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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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 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 MoreClaude Formanek
Claude studied deep reinforcement learning and graph neural networks in his honours year and is now working on multi-agent RL.
Read MoreAnthony Sayster
Anthony is researching in the field of mathematics education, particularly focusing on the use of productive struggle in high school mathematics.
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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Justine 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...
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