Rendani Mbuvha was born in Venda (Limpopo, South Africa) is a lecturer in Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Witwatersrand. He is a qualified Actuary and a holder of the Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary designation. He holds a BSc with Honours in Actuarial Science and Statistics from the University of Cape Town and an MSc in Machine Learning from KTH, Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. He is a recipient of the Google Ph.D. fellowship in machine learning which supported his Ph.D. research at the University of Johannesburg.