Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Johannesburg; Senior researcher, and Leader of the Biometrics research, CSIR, youngest South African to receive the Harvard fellowship. His research work has been presented in Hungary, Taiwan,China, USA, Canada, United Kingdom, South Africa, Botswana, etc. He is the recipient of many research awards! Prof Nelwamondo has published over 40 papers in Journals, Book chapters and conference proceedings. He has succesfully co-supervised no less than 4 MSc degrees, and curently has many PhD's in the pipeline
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Visiting Professor - University of Johannesburg, Joihannesburg, South Africa
(2009 - present)
Editor - International Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications (ISSN: 1975-9339),
(2009 - present)
Leader: Biometrics Research - CSIR, South Africa
(2008 - present)
Editor - Journal of Computers (ISSN: 1796-203X)
(2008 - present)
Editor - Journal of Computers (ISSN: 1796-203X) (2008—to date)
(2008 - present)
Editor - Proceedings of the WMSCI (ISBN-13: 978-1-934272-35-0) (2008)
(2008 - present)
Director - DynamiData (pty) ltd. [Trading as: Intellidata Analytics (Pty) Ltd], South Africa
(2007 - present)
Research / Consulting Engineer -
(2006 - present)
Session Chairs: - PRASA confernces, IEEE Systems Man and Cybenetics,
Previous Position(s)
Teaching Fellow - Harvard University
(2009 - 2009)
Post-Doctoral Fellow - Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
(2008 - 2009)
Co-chair and Co-organiz12th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cyberneter - Artificial Intelligence for Modeling Missing Data: 12th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, Florida, USA
(2008 - 2008)
Sessional Lecturer - School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
“Management and Information Modelling” , in, AUTOMATIC CONTROL, MODELING & SIMULATION conference of the World Scientific Enginee
Research Assistant - Computational Intelligence Research Unit, Wits
(2003 - 2005)
Higher Education
Degree - University of the Witwatersrand
Bachelor of Science (Engineering)
Degree - University of the Witwatersrand
Doctor of Philosophy (2008)
Qualification - Harvard University, Cambridge
Post Doctoral Fellow (2009)
High School Education
Mbilwi Senior Secondary, Venda, Lipopo Province
Family
Marital Status: Single
Father: Albert Nelwamondo Mother: Sarah
Noteworthy Events/Interesting Facts
He is an active researcher in engineering, with more focus on computational intelligence. He completed his PhD under the supervision of Professor Tshilidzi Marwala and he is the youngest South African to be awarded the Harvard fellowship. He has pre
He has also been a reviewer in several journals and conferences such as the IEEE Transaction on Neural Networks, the Open Aerospace Engineering Journal, Elsevier Neural Networks Journal, the International Journal of Systems Science, SAIMM Journal and
He has chaired several sessions in international conferences held in various countries such as Czech Republic, USA, South Africa, etc. He has also co-organised an invited session titled 'Artificial Intelligence for Modelling Missing Data in the 12th
He is in several international Program commitees of organizations such as the IEEE and Associate Editor for the Journal of Computers
Achievements
Certificate of Appreciation for presenting a lecture - World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS)
Spain
Completing MSc with distinction - University of the Witwatersrand
Wits
Certificate of Appreciation for presenting a lecture in ACMOS - World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS)
Praha, Czech Republic
Scholarship Award for MSc studies - Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
South Africa
Article - IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
(2006)
Best Session Presenter Award - IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
Vancouver, Canada
Article - Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS Int. Conference on Automatic Control, Modeling and Simulation
(2006)
National Research Foundation postgraduate scholarship award for MSc - National Research Foundation (NRF)
South Africa
Microsoft Research Limited, Cambridge, Scholarship - Microsoft
MSc degree being converted to a PhD - University of the Witwatersrand
South Africa
Post Graduate Merit Award - University of the Witwatersrand
Wits
Article - Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa
(2006)
Harvard-South Africa Fellowship - Harvard Univesrity
Cambridge, USA
(Being the youngest South African to receive the Harvard-South Africa Fellowship
Article - WSEAS Transactions on Systems
(2006)
SAIEE Premium: Best Paper Award - SAIEE
South Africa
Article - WSEAS Transaction on Power Systems
(2006)
2009 National Science and Technology Forum Award Finalist - NSTF
(2009)
Young Researcher Award for significant contribution to research over the last 2-5 years.
National Research Foundation free-standing postdoctoral fellowship for research abroad, -
(2009)
Article - IEEE International Conference on Sytems, Man and Cybernatics, Montreal (Canada)
(2007)
Premium: 2008 Best paper award - South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE)
(2008)
Best Paper award - International Institute of Informatics and Systemics
USA (2008)
Best paper presentation awards - IEEE
Canada (2006)
Article - 11th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems, Budapest
(2007)
15 articles - various
(2007/2008)
Author
FOREWORD - T. Marwala, Computational Intelligence for Missing Data Imputation, Estimation and management: Knowledge Optimization Techniques
Activities
Member - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
(2008)
Mentor - Pre-Univerisity Mentorship Program
Gauteng (Extending to National Level) (2007)
Member - International Institute of Informatics and Systemics
(2008)
Member - International Neural Network Society
(2007)
Member - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
(2007)
Member - Pacific Optimization Research Activity Group
(2006)
Candidate Engineer - Engineering Council of South Africa
(2006)
Member - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE): Computational Intelligence Society; Systems, Man and Cybernetics
(2006)
Member - World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society
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