Dr. Happy Sithole is the Center Manager of National Integrated Cyberinfrastructure in South Africa. Prior to this, he worked as Senior Process Engineer at PBMR, Research Scientist at De Beers Consolidated Mines and Sebior Lecturer at University of Limpopo. Dr. Sithole is a Chair of NITheCS and Advisory Board Memmber of the Center for Nuclear Safety (CNSS). He also sits on the Steering Committees of various HPC Meetings in USA, Germany, Russia and Poland. He was the Chairperson of the ICT Committee of the National Library Board.

Dr. Sithole has published a numnber of peer reviewed papers in materials science and High Performance Computing.