Yasser Salah Eddine Bouchareb is a data scientist and a first-year Ph.D. student at INRS. His research explores the entanglement of deep learning and computer vision. His current work examines the applicability of employing machine-learning-based analysis to distinguish defect areas...
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St John Grimbly
St John is interested in areas related to general intelligence and emerging technologies. His honours work focused on model-based and causal reinforcement learning. His masters research is directed towards multi-agent reinforcement learning from the perspective of causally reasoning agents.
Read MoreRayhaan Perin
My name is Rayhaan Perin and I’m currently doing my MsC at UCT in applied nuclear physics focussing on Time-Of-Flight(TOF) PEPT. I am currently involved in the creation of a Monte-Carlo algorithm that describes a PET detector that will incorporate...
Read MoreMashudu Mokhithi
My research interests are in Mathematics Education in general. For my MSc project, I looked at how mindsets (student’s beliefs about their own intelligence) affect their academic performance in first-year math courses. Going forward, I would like to do research...
Read MoreEvgenii Rudakov
Evgenii works at the High-Performance Cognition group at the University of Helsinki. His background is in computer science with a focus on machine learning applications for biosignal analysis. Evgenii studies physiological signal processing and computational modeling of human behavior toward...
Read MoreClaude Formanek
Claude studied deep reinforcement learning and graph neural networks in his honours year and is now working on multi-agent RL.
Read MoreAsad Jeewa
Asad Jeewa is a lecturer in the department of Computer Science at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. His research lies at the intersection of multi-agent and multi-objective reinforcement learning where he is investigating how self-interested agents can maintain both personal and...
Read MoreAlyssa Amod
Alyssa's broad research interests focus on interdiscplinary research using neuroscientific knowledge to advance artificially intelligent systems. For her Master's work she looked at the effect of stress on human spatial navigation performance. Having spent a few years working with the...
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Ruach Slayen
Ruach is working on several projects dealing with the behavior of low-dimensional quantum systems in the presence of magnetic fields - from the quantum mechanics of Fullerenes to duality and bosonization in quantum field theory. He is also working part...
Read MoreJustine Tarrant
Justine Tarrant currently works at the School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand. Justine does research in Cosmology, Mathematical Physics and Theoretical Physics.
Read MoreEmma Platts
Emma's research focuses on fast radio bursts (FRBs) -- astrophysical transients -- and using various analysis techniques to explore the origin of the bursts, as well as the Universe around them. In her recent work, she applied kernel density estimation...
Read MoreAnthony Sayster
Anthony is researching in the field of mathematics education, particularly focusing on the use of productive struggle in high school mathematics.
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