Ali Montaz Montaz

NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION RATING: B1

New Honours Course: PDE Constrained Optimization and Optimal Control: 2024--

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Stochastic Methods for Global Optimization; Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming Problems; Optimal Control Theory; Operations Research; Industrial Mathematics

PLENARY, SEMI-PLENARY, KEYNOTE AND INVITED TALKS: (1) Keynote Address, Annual General Meeting, Operations Research Society, Johannesburg Chapter, 12 November, 2008. (2) Plenary Talk, International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProS), 2011, December 2022, 2011, IIT Roorkee, India. (3) Keynote Address, Workshop on ecient optimization in mine planning, Wits School of Mining, July 6, 2012. (4) Public Lecture, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, 25th September, 2013. (5) Plenary Talk, International Conference on Mathematical Analysis and Optimization: Theory and Applications, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria, March 11 to March 14, 2014. (6) Plenary Talk, International Workshop on Mixed Integer Programming, organized by Optimization and System Engineering Research Group, Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, November 14, 2014. (7) Invited Talk, South African Process Optimization Symposium, University of the Witwatersrand, 12 - 14 August, Johannesburg, 2014. (8) Plenary Talk, International Conference on Mathematical Analysis and Optimization: Theory and Applications, 23rd to 26th March, 2015, University of Lagos, Nigeria. (9) Plenary Talk, South African Symposium on Numerical and Applied Mathematics, 30th March 10 1st April, 2015, University of Pretoria, South Africa. (10) Invited Talk, Third La Serena School for Data Science 2015, La Serena, Chile, August 15-22, 2015. (11) Semi-Plenary Talk, 57th Annual Conference of SASA (Soth African Statistical Association), SASA2015, 29th November to 2nd December, 2015, University of Pretoria, South Africa. (12) Keynote Address, International Workshop on Optimizing Industrial Processes for Cost Eective Operations, 5th to 8th March, 2017, University of Lagos, Nigeria. (13) Plenary Talk, International Conference on Mathematical Analysis and Optimization: Theory and Applications, 9th to 11th March, 2017, University of Lagos, Nigeria. (14) Invited Talk, Articial Intelligence Workshop, University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa, March 1-3, 2017. (15) Invited speaker, African Workshop on Mathematical Optimization, University of Zululand, South African, November 11-15, 2019. (16) Plenary Speaker: SCRS International Expert Lecture Series: NIA-2, Soft Computing Research Society (virtual), Calcutta, India, August 5-9, 2020. (17) Invited Speaker: Remaking the World through Machine Learning, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, December 2-9, 2020. (18) Invited Speaker: International Conference on Scientific and Natural Computing (SNC2021) (virtual), Department of Applied Mathematics, Gautam Buddha University, India, February 5-6, 2021. (19) Keynote Speaker: 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances and Applications (ICAIAA 2021), Jointly Organized by Poornima College of Engineering, Jaipur and Rajasthan Technical University Kota (in Association with Soft Computing Research Society) MARCH 27-28, 2021. (20) Invited Speaker, THE ROLE OF LINEAR ALGEBRA IN MACHINE LEARNING, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & DATA SCIENCE, 29th November 2021-3rd December, 2021, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology (MGIT), Hyderabad, India;

(21) Invited Speaker, Workshop on Recent Trends in Optimization and Control, University of Pretoria, September, 18-22, 2023.

RESEARCH SUPERVISION:

1. P. Kaelo, PhD (2005); 2. Aderemi Adewami, PhD (2010); 3. Eric Newby, PhD (2013); 4. Ian Campbell, PhD (2013); 5. Said Sima, PhD (2015); 6. Terry Leigh Oliphant, PhD (2015); 7 Jacoba Hendrina Buhrmann, PhD (2016); 8. Salha Mamane (Co-supervised), PhD (2016); 9. Adam C Earle (Co-supervised), PhD (2019); 10. Sakirudeen Akinkunmi Abdulsalaam PhD (2020); 11. Salma Omer, PhD (2022); 12. Matthews Sejeso, PhD (2022); 13. Daniel Arficho Gaenore, PhD (2022); 14. Lerato Prince Phokomela, PhD (2023); 15. Nouralden Mohamed, PhD(2023).