured in magazines such Time Magazine, New Scientist and ACM Tech News.
Professor Tshilidzi Marwala is currently the SARChI Chair of Systems Engineering and Head of Control and Systems Group at the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand, was the Chair of the Local Loop Unbundling Committee, is on boards of EOH (Pty) Ltd, City Power Johannesburg (Pty) Ltd, National Advisory Council on Innovation and a Fellow of the CSIR and was a board member of the State Information Technology Agency (Pty) Ltd and Statistics South Africa. He is the deputy chairman of the Limpopo Business Support Agency. In 2004 he received the Order of Mapungubwe, the highest national award given to a South African citizen, from the Republic of South Africa President Thabo Mbeki.
He was previously an Executive Assistant to the Technical Director at the South African Breweries and a project engineer for CSIR. He matriculated from Mbilwi Secondary School in Sibasa and holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering with a Magna Cum Laude from Case Western Reserve University, a Master of Engineering from the University of Pretoria, a PhD in Computational Intelligence from University of Cambridge and was a post-doctoral research associate at the Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine of the University of London.
He has successfully completed a Program for Leadership Development at Harvard University. In year 2006-2007 he was a visiting fellow at Harvard University and in year 2007-2008 he is a visiting fellow at University of Cambridge. Prof. Marwala has received over 41 awards; has published over 170 articles in refereed international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters and has successfully supervised 30 postgraduate students at masters and PhD levels and has collaborated with 44 national as well as international researchers.
Marwala has presented his work in major international forums in India, UK, Nederland, USA, Canada, Hungary, Poland, Mauritius and Japan. His research interests include the application of computational intelligence to engineering, computer science, finance, social science and medicine. His work has been featured in magazines such Time Magazine, New Scientist and ACM Tech News.
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