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

Lecturer

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: 2013-2016 Supervisor: Anne Kayem and James Gain Dissertation: Usability heuristics for fast crime data anonymization in resource-constrained contexts

Website: Aderonke Busayo Sakpere (google.com)

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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

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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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