Prof Tshilidzi Marwala
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Prof Tshilidzi Marwala is the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Johannesburg, beginning January 2018. Previously he was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Internationalisation and the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, both at the University of Johannesburg. He attained a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering (magna cum laude) from Case Western Reserve University (USA) in 1995, a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pretoria in 1997 and a PhD specialising in artificial intelligence and engineering from the University of Cambridge in 2000. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, University of California at Berkeley, Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge and Nanjing Tech University, as well as being a member of the programming council of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Silesian University of Technology in Poland. He has received more than 45 awards, including the Order of Mapungubwe, and was a delegate to the 1989 London International Youth Science Fortnight (LIYSF) when he was in high school. His writings and opinions have appeared in New Scientist, The Economist and TIME.
