Prof Meera K. Joseph

Research Group Leader

Department of Information and Communications Technology

Prof (Mrs.) Meera K. Joseph is currently working as a part-time lecturer at the Independent Institute of Education, South Africa and Adjunct Professor at Vaal University of Technology. She worked at the Milpark Business School as a DBA (doctoral) supervisor in 2021 and has registered doctoral student in 2022/2023.

She earlier worked as the HoD for the School of IT and Business at AIE for the Midrand/Cape Town Campuses till 2021 where she also lectured Python for Data Science Specialization and was involved in the development of the BSc. IT module. She also worked as the Associate Professor at the DFC, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technology, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Johannesburg (UJ) till the year 2018 and held various roles at UJ for 18 years.

Office: T206 

rene@vut.ac.za
016 950 9899

She is the Professional Member of the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (PMIITPSA) and Full Member of IEEE Computer Society (CS). She is currently the IEEE Computer Society SA Chapter chair, Senior Member IEEE and Senior Member, SAIEE. She received the degrees of DPhil. Engineering Management (ICT field), UJ in April 2014 (completed while working at UJ), Masters degree in Computer Applications in 1998 from Bangalore University, India and BSc (Physics and Mathematics sub.) from University of Kerala, India.

She has authored 75 research works and has around 22 years lecturing experience in the Computer Engineering / Information and Communication Technology field. Her multidisciplinary research interests are ICT4D (Information and Communication Technology for Development), smart grids, cloud computing, AI/ Machine learning for development, Computer Networks, femtocells, data analytics, ICT for renewable energy research, ICT for Power Engineering research, ICT for empowerment, data analytics, Blockchain in cybersecurity and the use of ICT in Engineering Education.  Her research profile is in the Google scholar link: https://scholar.google.co.za/citations?hl=en&user=Ce3jidsAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate