Andries Engelbrecht¶
Voigt Chair in Data Science¶
Department of Industrial Engineering, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Professor¶
Computer Science Division, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Research Fellow¶
Gulf University for Science and Technology, The Center for Applied Mathematics and Bioinformatics, Kuwait
Adjunct Faculty Member¶
Center for Research and Innovative Learning, South Asian University, India
Bio¶
I received the Masters and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, in 1994 and 1999 respectively. I am currently appointed as the Voigt Chair in Data Science in the Department of Industrial Engineering, with a joint appointment as Professor in the Computer Science Division, Stellenbosch University. Prior to my appointment at Stellenbosch University, I have been at the University of Pretoria, Department of Computer Science (1998-2018), where I was appointed as South Africa Research Chair in Artifical Intelligence (2007-2018), the head of the Department of Computer Science (2008-2017), and Director of the Institute for Big Data and Data Science (2017-2018).
In addition to a number of research articles, I have written two books, Computational Intelligence: An Introduction and Fundamentals of Computational Swarm Intelligence.
Qualifications¶
I have completed all of my degrees at Stellenbosch University:
- BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics (1990)
- BScHons in Computer Science (1992)
- MSc in Computer Science (1994)
- with a focus on telecommunications
- thesis title Modelling Algorithms for the South African Telephone Network
- PhD in Computer Science (1999)
- with a focus on artifical neural networks
- thesis title Sensitivity Analysis of Multilayer Neural Networks
Professional Services¶
Outside of my academic duties, I also serve as:
- Deputy-Editor-in-Chief for the Engineering Application of Artificial Intelliggence Journal
- Series Editor for the Artificial Intelligence Book Series, IntechOpen
- Associate-Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
- Associate-Editor for the Swarm Intelligence Journal
- Associate-Editor for the Evolutionary Computation Journal
- Associate-Editor for the Complex & Intelligent Systems Journal
- Associate-Editor for the International Transactions on Operation Research
- Associate-Editor for the International Journal of Cognitive Computing in Engineering
- Editorial board of the Evolutionary Computation Journal
Associations with industry are as follows:
- Member of the advisory team of Merlynn Intelligent Technologies
Contact Information¶
Department of Industrial Engineering and Computer Science Division
University of Stellenbosch
Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa
B2023, Industrial Engineering Building
University of Stellenbosch
c.o. Banghoek Road and Joubert Street
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Tel: +27 21 808 9259
E-mail: engel@sun.ac.za