Intrusion Detection reliability in Software-Defined Community Wireless Networks

Network Security: Employing ML/DL Techniques to Design Efficient IDS for CWNs

By: Emmanuel Ackerson

Supervised By: Josiah Chavula

Community Wireless Networks (CWNs) offer cost-effective internet access to remote and underserved regions where traditional Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are unwilling or unable to operate. These networks, typically built with low-grade hardware and...

CS PhD

2025 Computer Science Honors Generative AI Applied to Student Guide (GAISG) Project

GAISG

By: Angelo Yang, Nova Adams-Duma, Daanyaal Ballim

Supervised By: Gary Stewart

The Generative AI Applied to Student Guide (GAISG) project reimagines UCT’s “Science is Tough: But So Are You” student guide as an interactive, multimodal learning platform. Traditional PDF-based guides often fail to engage students, limiting...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

3DHAR-AI

Human Activity Recognition and Prediction using Deep Neural Networks

By: Kishalan Pather, Andrew Erasmus, Temi Aina

Supervised By: Deshen Moodley

The growing field of HAR sees many applications from remote health monitoring for the elderly to smart homes that adapt to our daily routines. In our work, we investigated the performance of three state-of-the-art spatio-temporal graph neural networks...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

A Performance and Resilience Analysis of SANReN

A Spectral and Centrality Metric Framework for Resilient Network Topology Design and Analysis

By: Kerry-Lynn Whyte, Nicolas Wise, Alex White

Supervised By: Josiah Chavula, Michelle Kuttel

The South African National Research and Education Network (SANReN) provides the high-speed connectivity required for research collaboration and education but SANReN faces challenges related to rising demand, congestion, and vulnerability to node and edge...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

A Prescriptive Framework for Designing Personalized Learning to Improve Learning Experiences in Open Distance Learning: The Context of African Higher Education

By: Godfrey Haonga

Supervised By: Lisa Seymour

Background to the Study: Personalized Learning (PL) has emerged as a transformative approach in education, emphasizing the individualization of learning experiences to enhance student outcomes. While PL has gained momentum in education settings, its...

IS PhD

Accurate Modelling and Effective Visualization of Carbohydrate Conformation

By: Andre Toerien, Aidan Ravenscroft

Supervised By: Michelle Kuttel, Nicholas Yerolemou

Carbohydrates play critical roles in biological processes, and their interactions depend on their 3D shapes, or conformations. Understanding these conformations, through computer modelling and visualization, is therefore key to modern drug and vaccine...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

Adapter-based Debiasing of Pre-trained Speech Recognition Models for Low Resource languages

By: Claytone Sikasote

Supervised By: Hussein Suleman, Jan Buys

Fine-tuning multilingual pre-trained speech models for automatic speech recognition (ASR) has led to improved recognition accuracy for many languages, including low-resourced languages (LRLs). However, studies have shown that these models exhibit...

CS PhD

Agility - Strategic resource allocation and workload visibility for consulting teams

By: Ciaran Formby, Naledi Tshapi, Luyanda Ndlovu, Ashe-Shaana Andzenge

Supervised By: Caleb Tshinowa, Zainab Ruhwanya, Walter Uys

The Problem Consulting firms struggle to manage their people across multiple projects. Right now, most teams use Airtable spreadsheets and Jira, which creates a mess: No real-time view of who's available Endless email chains just to approve simple...

IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project

AI Literacy for Learners from Underserved Communities: Co-designing with Educators and Learners in Youth Organisation within South Africa

By: Rachel Oluwatuyi

Supervised By: Melissa Densmore

As the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to advance at an unprecedented pace, shaping individuals and societies, young learners are growing up in environments increasingly influenced by intelligent systems. This has prompted the...

CS PhD

AI Share Trader

By: Kabelo Mbayi, Siyanda Makhathini, Saul Chipwayambokoma

Supervised By: Deshen Moodley

Traditional deep learning models for stock forecasting often overlook the complex interdependencies between financial assets. This study investigates the efficacy of Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks (ST-GNNs) for stock prediction on the Johannesburg...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

AMPLIFY

Location Based Marketing

By: Aadil Asmal, Matt Schramm, Kevin Shoba, Snethemba Mchunu

Supervised By: Elsje Scott

THE FUTURE OF MARKETING STARTS NOWTraditional Marketing Methods such as billboard, video and radio advertising has gradually seen a decrease in efficacy and increase in costs. The current advertising trend is through Affiliate, Influencer and Peer to...

IS Hons Systems Development Project

BabyLMs for Sample-Efficient Language Modelling of Ancient Greek

Investigating the suitability of BabyLM architectures for language modelling in the low-resource context of Ancient Greek.

By: Dimitri Dalakas, Stelio Dalakas, Kimon Christelis

Supervised By: Francois Meyer

Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of Natural Language Understanding tasks in recent years. This success has relied on vast amounts of training data, which are not readily available for...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

Bee Grateful

Harnessing AI to Transform Hive Management Across Africa

By: BRIAN MUKUDZAVU, Joshua Willoughby, Mridula Kumar, Erin Duffy

Supervised By: Elsje Scott

Bee Grateful is a mobile-first application designed to assist with hive management for beekeepers across Africa. Developed in partnership with LithaFlora African Botanicals, this solution addresses critical challenges in the beekeeping industry,...

IS Hons Systems Development Project

Bee Grateful Initiative

By: Zayn Toefy, Sisipho Manitshana, Muhammad Gamiet, Sithabiso Nzuza

Supervised By: Kian Joubert

Currently, the world sees bees as a pest at best, or an enemy at worst. The loss of love for nature’s most important creatures is felt and will negatively impact our future. The last bastion for them are those who work and care for them, the beekeeping...

IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project

BioFilm Creation Simulation

By: Joshua Murray, Brad Scott, Ethan Gibbons

Supervised By: Michelle Kuttel

Biofilms form when free-floating microorganisms attach to a surface and begin to produce extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). This sticky matrix of polysaccharides, proteins, and nucleic acids helps cells adhere to one another and to the surface,...

CS3 Capstone Project

BlockBike

An eBike Sharing Platform

By: Rushnie Rademeyer, Mulalo Rasivhaga, Sandile Nkosi, Azile Dingalubala

Supervised By: Elsje Scott

The BlockBike project is a technology-driven initiative developed in collaboration with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to explore the practical use of Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) in a real-world context. The project addresses...

IS Hons Systems Development Project

Breaking the Cycle: Rethinking Learning Management Systems Adoption in African Universities

By: Folasade Adedeji

Supervised By: Hussein Suleman

African universities face ongoing challenges in adoption and usage of Learning Management Systems (LMS) due to structural neglect and generic platform designs that overlook local realities such as limited internet and unequal access. This study addresses...

CS Post-doctoral Research

ByteSized

By: Aaliyah van Graan, Elizabeth Mehl, Tadiwa Chipara, Khaya Mthethwa

The ByteSized project addresses a fragmented, manager-reliant onboarding by creating a centralised, AI-forward platform that streamlines employee integration and knowledge access. At its core is Digit, an AI-powered chatbot, that uses a hybrid framework...

IS Hons Systems Development Project

CarbPred

Using machine learning to predict nuclear magnetic resonance spectra for carbohydrates via graph neural networks

By: Channing Bellamy, Unays Bhad, Matthew Dean

Supervised By: Michelle Kuttel, Jan Buys

Carbohydrates are complex molecules, critical to drug and vaccine development. Their study often involves the analysis of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra, which are challenging to interpret, even for experts. We build upon prior work, GeqShift,...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

Ciovita | Automated, AI-Driven Return Management System

Redefining the return experience through intelligence and automation.

By: Qiraan Christians, Tim Gultig, Glen Okech, Onthatile Mabe

Supervised By: Dirk Snyman

The Ciovita Integrated Returns System is a full-stack web application designed to streamline and modernize the product returns workflow for Ciovita, a cycling apparel company. The primary business requirement was to replace a manual, inefficient returns...

IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project

CLARITY - Confluence and Jira AI Resource and Insights Tool

AI Enhanced PM Tool For Jira and Confluence

By: Suyant Maharaj, Zidan Patel, Kai Trentini, Simamkele Ndlumbini

The CLARITY project addresses the growing need at impact.com to streamline project management tasks in Jira and Confluence. Current workflows for meeting transcription, ticket generation, and bug triaging are manual, time-consuming, and prone to...

IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project

Computational modeling of bacterial capsular polysaccharide

How high performance computing informs vaccine design

By: Nicholas Yerolemou

Supervised By: Michelle Kuttel, Neil Ravenscroft, Nicole Richardson

Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae) is a bacterial pathogen and a frequent cause of disease in humans. Developing vaccines against S. pneumoniae requires a deep understanding of the bacterial capsular polysaccharide, a sugar that surrounds the...

CS PhD

Cross-Lingual Adaptation for Named Entity Recognition in Runyankore

By: PROSPER ARINEITWE ASIIMWE

Supervised By: Jan Buys, Francois Meyer

Runyankore, a Bantu language spoken by millions in Uganda, remains critically underrepresented in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Prior to this study, no publicly accessible dataset existed for Named Entity Recognition (NER) in Runyankore, despite the...

CS Masters in AI

Data Driven Control

Reinforcement Learning versus Classical control for Control Systems

By: Ben Ruijsch van Dugteren, Nathan Wells, Nicholas Cristaudo

Supervised By: Krupa Prag

This study examines the application of deep reinforcement learning to data-driven control and benchmarks it against classical proportional–integral–derivative control. Two system classes are considered: mechanical systems (inverted pendulum and...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

deepEEG

Deep Learning for Infant-Brain EEG Modelling

By: Tziyona Cohen, Caleb Bessit

Supervised By: Francois Meyer, Jonathan Shock

Electroencephalography (EEG) measures electrical brain activity and is a common tool for monitoring neurodevelopment and diagnosing brain disorders. However, analysing EEG data is challenging due to its complex interpretability and inter-subject...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

Designing Realistic Defeasible Ontologies

By: Victoria Chama

Supervised By: Tommie Meyer, Giovanni Casini

Ontologies play a crucial role in knowledge representation and automated reasoning on the web, defining concepts and relationships within domains. However, the ontology community lacks effective tools for expressing defeasibility, while the reasoning...

CS PhD

Discover Fitness: AI-Powered Fitness Generator

Discover YOUR fitness

By: Kian Joubert, Souvahn Naicker, Mahlatse Malope, Lusanele Goqoza

Discover Fitness is an AI-powered mobile application developed in collaboration with Discovery Ltd to transform how users approach health and fitness. The app generates personalised running and swimming workout plans using user health data, preferences,...

Discovery's Data Access Platform

Bridging Data Accessibility and Compliance in One Platform

By: Nomvelo Tembe, Thomas Davis, Asanda Xaba, Zanele Ndlovu

Supervised By: Dirk Snyman, Lusanele Goqoza

The Discovery Data Access Platform project was initiated to address the growing need for a secure, centralized and user-friendly solution for managing data. The key business requirements were to simplify data access across departments, ensure consistency...

IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project

Distributed Collaboration for Visual Analytics

Investigating Enhanced Collaboration in an Astronomy Tool

By: Sabiha Shaikh

Supervised By: Robert Simmonds, Angus Comrie

The need for effective collaboration tools in research is growing as scientific data becomes larger and more complex. This project aims to enhance the collaborative capabilities of the Cube Analysis and Rendering Tool for Astronomy (CARTA). CARTA is a...

CS Masters by Dissertation

Dungeons and Developers

Evaluating Real-Time Competitive Game-based Learning in Introductory Computer Science

By: Mahir Moodaley, Kai Connock, Ibrahim Abdou

Supervised By: Gary Stewart

Many first-year students, especially those with no previous experience, have difficulties learning and understanding Computer Science. This is due to a variety of factors including lack of engagement and low motivation. Students who have difficulty with...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

Emotion Elicitation in VR

How sensory and narrative design shape curiosity and anger.

By: Liza Siurina

Supervised By: James Gain, Gosia Lipinska

Most Virtual Reality (VR) research on emotion elicitation focuses on high-arousal states like fear or joy, often overlooking emotions such as curiosity, anger, which are essential for exploration, motivation, and social connection. This study introduces...

CS PhD

Enhancing Fault Detection in Software Defined Network-based Community Wireless Networks

By: Takondwa Chitheka

Supervised By: Josiah Chavula

Network performance management is essential for ensuring that computer networks operate optimally and for proactively identi- fying faults. Several network managementtools, operating both passively and actively, are used to provide operational status to...

CS Masters by Dissertation

Entertainment.FM CRM

Your all in one centralized customer management platform!

By: Ghadijah Kippie, Anelisa Hlalukana, Aaliyah Adams, Jumana Shah

Entertainment.FM currently manages clients and accounts across disconnected tools like spreadsheets, documents, and Microsoft To Do. This fragmented system leads to delayed follow-ups, lost opportunities, and reduced productivity. Our custom CRM...

IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project

Evaluating Large Language Models for Multilevel Biomedical Text Simplification

By: Nomonde Khalo

Supervised By: Jan Buys

Biomedical articles are often characterized by structural and technical complexity, making them inaccessible to non-expert readers. Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in the task of biomedical text simplification, but existing techniques...

CS PhD

Evolutionary Methods in Collective Herding Systems

By: Emily Raine, Naheed Khan

Supervised By: Geoff Nitschke

This project extended a 2D sheep-herding multi-agent system, where dog agents herd sheep into a target zone. We investigated the effectiveness of hybrid evolutionary methods in dynamic environments and compared the performance of agents with fixed versus...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

EXTRC

By: Julia Cotterrell, Nevaniah Gounden, Jethro Dunn

Supervised By: Tommie Meyer

This project explores how defeasible reasoning, a form of non-monotonic logic, can be extended and made more interpretable beyond Rational Closure (RC). The optimisation of RC was combined with natural language processing for knowledge base (KB) creation...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Low-Resource Languages

By: Mitchell Johnson, Dineo Chiloane, Corey Webb

Supervised By: Jan Buys

Most Large Language Models (LLMs) have been trained either on English text only or on text from multiple languages, but with a severe imbalance between data from different languages due to orders of magnitude differences in available web text per...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

FineGuard

Fine-grained authorisation system with a Policy Engine Sidecar

By: Boithaopo Mokgatsi, Rorisang Pitso, Andiswa Shange, ANELE MBELE

FineGuard (Fine-Grained Authorisation with Policy Engine Sidecar) Business Requirements impact.com is a partnership management platform that helps companies manage a variety of partnerships. Their platform offers an automated system that simplifies the...

IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project

Implementation and Evaluation of KLM-Style Defeasible Entailment and Explanation Algorithms

By: Chipo Hamayobe

Supervised By: Tommie Meyer, Jonas Haldimann

In the 1950s, McCarthy proposed the use of formal logic in artificial intelligence, introducing the idea of representing knowledge in a formal language to enable algorithmic reasoning. This proposal laid the foundation for the field of knowledge...

CS Masters by Dissertation

Improving Research Question Quality with Controlled Natural Languages and Large Language Models

RQ-CNL

By: Rector Ratsaka, Emma Van Der Berg, Mandikudza Dangwa

Supervised By: Zola Mahlaza

Formulating a well-defined research question (RQ) is a crucial yet often challenging step in the research process, particularly for trainee researchers. Poorly constructed RQs can lead to ambiguous objectives and ineffective methodologies, reducing the...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

Information security strategizing practices in developing economy public sector contexts: A case of Namibia

By: Popyeni Kautondokwa

Supervised By: Irwin Brown

There is an increase in data breaches globally resulting in billions of dollars in losses. The strategy as practice theoretical lens is used to understand the information security strategizing practices in a public sector organisation of a developing...

IS PhD

Innovative Solutions for Waste Management

Embracing Sustainability Through Technology

By: Konke Cele, Matovya Molala, Ramo Makama, Ovayo Myataza

Business RequirementsBulkmatech Cape's Bulkmatech Waste Solutions (BWS) division faces operational inefficiencies due to static collection schedules and lack of real-time visibility. This results in high fuel costs, unnecessary trips, and missed...

IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project

Investigating Deep Learning Solutions to Fish Identification and Classification

By: Joseph Goldblatt, Catalina Althoff-Thomson, Max Elkington

Supervised By: Patrick Marais, Jonathan Shock

Fishery managers, marine biologists, ecologists, and conservationists all rely on accurate estimates of fish population size and composition. Recently, there has been a growing interest in the use of Remote Underwater Video (RUV) methods for fish...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

ISANGO Early Warning System

A data-driven solution to improve learner retention in South African schools.

By: Uzair Noormahomed, Kabelo Masola, Miche De Villiers, Thabisile Njomi

With roughly 40% of learners dropping out before matric, especially in township schools, South Africa faces a serious education crisis. Poor data systems and reliance on manual methods make it hard for educators to spot and support at-risk learners in...

IS Hons Systems Development Project

IsiPython: A Localised IsiXhosa Programming Environment for Inclusive Computing Education

Combining Language, Learning, and Code to Make Programming More Accessible

By: Lutho Mngqibisa, Buhle Mlandu

Supervised By: Aslam Safla

The dominance of English in programming languages creates barriers for South African students whose primary language is not English, particularly in early Computer Science education. This forces learners to understand programming concepts while...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

IsiXhosa Medical Machine Translation

By: Elijah Sherman, Nick Matzopoulos, Malibongwe Makhonza

Supervised By: Francois Meyer

Machine translation (MT) systems for low-resource languages like isiXhosa are still a big challenge because there aren’t many parallel datasets available for training models. Current MT systems work well when translating between isiXhosa and English for...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

Kainos Vuku Management App

Building Connections

By: Caris Barnes, Ryan Badenhorst, Eunice Chihoma, Basetsana Rakumakoe

Supervised By: Walter Uys

Kainos Vuku is a Christian non-profit organisation dedicated to building authentic, Christ-centred relationships within communities through its Vuku Workbook program. The organisation currently manages member and financial data using shared Excel...

IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project

Knowledge Compilation For Defeasible Reasoning

By: Luke Slater

Supervised By: Tommie Meyer, Jesse Heyninck

Our work tackles defeasible reasoning—reasoning with “usually true” statements like if it’s a bird, it probably flies. These conditionals are organized by plausibility: more general or typical rules get higher ranks, and lower-ranked, conflicting ones...

CS Masters by Dissertation

KORA

Your favourite routine companion

By: Luyanda Nkuna, Kendall Sables, Thomas Baloyi

Students with ADHD face ongoing challenges with focus, organisation, and time management. Existing productivity tools are often visually cluttered, inconsistent, and overwhelming, resulting in anxiety and loss of motivation. The business requirement...

IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project

Lightweight AI Intrusion Detection

LAIDS

By: Sian Caine, Claire Campbell, Christopher Blignaut

Supervised By: Josiah Chavula

Intrusion detection systems (IDS) monitor network traffic for malicious activity. However, many AI-based IDSs are too resource-heavy for edge deployment, leaving resource-constrained portions of networks unguarded. The main objective of this study are to...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

LLMASP: Synthesising Answer Set Programs with LLMs

By: Rowan Rosenberg, Julyan Van Der Westhuizen, Keegan O'Brien

Supervised By: Jesse Heyninck

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a declarative programming framework. It is a powerful tool for solving complex logical and combinatorial problems, with many modern, real-world applications. However, its power is limited by a phenomenon known as the...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

Measuring the effects of climate control on presence in natural virtual environments

VRClimate

By: Pietro Scheepers, Zahra Bawa, Rachel Strachan

Supervised By: James Gain

Virtual Reality, or VR, is defined as a technology that allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment, whether that environment is a simulation of the real world or an imaginary world. Currently, the main focus of creating these virtual...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

Medical Samples Tracking Application

By: Liana Mbejeni, Udzulanarine Malindi, Nhlakanipho Msweli, Lukhanyo Mpondo

Supervised By: Elsje Scott

This project addresses critical inefficiencies in South Africa's medical sample transportation system, where a lack of real-time visibility between healthcare facilities and laboratories results in high sample rejection rates, compromised sample...

IS Hons Systems Development Project

Modelling Students’ Source Code Evolutions To Provide Personalised Guidance In Introductory Programming Courses

Personalised learning, MDP, RL, Education Technology

By: Herman KANDJIMI

Supervised By: Hussein Suleman

Programming skills are fundamental in cultivating critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity, which are integral to computational thinking competencies. These competencies are increasingly recognised as prerequisites for success in the future...

CS PhD

Molecular Modelling of STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE Carbohydrate Antigens for Optimizing Vaccine Design

By: Carla Coetzee

Supervised By: Michelle Kuttel, Neil Ravenscroft

Streptococcus pneumoniae is a Gram-positive pathogen that commonly colonizes the human nasopharynx and is a leading cause of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD), including pneumonia, otitis media, bacteraemia, and meningitis. Globally, lower respiratory...

CS PhD

MyAdvisor

Virtual Curriculum Assistant

By: Dylan Howard, Ethan Allies, Mitchell Flanegan

Supervised By: Aslam Safla, Nicholas Yerolemou

MyAdvisor is a centralized hub for UCT advising, built to simplify handbooks, streamline advisor access, and support degree planning. Instead of navigating scattered portals and static PDFs, students get one clear, interactive system that works on both...

CS Honours Project

One Click E-Commerce Web App

By: Lehlo Peta, Tinomudai Bopoto, Kumbirai Chari, Schmeichael Makoni

Mozambican SMEs depend on One Click POS for in-store management but lack online integration. This project introduces a plug-and-play e-commerce platform synced with Firestore to display real-time stock and enable WhatsApp ordering. Built with ASP.NET and...

IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project

Phoenix: AI Creatives Generator

By: Nella Wood, Raihan Mohamed, Khanya Maqolwana, Tammy Chu Shien Ho

Dentsu, one of the world’s largest advertising networks, continuously seeks ways to combine creativity, data, and technology to deliver impactful campaigns. Scaling content production while maintaining brand continuity, security, and adherence to...

IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project

POL-ID

AI-Based South African Honey Authentication

By: Yash Ramklass, Maryam Mather, Lillian Mtumanje

Supervised By: Patrick Marais, Cesarina Edmonds-Smith, Janais Delport

Authenticating the botanical origin of honey is crucial for ensuring product integrity, consumer trust, and sustainable trade. However, manual pollen identification under a microscope is time-consuming and prone to human error. To address this, our...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

QR Powered Stakeholder Inquiry Tracking app

By: Onthatile Mbowane, Tumelo Thole, Lilitha Kunene, Lesego Mejelo

Supervised By: Dirk Snyman

The CHIETA Stakeholder Management System was created in order to meet important business needs related to appointment scheduling, inquiry tracking, and stakeholder engagement. Prior to the transition of advisory services to a hybrid, partially virtual...

IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project

READ: Developing a South African ART with Fine-tuned Mispronunciation Detection, Voice Detection, Multi-speaker Detection and Text Generation

By: Daniel Holgate, Christian Slier, Kirsten Sutherland

Supervised By: Jan Buys

Reading literacy is poor for most South Africans due to the numerous negative aftereffects of Apartheid. Both Phala et al. and Naidoo et al. refer to the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2011, which revealed that 61% of school...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

Redirected Walking in VR

By: Prashanth Padiachy, Oscar Field, Kyle Fagan

Supervised By: James Gain

Our project explores how different VR locomotion techniques can be combined with Redirected Walking (RDW) to enable natural interaction with physical props in small tracked spaces. We developed three systems in Unity using the HTC Vive Pro: Free Teleport...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

SACM TuneIn

Concert Attendance Tracker

By: Safiya Abrahams

Supervised By: Walter Uys

The South African College of Music (SACM) currently relies on a paper cards to track student concert attendance. This is labour-intensive, error-prone, and vulnerable to loopholes. The project addresses these challenges with SACM TuneIn, a web-based...

IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project

Securing the digital highway

Investigating the performance of fuzzers on Wireguard-Go

By: Thalia Hawthorn, Michal Sacks

Supervised By: Josiah Chavula

Network-based tools have become a central component in the operation of many institutions such as businesses, universities and governments. The growing amount of sensitive data being transported over networks necessitates innovation to ensure these...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

Siyazalana Lineage Mapping and African Heritage

Digitally Preserving African Heritage

By: Akhona Mahlaba, Kelebogile Moima, Glen Nohaji, Jamie-Lee Schalkwyk

Supervised By: Zainab Ruhwanya

Siyazalana: Lineage Mapping addresses a critical business requirement faced by many African families: the lack of accessible, reliable, and culturally grounded genealogical records. Generations of disrupted record-keeping caused by colonialism and...

IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project

Siza Entrepreneur

Connecting Vision With Capital

By: Lusa Stofile, Zayahn Abrahams, Nicole Ndawula, Samukelile Jama

Business requirements Many entrepreneurs struggle to reach aligned investors, while investors waste time on unfocused outreach. The platform must: (1) enable entrepreneurs to publish clear pitches; (2) help investors discover opportunities by factors...

IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project

Skills Bridge platform

By: Caleb Tshinowa, Nihaad Mosaval, Taskeen Mookrey, Katleho Mokoena

Supervised By: Elsje Scott

SkillsBridge is a digital platform designed to connect skilled volunteers with community projects, enabling meaningful collaboration and sustainable impact. Originating from initiatives in communities like Vrygrond in Cape Town, the platform addresses...

SmartHarvest: Empowering South Africa's Farmers Through Technology

Growing smarter, farming better

By: Leah Brown, Adam Budge, Gabriella Geldenhuys

Supervised By: Elsje Scott

SmartHarvest is a mobile-first, ML-powered platform developed in collaboration with UCT’s AgriCode team to support South Africa’s smallholder farmers. These farmers face climate challenges, poor soil health, and limited access to technology, information,...

IS Hons Systems Development Project

SOILAI

Generating Soilscapes with Random Forets

By: Josh Britz, James Ridley

Supervised By: James Gain, Patrick Marais

Soils support plant life and form an important aspect of ecological biodiversity. Soil data, however, is often absent from digital terrains but nevertheless remain important in areas of computational ecology. Digital elevation maps are a common artefact...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

STASP

Sports Timetabling with Answer Set Programming

By: Mahir Ahammed, Roanda Muedi

Supervised By: Jesse Heyninck

This project explores the use of Answer Set Programming (ASP) as a declarative paradigm to solve the classic combinatorial sports timetabling problem. ASP allows scheduling rules and constraints to be expressed in a high-level, human-readable form, which...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

STGNN for share trend line prediction and change point detection on JSE.

Training STGNN Model to predict events of interests; trend lines and to detect trend change points on JSE, to support investment decision making.

By: Ephraim Adongo

Supervised By: Deshen Moodley

This research explores the application of advanced Spatial-Temporal Graph Neural Networks (STGNNs) for predicting events of interest in the Johannesburg Stock Exchange Market (JSE), specifically future share trend lines; how they can be used to detect...

CS Masters in AI

Streets

Reimagining Venue Discovery

By: Joshua Preston, Josh Birkholtz, Reece Sheldon, Tom Théron

Supervised By: Elsje Scott

Streets is a mobile and web-based platform designed to transform how tourists and locals discover, experience, and engage with local venues in Cape Town. The system bridges the gap between users seeking authentic experiences and venues striving for...

IS Hons Systems Development Project

Synthetic Data Generation for Small Data Orthopedic Radiology

By: Max Van Veen, Oliver Foxcroft, Ethan Topat

Supervised By: Geoff Nitschke, Bilal Aslan

Address the data scarcity issues faced by automated medical classification methods using machine learning models for synthetic data generation with an appropriate set of metrics to evaluate their quality and diversity performance.​

CS Honours CS Honours Project

The Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem

By: Jayden Moore, Ryan Schapiro, Aidan Brand

Supervised By: Krupa Prag

The Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem (DVRP) extends the classical Vehicle Routing Problem by incorporating dynamic and uncertain elements, such as stochastic customer requests, making it more applicable to real-world logistics. Unlike static routing where...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

Toolkits: Gender-Just Digital Innovation Design

By: Sierra Van Riel

Supervised By: Melissa Densmore

Work in the field of digital development has often been carried out without sufficient attention to gender justice. Indeed, where researchers or practitioners have been sensitive to gender, this has often only extended to “counting women” - gathering...

CS Masters by Dissertation

Toward Robust Malware Classification

Data Augmentation, Topology Optimisation, and Concept Drift Monitoring

By: Shaylin Velen, Callum Musselwhite, Simphile Mkhize

Supervised By: Geoff Nitschke

Our project investigates the application of various machine learning techniques for malware detection. As malware engineers improve and release new variants, identifying whether a file is malicious becomes increasingly challenging. This malware evolution...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

Track|Stock: Simplified Event Stock Management

Simplifying stock. Empowering teams. Transforming events.

By: Oratile Mogodi, Avish Judnarain, Carla Reinecke, Chulumanco Magwa

Supervised By: Elsje Scott

Track|Stock is a role-based web application built to centralise and digitise stock management for BBD merchandise across multiple branches, addressing inefficiencies, stock losses, and fragmented communication found in their traditional, manual stock...

IS Hons Systems Development Project

TrackX

Let's track the case

By: Jonluke Ferreira, Pearl Ndlozi, Kwande Dhlomo, Shewe Tarumbwa

In the realm of vehicle-related crime investigations, investigators face a growing challenge: vast amounts of GPS and digital data are collected daily, yet transforming this information into coherent, court-ready reports remains a time-consuming and...

IS Hons Systems Development Project

Traffic Flow

An Analysis of STGNNs through Visualization

By: Raaziq Parkar, Mohammad Arshad Hussain

Supervised By: Deshen Moodley

Traffic is a highly dynamic system containing spatial, temporal and random patterns. Spatial Temporal Graph Neural Networks(STGNNs) model traffic as an evolving graph, dynamically capturing both spatial and temporal patterns. Current evaluation metrics...

CS Honours CS Honours Project

Tutored AI

By: Tara Khai, Farzana Karreem, Kayla Wessels, Akshay Maharaj

This project introduces Tutored AI, a comprehensive, AI powered web application engineered to boost the effectiveness and appeal of student learning. It tackles the issue of generic educational materials by delivering a uniquely personalised experience...

IS Hons Systems Development Project

UCT Course Readiness and Completion System

Digitising Administration

By: Almaaz Saloojee, Wonga Dzingwa, Aneeqah Moses, Ntandoyesizwe Mlahleni

Supervised By: Zainab Ruhwanya, Walter Uys

Universities often face heavy administrative loads that lead to bottlenecks and delays in course preparation and delivery. The Course Readiness and Completion System was developed for the University of Cape Town to address inefficiencies and...

IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project

Village Health Laundry Operation Management System

One health solution for informal settlements

By: Kossam MUSUNDIRE, Amy Barry, Nazreen Ryklief

Supervised By: Maureen Tanner

Team 7 Project Abstract: Village Health Laundry Management System Business Requirement Village Health identified improper disposal of disposable nappies in Vrygrond as a major contributor to environmental degradation and the spread of zoonotic diseases....

IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project

WhatsApp Chatbot for Hiring Flow Automation

Streamlining Job applications with conversational automation

By: Lisa Kwetsi, Gomolemo Sebitlo, Kundi Phupheli, Alfred Beya Badjoko

Supervised By: Dirk Snyman, Kian Joubert

The project is driven by the need to address growing inefficiencies in traditional hiring processes. It requires the development of a WhatsApp AI chatbot that streamlines the job application process by automating candidate interactions and assisting...

IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project