Glen Nwaila
Director of the Wits Mining Institute and Visiting Adjunct Professor in the School of Geosciences at the University of the Witwatersrand at University of Witwatersrand
Biography
University of Witwatersrand
Glen Nwaila is the Director of the Wits Mining Institute (WMI) and Visiting Adjunct Professor in the School of Geosciences at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). His main research focuses on increasing the integration of high-dimensional mining and mineral resources data with machine learning for uncertainty reduction and optimal decision-making. Prior to joining Wits, Glen worked in the mining and consulting industries for a period of 13 years, where he led teams of mining professionals and led audits in the mineral resources and extractive metallurgy plants. At Sibanye Stillwater, Glen led the Geology functions in the Driefontein operations. He also served as Manager at Deloitte Technical Mining Advisory (DTMA). He has served as an Erasmus Mundus Scholar at Uppsala University since 2018. Nwaila completed his PhD in Geosciences (Magna Cum Laude) at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg in Germany. Glen also holds an MSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cape Town and a BSc (Honours) in Geology from the University of Johannesburg. He was recently appointed to the 35 IGC Legacy Fund’s Board of Directors. He is a Professional Natural Scientist (Pr.Sci.Nat.) with the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SACNASP). Glen is also a Fellow of the Geological Society of South Africa (FGSSA).
Education
- BSc Hons University of Johannesburg (2010 — 2010)
- BSc University of Johannesburg (2007 — 2009)
- Selective courses University of Johannesburg
Companies
- Director of the Wits Mining Institute University of the Witwatersrand (2022)
- Visiting Lecturer/Erasmus Mundus Scholar Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University (2019)
- Adjunct Professor University of the Witwatersrand (2020 — 2022)
- Senior Economic Geology Lecturer University of the Witwatersrand (2020 — 2020)
- Manager - Technical Mining Advisory Deloitte (2019 — 2020)
- Economic Geology Lecturer University of the Witwatersrand (2018 — 2019)
- Economic Geology Lecturer University of the Witwatersrand (2017 — 2019)
- Visiting Researcher/ Guest Lecturer University of Cape Town (2015 — 2017)
- Mineralogist SGS SOUTH AFRICA HOLDINGS (2017 — 2017)
Videos
Machine learning for subsurface geological & geophysical decision-making - Prof Glen Nwaila, Wits
Gesocience Careers - Geo-spatial Statistics and Machine Learning - Prof Glen Nwaila
Wits Geotalk - Computational modeling of ore variability using machine learning ... - Glen Nwaila
Geoscience Career Advice - Careers - Glen Nwaila
Wits Geotalk - Granite-greenstone terranes & formation of Wits-type Au mineralisation - Glen Nwaila
Wits Geotalk - HSE in Archaean & Palaeoproterozoic shales of the Kaapvaal - Dr Glen Nwaila
ODH 86:Erosion channels in the Witwatersrand Basin: evidence for syngenetic placer Au - Glen Nwaila
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