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

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.

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

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

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

Researcher: Khanyisile Yolanda Ntsenge, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisors: Dr Constance Khupe and Prof. Rod Alence, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg In response to the threat of extinction of indigenous knowledge, there has been a growing number of people, a significant amount of whom are women, interested in the