Research

See my research over the years. Click on the heading to go to the specific page. I am currently at the University of Pretoria with an affiliation with the CSIR 🙂

Research @ University of Pretoria

I am at the University of Pretoria as the ABSA Chair of Data Science and Senior Lecturer. This page keeps track of work my group and myself are working on. Data Science for Social Impact [DSFSI] We now have a website. Go to https://dsfsi.github.io...

Research @CSIR

Currently I am at the CSIR, focused on Data Science. I lead a Data Science team. In general, I am interested in topics within a wide range of application areas. With our students looking at Anomaly Detection, Social Media mining and other topics connected...

Interns and Vac-Students at CSIR MDS Data Science

We have a number of interns that have come through our doors. Hire them 😀 2015/2016 LeeAnne Masilela (Wits) Thandile Xiphu (UCT) Yanga Sisilana(NMMU) Ofentswe Lebogo (UL) Jessica Nemasisi (UniVen) Gary Bezeidenhout (Wits),...

Research @Rutgers

2009-2015 I was interested in how we evaluate Reinforcement Learning algorithms and challenges using pre-collected/batch data. You can follow some of my work below. I also keep track of a lot of work that is concerned with "Data Science". So you will ...

Research @Wits

2007-2009 Publications V.N. Marivate, V. F. Nelwamondo, T. Marwala, "Investigation into the use of Autoencoder Neural Networks, Principal Component Analysis and Support Vector Regression in estimating missing HIV data", Proceedings of the 17th...

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