Stefan Streicher Britz
Stefan Britz is a lecturer in the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Cape Town, and will now stop referring to himself in the third-person. These days I predominantly teach postgraduate courses on linear algebra, multivariate analysis theory, supervised/statistical learning and exploratory data analysis. My passion for teaching has not subsided one bit as the years have flown by, and I am perpetually grateful to be in a profession where one gets to positively influence so many lives.
Through postgraduate supervision I have experienced exposure to a wide variety of problems, including machine learning applications to various ecological and environmental problems, agriculture, sports, finance, astronomy, education, insurance, forensics, speech recognition, genetics, and more, as well as fields such as Natural Language Processing, Agent-Based Modelling and Network Analysis. My current research focus is on applied network analysis.
Outside of academia, my main interests are cricket (watching), music (I’ve played drums for numerous bands over the years, currently just focused on Streicher), cricket (playing for Pinelands Cricket Club), Haedong Kumdo (in which I hold a second dan black belt), cricket (administration – vice-chairman of PCC), and just cricket in general.