Presentations

International conferences

Date Title Event Location Presentation Contribution
2025-07-07 Feature Engineering for Tennis Match Outcome Prediction DSSV 2025 Skukuza, South Africa Invited talk Presenting author
2019-07-02 Blended Learning Introductory Statistics - Lessons from Five Years of Application at the University of Cape Town in Context of a Socioeconomically Diverse Student Body 13th Annual International Conference on Mathematics & Statistics: Teaching, Theory & Applications Athens, Greece Contributed talk Presenting author
2016-05-23 A Blended Learning Approach to Teaching Introductory Statistics through Sakai Open Apereo Conference New York, US Invited talk Presenting author
2015-11-04 Teaching Introductory Statistics to 1400 students using online Lessons Sakai Virtual Conference Online Contributed talk Presenting author

Local conferences

Date Title Event Host Presentation Contribution
2025-11-28 Lacking confidence: The coverage, conservatism, and correction of simultaneous \(T^2\) confidence intervals SASA 2025 NWU (Vanderbijlpark) Contributed talk Presenting author
2025-11-26 Modelling Insurance Premiums for Risk Assessment Using Interpretable Machine Learning SASA 2025 NWU (Vanderbijlpark) Poster Co-author
2024-11-21 Network Analysis and Disruption Simulation of a South African CIT Criminal Network SASA 2024 UWC (Stellenbosch) Contributed talk Presenting author
2024-11-20 Automated analysis of penguin-borne videos using deep learning SASA 2024 UWC (Stellenbosch) Poster Co-author
2022-11-30 Feature Engineering for Tennis Match Outcome Prediction SASA 2022 SASA (George) Contributed talk Presenting author
2021-12-01 Monitoring and mapping the critically endangered Clanwilliam cedar using aerial imagery and deep learning SASA 2021 SU (Stellenbosch) Contributed talk Presenting author
2021-12-01 Automated quantification of hydraulic failure in plants using deep learning SASA 2021 SU (Stellenbosch) Contributed talk Co-author
2018-11-29 Matching a Bullet to a Gun: One-Shot Learning and Convolutional Siamese Neural Networks SASA 2018 UNISA (Florida) Contributed talk Presenting author
2014-10-29 On-line teaching of Statistics SASA 2014 RU (Makhanda) Invited talk Presenting author
2013-06-28 Effect of Prior Choice in Generalized-Gamma-t Hierarchical Model ISBASA 2013 RU (Makhanda) Contributed talk Presenting author
2012-11-07 A Hierarchical Bayesian Model: Combining The Generalized Gamma And Generalized t-Distributions SASA 2012 NMU (Gqeberha) Contributed talk Presenting author
2011-11-03 Application of GGam distribution to water data SASA 2011 CSIR (Pretoria) Contributed talk Presenting author
2011-11-02 Application of the Hungarian algorithm in baseball team selection and assignment SASA 2011 CSIR (Pretoria) Contributed talk Presenting author

Seminars and workshops

Date Title Event Location Presentation
2026-02-19 A Bouquet of Postgraduate (Stats) Research Projects StatsGeeks Students Society University of Cape Town Invited talk
2025-10-27 The KZN26: A CIT criminal network analysis Departmental seminar University of Cape Town Seminar
2023-08-25 Is gcForest-CS a viable alternative to Deep Learning for diseased cassava leaf image classification? Departmental seminar Stellenbosch University Seminar
2023-07-31 Is gcForest-CS a viable alternative to Deep Learning for diseased cassava leaf image classification? Departmental seminar University of Cape Town Seminar
2019-08-16 Computer vision applications: Cedar tree counting, GTA simulations and going ballistic(s) Departmental seminar Stellenbosch University Seminar
2018-10-15 Matching Bullets to Firearms with Siamese Convolutional Neural Networks: Literal One-Shot Learning Departmental seminar University of Cape Town Seminar
2017-02-15 ATLAS award winner: Teaching Introductory Statistics Using a Blended Mode of Instruction Apereo Teaching & Learning Call Online Webinar
2016-09-08 All Aboard the Analytics Train! High Performance Computing and Analytics Student Society University of Cape Town Invited talk
2012-03-02 Calculating Water Level Probabilities for the Gariep Dam UFS Actuarial & Energy Workshop University of the Free State Contributed talk
2011-07-27 Predicting Monthly Inflows Into the Gariep Dam Eskom Workshop Nelson Mandela University Contributed talk
2011-03-17 Predicting Monthly Inflows Into the Gariep Dam UFS Actuarial & Energy Workshop University of the Free State Contributed talk