Ben Akhigbe
Postdoctoral Fellow since 2021
Supervisor: Hussein Suleman and Melissa Densmore
Research Topic: User-centred modeling of User eXperience in IR evaluation within the Cognitive IR Context
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Mary-Jane Antia
PhD Fellow since 2020
Supervisor:
Michelle Kuttel
Research Topic: A Corpus-Based Method for Authoring Competency Questions in Ontology Engineering
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Johan Bontes
PhD Fellow since 2021
Supervisor: James Gain
Research Topic: High performance automated reasoning
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Sarah Dsane
PhD Fellow since 2019
Supervisor:
Melissa Densmore
Research Topic: Exploring Digital Interaction among Parents within the First Thousand Days in Bandwidth-Constrained communities
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David Laar
PhD Fellow since 2021
Supervisor:
Lisa Seymour
Research Topic: An Evolutionary Agile business process redesign approach
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Khanyisa Malufu
PhD Fellow since 2020
Supervisor:
Irwin Brown
Research Topic: User Choices of Digital Payment Methods with Multiplicity of Channels
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Francois Meyer
BSc and BSc Honours (Stellenbosch), Msc (Amsterdam)
Expertise: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning, Deep Learning
Office: Room 316, Computer Science Building
Email: fmeyer@cs.uct.ac.za
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Guidance Mthwazi
PhD Fellow since 2020
Supervisor:
Irwin Brown
Research Topic: The Influence of Electronic Governance on Public Service Delivery
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Toky Raboanary
PhD Fellow since 2019
Supervisor:
Maria Keet
Research Topic: Generating Answerable Questions from Ontologies
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Aderonke Sakpere
Current Affiliation: University of Ibadan
Member: 2013-2016Usability heuristics for fast crime data anonymization in resource-constrained contexts
Supervisor: Anne Kayem and James Gain Dissertation:Website: Aderonke Busayo Sakpere (google.com)
Aderonke is interested in collaborating on HCI and developmental projects that intersect industry and academia. She has previously worked in this role with industries such as Qhala/WikiMedia Foundation and Salesforce. For offer on this, please reach out to her via ab.sakpere@ui.edu or asakpere@mit.edu
Enock Tung'ande Mbewe
PhD Fellow since 2019
Supervisor:
Josiah Chavula
Research Topic: Cost-aware Internet Security Decision Model
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Safianu Omar
PhD Fellow since 2021
Supervisor: Jean-Paul van Belle
Research Topic: Adapting ICT initiatives in Crisis Response and Management
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Recent Publication:
Safianu, O., Van Belle, JP. (2023). Social Media Affordances for Disaster Management. In: Ndayizigamiye, P., Twinomurinzi, H., Kalema, B., Bwalya, K., Bembe, M. (eds) Digital-for-Development: Enabling Transformation, Inclusion and Sustainability Through ICTs. IDIA 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1774. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28472-4_9
Sarah Vuningoma
PhD Fellow since 2022
Supervisor:
Ulrike Rivett
Research Topic: Digital Technology inequality and socio-economic inclusions during COVID-19 Pandemic: crisis among refugees in South Africa
Tezira Wanyana
PhD Fellow since 2019
Supervisor:
Deshen Moodley
Research Topic: A Cognitive Agent Architecture for Knowledge Discovery and Evolution
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Frances Gillis Webber
PhD Fellow since 2020
Supervisor:
Tommie Meyer
Research Topic: Modelling Localised Conceptualisations and Annotations in a Multilingual OWL Ontology
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