Artificial Intelligence Research Unit (AIRU)

By: Henok Moges, Ahana Maharaj, Jack Montgomery, Mazwi Kelvin Nyadzayo

Supervised By: Deshen Moodley

The Artificial Intelligence Research Unit (AIRU), based in the Department of Computer Science in the Faculty of Science at the University of Cape Town conducts foundational and applied research across a broad range of AI areas. These include machine...

C3SA

Cybersecurity

By: Tendani Chimboza

C3SA is part of the global constellation of regional cybersecurity capacity research centres which includes the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre (GCSCC) and Oceania Cyber Security Centre (OCSC). C3SA is a consortium between Research ICT Africa...

CapeNLG group

Natural language generation

By: Zola Mahlaza, Daniel Holgate, Phuthang Makhupane, Nana Kwabena Opoku-Acheampong, Dennis Kiptanui Too, Atshilaho Nethathe

This is a showcase of some of the work done by members of the CapeNLG research group. We primarily work on natural language processing, with particular focus on natural language generation for low-resourced African languages. In this exhibit, we will...

Collaborative Visual Computing Laboratory

By: James Gain, Liza Siurina, James Burness, Maurice Bossekota Gbaya, Johan Bontes, Zebiao Wu, Jai Om, Dennis Kiptanui Too, Mazano Kuhudzai, Daniel Gordon, Tobias Kramer, Tumelo Matobo, Shivaskar Naidoo, Kayuri Chetty

The Collaborative Visual Computing Laboratory conducts research in Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Virtual Reality. It is led by Prof. James Gain and A/Prof. Patrick Marais.

Computational Vaccine Research

By: Nicholas Yerolemou , Farzana Haque Toma, Carla Coetzee, Unays Bhad

Supervised By: Michelle Kuttel, Neil Ravenscroft, Nicole Richardson

Our research group combines computational modelling and software engineering to study bacterial glycobiology and advance structural bioinformatics. We focus on two primary directions: Computational Glycobiology & Vaccine Design: We perform molecular...

Digital Libraries Laboratory

By: Hussein Suleman, Claytone Sikasote, Folasade Adedeji, Nkiruka Iwundu, Wilson Kalambo, Jivashi Nagar

Supervised By: Hussein Suleman

The Digital Libraries Laboratory conducts research and provides support for information management problems with particular emphasis on the poor countries of the world with their associated unique constraints, such as cultural differences, limited...

Evolutionary Machine Learning Group

By: Geoff Nitschke, Sian Heesom-Green, Bilal Aslan, Max Van Veen, Oliver Foxcroft, Reece Van Der Bank, Phiwumusa Ngidi

Current research in the Evolutionary Machine Learning group focuses on several topics including: Swarm Robotics, Hybrid Artificial Life, Neural Complexity, Evolutionary design and Collective Behaviour Transfer.

Hasso Plattner Institute

By: Craig Balfour, Popyeni Kautondokwa, Godfrey Haonga, Nomonde Khalo

Supervised By: Melissa Densmore

The Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) research collaboration brings together PhD researchers from Computer Science and Information Systems at UCT. This exhibit presents their work, shown on the posters from the HPI Progress Symposium.

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Lab

By: Rachel Oluwatuyi, Sierra Van Riel, Yazeed Adams, Sabiha Shaikh, Ella THORBURN

Supervised By: Melissa Densmore

The Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Lab at the Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town (UCT), promotes community-based innovation, connecting communities and advancing human-centred technology design. Our research sits at the...

Teaching Robots to ACT

Teleoperation for Robot Learning: From Demonstrations to Data

By: Sicelukwanda Zwane

Supervised By: Sicelukwanda Zwane

Data collection is a critical first step in supervised learning. For a model to generalise to new situations, its training data must adequately represent the conditions it will encounter at test time. Achieving this in robotics is challenging: collecting...

The Centre for Information Technology and National Development in Africa (CITANDA)

CITANDA is a research unit housed within the Department of Information Systems at the University of Cape Town.

By: Ronald Chiwariro

Supervised By: Salah Kabanda, Dirk Snyman

CITANDA is the vehicle through which research by the department and interdisciplinary collaborators is branded and funded. It is a conduit for drawing together researchers. CITANDA aims to bring together researchers, projects, funders, and programmes...

University of Cape Town Natural Language Processing Group

UCT NLP Group

By: Natalie Alexander, Claytone Sikasote, Anri Lombard, Ruba Osman

Supervised By: Jan Buys, Francois Meyer

We do research in natural language processing, with a focus on developing language resources and language models for low-resource South African and African languages. For models and datasets, please visit: https://huggingface.co/uctnlp.