Supervision

Master’s by dissertation

Student Title Role Start Graduated
1 Tagen de Wet Detecting Prey-Capture Events in Animal-Borne Videos using Deep Neural Networks Main supervisor 2023 2026 [intended]

Master’s by coursework minor dissertations

Student Title Role Start Graduated
1 Don Gwese Modeling the Maturing Brain: The Influence of Electrophysiological Features on Learning in Biophysical RNNs Main supervisor 2026 2027 [intended]
2 Nabil Patel Empirical Scaling Laws for QLoRA Fine-Tuning in Specialised Multiclass Text Classification: A Transfer Pricing Benchmarking Case Study Main supervisor 2026 2027 [intended]
3 Tsapang Mashego Modeling Insurance Premiums for Risk Assessment using Interpretable Machine Learning Main supervisor 2025 2026 [intended]
4 Kelly-Robin Singh Feature Engineering for a Gene-Specific Machine Learning Approach to Variant Annotation of PCDH19-Related Epilepsy Main supervisor 2024 2026 [intended]
5 Tanweer Nujjoo Forecasting Spatial-Temporal Wildfire Susceptibility on the Table Mountain National Park Co-supervisor 2024 2026 [intended]
6 Puja Pande Shining Light on Rooftop Solar Adoption: Using Agent-Based Modelling to Investigate Key Drivers in Cape Town Main supervisor 2024 2026
7 David Snaddon The Structure and Evolution of the African Air Transport Network Co-supervisor 2024 2025
8 Jonathan Harrison Coastal Water Level Prediction: A Comparative Study of Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques for Time Series Forecasting Co-supervisor 2024 2025
9 Daniel Charters Virtual Try-on with Garment Extraction using Generative Adversarial Networks Main supervisor 2023 2024
10 Revesa Moodley Modelling Highly Imbalanced Credit Card Fraud Detection Data using Statistical Learning Main supervisor 2022 2023
11 Liam Carew Application of CNN-gcForestCS to Cassava Leaf Image Classification Main supervisor 2022 2023
12 Victoria Pedlar isiZulu Text Generation: Techniques for a Morphologically Rich and Low Resourced Language Main supervisor 2022 2023
13 Yevashan Perumal Applying Imputation and Statistical Learning to Predict Gamma-glutamyl Transferase in Underwriting Data Main supervisor 2022 2023
14 Nonhlanhla Luphade Automated classification of Hainan Gibbon call types using deep learning Co-supervisor 2021 2023
15 Arlton Gilbert Modelling First Innings Totals in T20 Cricket: Applications in the Indian Premier League Main supervisor 2021 2023
16 Charles Houston Adapting Large-Scale Speaker-Independent Automatic Speech Recognition to Dysarthric Speech Main supervisor 2021 2022
17 Brenden Taylor Small-Scale Distributed Machine Learning in R Main supervisor 2021 2022
18 Deirdre van den Heever Applications of Machine Learning in Apple Crop Yield Prediction Main supervisor 2020 2021
19 Tristan Naidoo Automated quantification of plant water transport network failure using deep learning Main supervisor 2020 2021
20 Vaughn Saben Vehicle Accident Feature Extraction from a Drone-based Video Feed Main supervisor 2019 2022
21 Blessings Hadebe Monitoring and mapping the critically endangered Clanwilliam cedar using remote sensing and deep learning Main supervisor 2019 2021
22 Dean Robertson Named Entity Recognition with Recurrent Neural Networks Main supervisor 2019 2021
23 Devon Stone An Exploration of Alternative Features in Micro-Finance Loan Default Prediction Models Main supervisor 2019 2020

Honours research projects

Student Title Year
1 Laylaa Jorge-Abrahams & Khethani Mugeri Comparing Louvain and Leiden community detection performance across network topologies 2025
2 Muneerah Harris Investigating the Effects of Resampling on Highly Imbalanced Data 2024
3 Billy Mbuyazi & Sanana Mwanawina Predictive Modelling For Early Identification of Students at Risk of Delayed Graduation 2023
4 Maxine Norrie & Daniel Singer Engineering Features for Tennis Match Outcome Prediction in a Statistical Learning Framework 2021
5 Bridgette Mgidi & Alex Urban Feature Engineering and Supervised Machine Learning Methods in the Prediction of Professional Men's Tennis Matches 2020
6 Adam Bresler & Luka Elliott Engineering Features for Tennis Match Outcome Prediction in a Statistical Learning Framework 2020
7 Jordan Lambis & Gianstelvio Radesich Simulation of a One-Day International Cricket Fixture 2018
8 Sean Soutar & Fabio Fehr Text Content Classification on News Articles 2018
9 James Lloyd The Classification of Galaxy Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks 2017
10 Peter Ivey Investigating the Effect of Batting Proficiency when Predicting the Winner of Curtailed T20I Cricket Matches 2017
11 Therveshan Moodley Incorporating Player Ability in a T20I Predictive Model 2016