Postgraduate students
Discover the innovative and cutting-edge research being conducted by our current Master's and Doctoral candidates.
Doctoral students
Our PhD candidates are conducting original research that advances the frontiers of computer science.
Adekunle Adekoya
Supervisor
Andries Engelbrecht
Research topic
Multi-Objective Optimization for Dynamic Incremental Machine Learning Algorithms
Winston Anderson
Supervisor
Lynette van Zijl
Research topic
The Role of Multilingual Semantic and Semantic Web Technologies in Automated Assessment
Willem Bester
Supervisor
Brink van der Merwe
Research topic
The pathology, amelioration and cure of catastrophic backtracking in extended regular expressions
Dave Bockus
Supervisor
Andries Engelbrecht
Research topic
High Dimensional Fitness Landscape Analysis
Dirko Coetsee
Supervisor
McElory Hoffmann, Steve Kroon
Research topic
Automated spreadsheet integration
Jordan Masakuna
Supervisor
Dr Simukai Utete, Steve Kroon
Research topic
Robot games with randomisation
Taivvo Omomule
Supervisor
Andries Engelbrecht
Research topic
Mixtures of Heterogeneous Experts
Moeketsi Raselimo
Supervisor
Bernd Fischer
Research topic
Fault Localization and Repair for Grammarware
Amani Saad
Supervisor
Andries Engelbrecht
Research topic
Differential Evolution and optimal Population Sizes
Master's students
Our Master's candidates are developing expertise through focused research projects across diverse areas of computer science.
Albertus Aribeb
Supervisor
Andries Engelbrecht
Research topic
Time Series Data Clustering
David Baker Effendi
Supervisor
Brink van der Merwe, Willem Visser
Research topic
Applications of Graph Technology in Spatio-Temporal Data Modelling, Program Analysis and Natural Language Processing
Chelsea Barraball
Supervisor
Andries Engelbrecht
Research topic
Co-Evolutionary Particle Swarm Optimization in Dynamic Environments
Burger Becker
Supervisor
Trienko Grobler
Research topic
Classification of Radio Galaxies
Neil Burger
Supervisor
Trienko Grobler, Waldo Kleynhans
Research topic
Trajectory Mining and Prediction Algorithms for Vessels using AIS Data
Rohan Chhipa
Supervisor
Andries Engelbrecht
Research topic
Community Detection in Social Networks using Set-based Particle Swarm
Heinrich Cilliers
Supervisor
Andries Engelbrecht
Research topic
Adaptive Gaussian Mixture Models
Chris Coetzee
Supervisor
Willem Bester, Bernd Fischer
Research topic
Application of static binary instrumentation to recovering data structures and their types
Andrew Collett
Supervisor
Brink van der Merwe, Willem Visser
Research topic
Software Stack Architectures and their Performance
Jordan Daubinet
Supervisor
Andries Engelbrecht
Research topic
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Financial Trading
Nicole Du Toit
Supervisor
Cornelia Inggs
Research topic
Linearization Checking of Concurrent Non-blocking Data Structures
Kyle Erwin
Supervisor
Andries Engelbrecht
Research topic
Set-base PSO for Portfolio Optimization
Ignazio Ferreira
Supervisor
Andries Engelbrecht
Research topic
Neural Network Ensembles and Concept Drift
Manfred Habeck
Supervisor
Trienko Grobler, Lynette van Zijl / Jaco Geldenhuys
Research topic
Box-repetition Free Words
Jason Jackson
Supervisor
Trienko Grobler, Danie Ludick
Research topic
Interferometry Imaging and Calibration Artefacts
Ryan Lang
Supervisor
Andries Engelbrecht
Research topic
Landscape-aware Hyper-heuristics
Fidelis Mnkandla
Supervisor
Andries Engelbrecht
Research topic
Training support vector machines under the presence of concept drift using particle swarm optimization
Zhunaid Mohamed
Supervisor
Willem Visser
Research topic
Interpreting and explaining Rural Networks
Werner Mostert
Supervisor
Andries Engelbrecht
Research topic
Feature Selection Fitness Landscape Analysis
Muhammed Rahman
Supervisor
Andries Engelbrecht
Research topic
Genetic Programming to Induce Decision Trees in Dynamic Environments
Cian Steenkamp
Supervisor
Andries Engelbrecht
Research topic
Multi-Guide Particle Swarm Optimization for Many-Objective Optimization Problems
Charl Steyl
Supervisor
McElory Hoffmann, Trienko Grobler
Research topic
Deep Learning Framework to Predictive Maintenance
Benjamin Strelitz
Supervisor
Andries Engelbrecht
Research topic
Constrained multi-modal optimization using particle swarm optimization
Stefan Strydom
Supervisor
Brink van der Merwe
Research topic
Automatic assignment of diagnosis codes to free-form text medical notes
Aksel Thele
Supervisor
Andries Engelbrecht
Research topic
Honey Bee Optimization for Dynamic Environments
Elan van Biljon
Supervisor
Steve Kroon
Research topic
Initialisation of Noise-Regularised Neural Networks
Phillip van Heerden
Supervisor
Willem Visser, Bernd Fischer
Research topic
Automatic Input Language Learning with Symbolic Methods
Steyn van Litsenborgh
Supervisor
Brink van der Merwe
Research topic
Learning Practical Regular Expressions