Prospective Students
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Current Students and Fellows
Postdoctoral Fellows
Name Year Project Title Abayomi Agbeyangi 2022- Investigating Digital Repository Software System Architectures for Low-Resource Environments Bernard Akhigbe 2021- User-centred Modelling and Information Retrieval System Evaluation in the Context of Cognitive IR View
Masters and PhD Students
Name Year Degree Title Fatsani Phiri 2022- MSc Investigating the use of machine learning to augment correctness reports from automated program marking systems Aslam Safla 2022- PhD TBD Gavin Asary 2022- MPhil Investigating the feasibility of utilising the DSPACE digital repository software toolkit in an industrial environment Ryan le Roux 2022- MPhil Investigating user preferences for the presentation of Metadata quality and duplication Tinashe Makwande 2022- MPhil Research proposal Investigating ICT factors that influence ICT professionals to abandon transactions on South African e-commerce platforms Tumelo Makgaka 2021- MSc Investigating low-resource personal digital archives Mustafa Ali 2021- MSc Investigating the feasibility of a low-resource Digital Library Management System Julian Nkuna 2021- MSc Investigating the impact of language models on sentiment analysis when using twitter streams to monitor governance in South Africa Jivashi Nagar 2016- PhD Investigating Time of Search as a Feature to Improve the Personalization of Information Retrieval Systems
Honours Students
Names Year Project
Past Students and Fellows
Masters and PhD Students
Honours Students
Undergraduate Research Students
Name Year Details Zwelisha Zulu 2020 CSC2005Z research project Jane Imrie 2020 CSC2005Z research project Kelvin Meyer 2018 CSC2005Z research project Mantombi Manqele 2018 CSC2005Z research project Meluleke Dube 2018 CSC2005Z research project Nyasha Katemauswa 2017 CSC2005Z research project Menzi Motsa 2013 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Suzy-Mae Ogunseitan 2013 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Calvin Brizzi 2013 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Natalie Barker 2012 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Menzi Motsa 2012 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Christopher Warnes 2012 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Joanne Marston 2011 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Katherine Rix 2011 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Deon Takpuie 2011 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Jessica Davies 2011 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Bhavana Harilal 2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Ridho Jeftha 2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Tatenda Shumba 2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Hatitye Chindove 2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Rizmari Versveld 2009 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Azhar Desai 2009 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Joel da Costa 2009 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Yue Mao 2009 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Gregory Wilsenach 2009 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience
Research Assistants
Name Year Details Bernard Akhigbe 2021-2022 HEAP metadata/photography/displays Rob MacCallum 2021-2022 HEAP metadata/photography/displays Hendrik Vermeulen 2019-2020 Game generator prototype Lilitha Potye 2017 Four discussion forums Imaculate Mosha 2016 Test-driven development Norman Pilusa 2016 isiZulu spell checker OO plugin Imaculate Mosha 2016 Orchestration workbench Michael Kyeyune 2015 isiXhosa baseline search engine Benjamin Meier 2014-2015 Global ETD Search Justin Cossutti 2014-2015 Global ETD Search Lighton Phiri 2013 ETD Portal Kyle Williams 2012 Server maintenance and paper writng coordination Michael Jackson 2011 An End-to-End Solution for Complex Open Educational Resources Michael Jackson 2011-2012 ETD Portal Mushashu Lumpa 2011-2012 DL website, clusters Lawrence Webley 2009-2011 ETD Portal Ridho Jeftha 2011 Bleek and Lloyd video Tatenda Chipeperekwa 2009-2010 ETD Portal Alexander van Olst 2009 ETD Portal Takudzwa Mabande 2008 DSpace packaging Nils Koerber 2007 NDLTD website James Mutuku 2005 Lawspace Henry Brown 2004 NDLTD website