Edward is a PhD student in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at the University of Windsor, supervised by Professor Azab. He holds an ABE (Association of Business Executives) UK diploma in business management (2014), a bachelor’s degree in Technical Education from the University of Malawi, Polytechnic (2015), a master’s degree in industrial engineering from Hunan University, China (2019), and recently completed an online master’s in computer applications from Amity University, India (2024). Edward has 5 years experience working as a Lecturer at the Malawi University of Science and Technology. There, he contributed to projects funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) and the World Bank, taught various courses, and helped coordinate the then newly established bachelor’s program in Manufacturing Engineering, guiding its first cohort to graduation.