Stephan Nel is a senior extra-ordinary lecturer in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Stellenbosch University. His research interests include descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics across various use cases such as computer vision, language modelling, graph-based link prediction, simulation, optical character recognition, neural style transfer, forecasting, meta-heuristics, evolutionary optimisation, and churn modelling, to name a few. He has lectured topics related to operations research, optimisation, and data science. Some of his research project collaborations include companies such as BMW (manufacturing), Capitec (banking), Herotel (telecommunication), Zutari (consulting), South African Forestry Company SOC Limited (SAFCOL), Skynamo (customer relationship management), and Sonik (securities trading), to name a few. He has supervised to completion (and is still currently supervising) a number of final-year BEng projects, MEng theses, and PhD dissertations. Stephan Is currently a research engineering at Spatialedge where he is a research and development lead. Some of his responsibilities include development of generative AI products, experimental design, and application of advanced analytics methods to new or ongoing projects and products.