Tshilidzi Marwala holds a Chair of Systems Engineering at the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is the youngest recipient of the Order of Mapungubwe (whose other recipients are Nobel Prize Winners Sydney Brenner and J.M. Coetzee) and was awarded the President Award by the National Research Foundation. 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, PhD in Engineering from University of Cambridge (St John's College) 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 to 2007 was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. His research interests include theory and application of computational intelligence to engineering, computer science, finance, social science and medicine. He has published over 150 papers in journals, proceedings and book chapters and has supervised 30 master and PhD theses. His book Computational Intelligence for Modelling Complex Systems is published by Research India Publications. He is the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Systems Science. His work has appeared in publications such as the New Scientist and Time Magazine. He was a Chair of the Local Loop Unbundling Committee, is a Deputy Chair of the Limpopo Business Support Agency and has been on boards of EOH (Pty) Ltd, City Power (Pty) Ltd, State Information Technology Agency (Pty) Ltd, Statistics South Africa and the National Advisory Council on Innovation. He is a trustee of the Bradlow Foundation as well as the Carl and Emily Fuchs Foundation. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM.