Dr. Chinedu Izuchukwu is a lecturer at the School of Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa.  He obtained his master’s and doctoral degrees in mathematics (functional analysis) from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa in 2017 and 2019, respectively. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (funded by NRF & CoE-MaSS) and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in 2020 and 2020-2022, respectively. 

His research is generally in the area of functional analysis with a focus on optimization and fixed point algorithms. He constructs and develops iterative algorithms with interesting applications for solving optimization and fixed point problems. Recently, his interest is on the study of infectious diseases through fractional-order mathematical models with tools from optimization theory and fixed point theory.   

Dr. Izuchukwu’s research performance has earned him several awards: the S2A3 medal award (2017), Summa Cum Laude scholarship award (2017), prize for the best poster presenter at UKZN (2017), two top 10 most published postgraduate student awards (2018 & 2019), and the ERCIM postdoc fellowship award (2022). It has also attracted invitations from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany (2019), and the CIMPA school on Syzygies, from theory to applications in Brazil (2019).

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