Posted by Dr Serena Coetzee on 4 May 2010, 09:43 (last modified on 1 Jun 2010, 18:56)

The Department is proud to announce that its Head of Department, Prof Andries Engelbrecht, has received the 2010 Exceptional Achiever Award from the University of Pretoria. The university makes these awards annually to professors who have maintained continuous exceptional achievement in the fields of under- and postgraduate teaching and learning, research, community service and administration, and who enjoy exceptionally high stature among their peers. The number of holders per year is limited to 50. In 2007, Prof Engelbrecht already received the Exceptional Young Researchers Award.

Prof Engelbrecht is head of the Department of Computer Science in the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. He holds the South African Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence, leads the Computational Intelligence Research Group (CIRG) in the department (http://cirg.cs.up.ac.za) and has published a number of books on Computational Intelligence:

Fundamentals of Computational Swarm Intelligence,
John Wiley & Sons, December 2005.

Computational Intelligence, An Introduction
John Wiley & Sons, Second edition to be published soon