Dr. Rendani Mbuvha is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Actuarial Science in the Department of Mathematics. Previously, he was a Google DeepMind Academic Fellow at Queen Mary University of London and an Associate Professor in Actuarial Science at the University of the Witwatersrand. He completed his PhD at the University of Johannesburg under the supervision of Professor Tshilidzi Marwala and Dr Ilyes Boulkaibet, concentrating on Shadow Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Methods within Bayesian Neural Networks. His research focuses on using machine learning approaches in risk management, with a particular focus on physical climate risk. He is also a co-founder of AfriClimate AI, a research community dedicated to using AI for climate resilience in Africa, and the author of "Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Methods in Machine Learning". Dr. Mbuvha is a fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and the Actuarial Society of South Africa.