Prof. Kelvin Joseph Bwalya

Head of Research Development

Kelvin is professor of computer information systems and Head of Research Development. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (Hong Kong) and is a rated scholar by the South African National Research Foundation: C1 (Established Researcher). He has been extensively involved in postgraduate supervision, and examined over 100 Masters and PhD works. Kelvin has published over 100 pieces of peer-reviewed works including 3 authored and 6 edited books. He is a Visiting Professor in several universities around the world and has a very strong network of collaborators from China, Spain, USA, South Korea, among others.

He has been involved in tertiary accreditation exercises in Botswana, South Africa and Zambia as a Reviewer or Team Leader for IT programmes. He has also been engaged in consultancies for reputable public and private-sector organisations. He is a member of various professional organisations including the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists; Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa; Global Community of Information Professionals (Association of Information and Image Management); Association of Information Systems Professionals and Korea Information Processing Society (KIPS).