Written by admin02/11/2024 Researcher: Katherine Bebington, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Prof. Rod Alence, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg The year 1994 marked the beginning of a new era in South Africa as the country became a democracy, stepping out of the international isolation that dogged the Apartheid government. The
Written by admin02/11/2024 Researcher: Nkateko Baloyi, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisors: Prof. Bruce Mellado and Dr Xifeng Ruan, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg The theory of Standard Model (SM) has successfully driven experiments and predictions since it was developed in 1975 and it has never been contradicted by experimental results.
Written by admin02/11/2024 Researcher: Rowan Lange, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisors: Prof. Anton van Wyk, Dr. Terence van Zyl Cement production is a multi-billion dollar industry, of which one of the main subprocesses, cement milling, is complex and non-linear. There is a need to model the fineness of particles exiting
Written by admin02/11/2024 Researcher: Perlate Diala, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Dr. Hairong Wang Loss of customers in telecommunication industries has become one of the major concerns in recent years. This is due to a very high of competition among industries and the customer acquisition costs, so it is of
Written by admin02/11/2024 Researcher: Theodore Cwere Gaelejwe, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Prof. Bruce Mellado The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates petabytes of data per second during each data taking period and has long term data storage in the order of exabytes. Sophisticated machine learning (ML) techniques are used at
Written by admin01/11/2024 Researcher: Wessel Bonnet, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisors: Elhadi Adam and Turgay Çelik, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg The project seeks to show that the accuracy with which Prosopis glandulosacan be mapped for the Griekwastadarea in the Northern Cape using satellite imagery is improved by including surrounding
Written by admin01/11/2024 Researcher: Miss Safiyyah Ismail, The University of the WitwatersrandSupervisor: Professor Rod Alence, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Nothing quite affects human behaviour as much as the internet. With a cloak of invisibility and anonymity in cyberspace, a new phenomenon known as cyberharassment has been created. It is
Written by admin01/11/2024 Researcher: Lindiwe Malobola, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Professor Bruce Mellado, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Present-day machine learning methods can be used to build very powerful models for difficult collider physics problems. In numerous applications, the models are often built using fully supervised machine learning methods
Written by admin01/11/2024 Researchers: Tshauambea Murendeni, University of VendaSupervisor: Ms Nothabo Ndebele, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Clustering is a method where information items are grouped to attain the objective of maximizing within cluster resemblance and dissimilarity of different clusters [1]. The kmeans algorithm is commonly used, simple and ease
Written by admin01/11/2024 Researcher: Nkateko Baloyi, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisors: Professor Bruce Mellado, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg The search for new Bosons implies that protons in the LHC collide at very high energies and high Luminosity. High luminosity increases the probability of discovering new particles be-yond the standard