Engineering Swarms and Beyond
Dr. Sanza Kazadi is a graduate of the California Institute of Technology where he earned is BS in Physics and his PhD in Computation and Neural Systems. He is currently the Director of Student Inquiry and Research at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy and the head of the Entrochemical Systems and the Swarm Engineering Laboratories at IMSA. Dr. Kazadi is the author of more than sixty papers on topics primarily from the areas of swarm engineering, evolutionary computation, entrochemical systems, and mechanical engineering. He holds three patents for technologies related to renewable energy, with two additional patents currently pending. Prior to joining IMSA, Dr. Kazadi was the Founder and President of the Jisan Research Institute where he worked for twenty years. He was a co-founder of Wakunga Technologies, a technology management company out of Alhambra, CA and Corlume Inc., a renewable energy company out of Irvine, CA. He is passionate about research in swarm engineering and renewable energy and also about education, having devoted much of his professional life to developing an educational model that guides young people through experiential learning doing real science research, enabling them to make informed decisions about future careers in STEM.