Tshilidzi Marwala

Tshilidzi Marwala is the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Johannesburg (South Africa) . He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (magna cum laude) from Case Western Reserve University (USA) in 1995, a Master of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pretoria in 1997 and a PhD specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Engineering from the University of Cambridge in 2000.

His research interests are multi-disciplinary and they include the theory and application of artificial intelligence to engineering, computer science, finance, social science and medicine. Tshilidzi Marwala has supervised 47 Master’s and 27 Doctoral students to completion. He has published 12 books in artificial intelligence, one of these has been translated into Chinese, over 300 papers in journals, proceedings, book chapters and magazines and holds three international patents.

He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, University of California at Berkeley, Wolfson College of the University of Cambridge and Nanjing Tech University as well as the council of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Silesian University of Technology in Poland. His writings and opinions have appeared in the magazines New Scientist, The Economist and Time Magazine.