article  // 30 Jul 2023

Distinguished Paper Award at FOIS2023 conference

Two UCT computer science academics, Assoc Prof Maria Keet and Dr Zola Mahlaza, Dr Zubeida Khan, and PhD student César Bernabé earned a Distinguished Paper Award at the 13th International Conference FOIS 2023.
article  // 04 Aug 2023

Blockchain solution to contested elections

Four UCT students walked away with R50 000 at the FinHub Hack Series I, after successfully pitching a blockchain voting solution to thwart the problem of fraudulent results arising from elections.
article  // 22 Apr 2024

Working to surmount language barriers

UCT’s Assoc Prof Maria Keet presented a paper at the 39th Symposium on Applied Computing on a novel modelling language, CoSMo, that aims to contribute towards a better and larger multilingual Wikipedia.
contact  // 09 Oct 2022

Jan Buys

MSc Stellenbosch, DPhil Oxon

Expertise: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, Large Language Models.

Office: Room 314, Computer Science Building
Telephone: +27 (0)21 21 650 7375
Email: jbuys@cs.uct.ac.za
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contact  // 07 Oct 2022

Hussein Suleman

MSc UDW, PhD VPI&SU

Expertise: Digital libraries, information retrieval, educational technology, ICT for development, cultural heritage preservation

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Rob Simmonds

Bsc(Hons), PhD Mathematical Sciences Bath UK

Expertise: Distributed Systems, Scientific Computing, Cloud Computing, Web Based Applications, Parallel Discrete Event Simulation, Parallel Computing, Remote Visualization.

Office: Room 317.2, Computer Science Building
Telephone: +27 (0)21 650 5108
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contact  // 09 Oct 2022

Aslam Safla

BSc(Hons) Natal, MSc UKZN

Senior Student Advisor

Expertise: Computer Science Education, Introductory Programming

Office: Room 317.2, Computer Science Building
Telephone: +27 (0)21 650 2664
Email: aslam@cs.uct.ac.za

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