Dr. Malela is a senior lecturer in the department of Statistics, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Science (NAS), at the University of Pretoria (UP). Dr. Malela obtained his Honours and Master's degrees in Statistics from UP, and a PhD in Statistics from UNISA. In 2018, he was awarded the first prize of the best paper at the 60th South African Statistical Association conference (SASA2018). Dr. Malela has more than ten years teaching experience in tertiary institutions and he is engaged in teaching, supervision and research. In addition, he is an external examiner in several Universities around South Africa. This includes the examination of masters and PhD theses in statistical fields. Dr Malela received a C3 rating from NRF. Dr Malela is a member of the SASA, the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and the Institute of Certificated and Chartered Statisticians of South Africa (ICCSSA). He has published more than fifty articles in international accredited peer-review journals and his principal research interests include Statistical Process Control and Nonparametric Methods. In addition, he is a reviewer in many journals of high repute including the Journal of Statistical Simulation and Computation, Communications in Statistics (Both), the Journal of Applied Statistics just to cite a few. |
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