Fulufhelo Nelwamondo

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Fulufhelo Vincent Nelwamondo
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Fulufhelo Nelwamondo
Born1982 (age 40–41)
Lwamondo, Venda, Limpopo Province, South Africa
Nationality South African
Alma mater University of the Witwatersrand
Harvard University
Known for Artificial intelligence
Missing data
Information security
Awards Order of Mapungubwe in Silver
Scientific career
Fields Electrical Engineering
Institutions University of Johannesburg
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Thesis Computation intelligence techniques for missing data imputation (2008)
Doctoral advisor Tshilidzi Marwala
Website whoswho.co.za/fulufhelo-nelwamondo-6803

Fulufhelo Vincent Nelwamondo (OMS) is an electrical engineer by training, and holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering (Computational Intelligence) from the University of the Witwatersrand, in South Africa. He is the youngest recipient of the Harvard-South Africa Fellowship Programme amongst other honours. His research and practical experience has covered a wide spectrum of areas, including software engineering and computational intelligence. His interests include biometrics-based systems, data mining and machine learning tools. [1]

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Early life and career

Nelwamondo was born in 1982 in Lukau village, within the greater Lwamondo Village in Venda, Limpopo province, South Africa. He attended Belemu Primary School and matriculated at Mbilwi Secondary School. He was awarded a bursary by Eskom to study electrical engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, [2] obtaining his BEng(Electrical) in 2005. He was accredited by the Engineering Council of South Africa in 2006 and obtained his PhD in 2008 under supervision of Tshilidzi Marwala. [3]

Nelwamondo is the chief executive officer of the National Research Foundation of South Africa. [4] Nelwamondo joined the Modelling and Digital Science unit (MDS) of the CSIR in 2008, and became acting director in 2014 and executive director in 2016; prior to 2008 he had been a principal researcher and a competence area manager for Information Security. [5]

He was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University for 2008–2009 as part of the Harvard Centre for African Studies' South African Fellowship Programme, [6] becoming the youngest recipient of the Harvard-South Africa Fellowship Programme.

In November 2011 he was listed as a Senior Member of the IEEE. [7] He is a visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg [8] (UJ) and was listed as a Promising Young Researcher in UJ's list of NRF-rated researchers. [9] He is a founding board member of the South African Young Academy of Science. [10]

In 2011, the South African breakfast cereal manufacturer Pioneer Foods conducted an interview with Nelwamondo as part of a series of advertisements celebrating South African achievers and the breakfast cereal ProNutro. [11]

Awards

In addition to a number of CSIR awards, Newlamondo has been awarded the following, inter alia:

Conferences and journals

Nelwamondo was an editor and a reviewer for a number of international journals and in programme committees of several international conferences. He has published over 100 research papers in peer-reviewed journals (such as the SAIEE [18] ), conferences and book chapters. [1] Some of the conferences in which he has participated include:

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  10. ↑ "Members: SAYAS". South African Young Academy of Science. SAYAS.org. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  11. ↑ ProNutroSA (9 May 2011), Celebrating ProNutro SA Achievers - Fulufhelo Nelwamondo , retrieved 14 February 2019
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