Chair and Co-Chair

Reggie Davidrajuh has a Bachelor degree in Physics, a Master degree in Control Systems, and a PhD in Industrial Engineering (awarded by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Also, he has a DSc (habilitation) degree in Information Science (AGH University of Science and Technology) and one more PhD in Mechanical Engineering (Silesian University of Technology). He is a Professor of Informatics at the University of Stavanger, Norway, and a visiting professor at the Silesian University of Technology, Poland. Dr Davidrajuh is an editor of the journal “International Journal of Business and Systems Research” and an associate editor of “Expert Systems with Applications”. His current research interests are: Modeling of Discrete-event Systems, Algorithms, and Graph Theory. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. He is also a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences. He is the author of, “Modeling discrete-event systems with GPenSIM: An introduction” by Springer.

Professor Pius Adewale Owolawi is the Head of the Department of Computer Systems Engineering at the Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. He made it to the top 500 researchers in Africa between 2015 and 2020. Prof. Owolawi has over 140 scholarly outputs and 584 citations. He has a PhD in Electronics Engineering from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). He holds an advanced Diploma in Remote Engineering, Mechatronics and Robotics from the Engineering Institute of Technology, Australia. He recently completed Postgraduate Programmes in AI and Machine Learning, Data Science and Business Analytics through the University of Texas Executive Education Program, USA and a Postgraduate Program in Cloud Computing through the Great Lakes Institute of Management Executive Learning, India. He is currently registered for an LLB at the University of South Africa (UNISA). He is a member ECSA, IEEE, SAIEE, SARL and SAAMSAT. He has been appointed as a 4IR research chair for MICT SETA. He is involved in several industrial projects within South Africa and abroad. He has won several research and innovation awards.