Tshilidzi Marwala is currently the Deputy Vice Chancellor: Research, Innovation, Postgraduate Studies and the Library at the University of Johannesburg. He was the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Johannesburg. He serves as extraordinary professor at many universities, including University of Pretoria. He was previously a full Professor of Electrical Engineering, the Carl and Emily Fuchs Chair of Systems and Control Engineering as well as the South Africa Chair (SARChI) of Systems Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand. Prior to this, he was an executive assistant to the technical director at the South African Breweries. He has served as the Chair of the Local Loop Unbundling Committee that was tasked by the Department of Communications with the responsibility to unbundle Telkom’s local loop, as a Chairman of Pikitup Board, on the Board of Directors of the State Information Technology Agency (SITA), EOH Pty Ltd, Denel Soc Ltd, City Power Johannesburg Soc Ltd, as a Deputy Chairman of the Limpopo Business Support Agency, as a member of the National Advisory Council on Innovation, and as a member of Statistics South Africa Council. He is a member of the ICT Advisory Council of the South African government and he is a Chairman of the ICT Infrastructure of the Department of Communications. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (magna cum laude) from Case Western Reserve University (USA), a Master of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pretoria, a PhD in Engineering from Cambridge University, was a post-doctoral research associate at the Imperial College (London) and completed a Program for Leadership Development at Harvard Business School. He is a registered professional engineer, a Fellow of TWAS, The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, the Academy of Science of South Africa, The African Academy of Sciences, CSIR and the South African Academy of Engineering. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE Prof Tshilidzi Marwala OMB PrEng SMIEEE DMACM FTWAS MASSAf FSAAE PhD 01/08/2014 3 of 37 (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering) and a distinguished member of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).

His research interests are multi-disciplinary and they include the applications of computational intelligence to engineering, computer science, finance, social science and medicine. He has extensive track record in human capacity development having supervised 43 Masters and 17 PhD students to completion.