Prof Fulufhelo Nelwamondo, CEO of the National Research Foundation, was named winner of the “Engineer of the Year” award for 2022 of the SA Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE) at its awards presentation evening in Johannesburg in early-March this year.
The prestigious annual award, which is sponsored by ACTOM, was presented this year by Lee Mbenge, General Manager of ACTOM Distribution Transformers, who is seen in the above picture (left) making the presentation to Prof Nelwamondo, accompanied by Prince Moyo, President of the SAIEE.
Prior to being appointed to his current post, Prof Nelwamondo held the position of CSIR Executive Manager responsible for the Next Generation Enterprises and Institution Cluster and also served as the Executive Director of the CSIR Modelling and Digital Science Unit and a visiting professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Johannesburg.
He previously was a post-doctoral fellow at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University, having been the youngest South African to receive the Harvard-South Africa fellowship. He holds BSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering in Computational Intelligence.
Prof Nelwamondo, who has been awarded many national and international research awards, is a founding member of the SA Young Academy of Science and served on the Department of Home Affairs’ ministerial advisory committee on modernisation.
