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Postgraduate Paper 2024
Published paper
Published paper
First Prize
Title: “A modified EM-type algorithm to estimate semi-parametric mixtures of non-parametric regressions”
Author: Sphiwe Skhosane (UP)
Supervisor: Prof. Sollie Millard
Co-author: Prof Frans Kanfer
Unpublished papers
Unpublished papers
First Prize
Title: “bipl5: An R Package for Reactive Calibrated Axes Biplots”
Author: Ruan Buys (US)
Supervisor: Prof Sugnet Lubbe
Co-authors: Dr C.J. van der Merwe and Ms D. Sandilands
Second Prize
Title: “SEASONAL CATCHMENT AREAS USING AN ATTRIBUTE BASED FUZZY LATTICE DATA STRUCTURE”
Seasonal Catchment Areas using an Attribute Based Fuzzy Lattice Data Structure
Author: Michelle de Klerk (UP)
Supervisor: Prof Inger Fabris-Rotelli
Third Prize
Title: “ENHANCED POINT PATTERN ANALYSIS ON NONCONVEX SPATIAL DOMAINS”
Author: Kabelo Mahloromela (UP)
Supervisor: Prof Inger Fabris-Rotelli
Honours Project 2024
First Prize
“Analysing Spatiotemporal Water Quality Data Using Generalised Additive Models”
Mr Aaron Naidu (UKZN) – Individual Project
Second Prize
“Gaussian Processes with Applications in Bayesian Optimization”
Mr Benjamin Chiddy (UCT) – Individual Project
Third Prize
“Spatio-Temporal Modelling of Covid-19 using Waste Water Data in the Presence of Spatially Misaligned Data”
Mr Miguel Torres (WITS) – Individual Project
Young Statisticians
Poster competition at SASA 2024
Poster competition at SASA 2024
First prize
Edward Baleni, Autonomous anomaly detection of orchard tree crown delineations.
Oral presentations at SASA 2024
Oral presentations at SASA 2024
Joint First
Alexander Kelbrick, Virtual screening of plants and compounds against various disease targets using machine learning.
Claudio Jardim, Modelling toroidal data for representation and analysis of protein dihedral angles.
Second place
Gandhi Jafta: Stakeholder focused explainable artificial intelligence.
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