|  | PhD Students |  | 
		   
          | Gerald Balekaki grad. Sept. 2024 | Ph.D. Automated detection and characterization of radio frequency interference for the Square Kilometer Array. Co-supervisors: Sarah Blyth, Anja Schroeder, Sonia Berman |  | 
		  
          | Zaheer Timol grad. Sept. 2024 | Ph.D Modelling and validation of bacterial O-antigen conformations: ring puckering in Shigella flexneri 7A and 7B O-antigens as a case study.
 Co-Supervisor: Neil Ravenscroft (Dept. Chemistry, UCT)  |  | 
		 
		   
          | Marcus Low grad. Sept. 2024 | Ph.D Exploring tuberculosis transmission and prevention strategies using a flexible, high performance agent-based model
 Co-Supervisor: Nathan Geffen |  | 
		   
  | Nicole Richardson grad. March 2024 | Ph.D. Molecular Modeling Studies of Carbohydrate Vaccine Antigens: Informing the Future of Vaccine Design
 Primary Supervisor: Neil Ravenscroft (Dept. Chemistry, UCT)  |   | 
        
		
		  | Jason Hlozek grad. April 2021 | Ph.D.   Molecular modeling of bacterial polysaccharide antigens to inform future vaccine development. Primary Supervisor: Neil Ravenscroft (Dept. Chemistry, UCT)  |  | 
		 
        | Christopher Laidler  grad. April 2021 | Ph.D.  GPU acceleration of the frequency domain acceleration search for binary pulsars. |  | 
		
		  | Samuel Mabakane grad. April 2019 | Ph.D. Effective visualisation of callgraphs for optimisation of parallel programs: a design study |  | 
		
        | Nathan Geffen  grad. April 2018 | Ph.D.    Design and implementation of programming tools for the microsimulation of infectious disease epidemics with a focus on HIV and TB |  | 
		      
        | Ian Tunbridge grad. June 2011 | Ph.D. Graphics Processing Unit Accelerated Coarse-Grained Protein-Protein DockingCo-supervisor: James Gain
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		    | Du Toit Spies to grad. Sept. 2025 | M.Sc Creating and Benchmarking HPy String and Collection Implementations and Comparison With Current C API
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        | Ryan Lazar grad. June 2022 | M.Sc Comparative evaluation of two carbohydrate force fields for modelling polysaccharide conformation
 Co-Supervisor: Neil Ravenscroft (Dept. Chemistry, UCT)  |  | 
      
        | Max Keresztesi grad. June 2022 | M.Sc NMR and molecular modelling studies of streptococcal and pneumococcal polysaccharide antigens
 Primary Supervisor: Neil Ravenscroft (Dept. Chemistry, UCT)  |  | 
      
        | Sameshan Perumal grad. June 2021  | M.Sc. (coursework+dissertation) in Statistics  Principal Supervisor: Tom Dietel (Dept. Physics, UCT)  Effective visualisation of event data from the ALICE experiment at CERN. |  | 
	  
          | Alex Fourie   grad. Dec 2020
			   | M.Sc. (coursework+dissertation) 
             Conformational analysis of E. Coli carbohydrate antigens  |  | 
	  
	    | Audrey Penz grad. Dec 2020 | M.Sc. (coursework+dissertation) in Statistics  Designing useful ways to support mid-career professionals in creating better financial futures. |  | 
	  
        | Edmore Tutsirayi Moyo
		     grad. April 2019 | M.Sc. (part-time) Accelerated Cooperative Co-Evolution on Multi-core Architectures.Co-supervisor: Geoff Nitschke
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        | Adrianna Pinska  grad. April 2019 | M.Sc. Accelerated Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Protein-Protein DockingCo-supervisors: James Gain, Robert Best (NIH, USA)
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        | Kumbirai Chigudu grad. December 2018 | M.Sc. (coursework+dissertation)    Design of a Prototype Mobile Application Interface for Efficient Accessing of Electronic Laboratory Results by Health Clinicians |  | 
      
      
        | Zaheer Timol  grad. April 2017 | M.Sc. Chemical and conformational studies of bacterial cell surface polysaccharide repeating units. 
 Principal Supervisor: Neil Ravenscroft (Dept. Chemistry, UCT)  Co-Supervisor: David Gammon  (Dept. Chemistry, UCT)  |  | 
      
        | Genevieve Chang grad. Dec 2015 | M.Sc. (coursework+dissertation) Designing an effective carbohydrate-bulding application user interface for the Android tablet environment. |  | 
      
        | Christopher Schollar grad. June 2015 | M.Sc. Handling Radio Frequency Interference for the KAT7 Radio TelescopePrincipal Supervisor: Sarah Blyth
 Add. Co-supervisor: Anja Schroeder |  | 
      
        | Scott Badenhorst  grad. June 2015 | M.Sc. HPC acceleration of astronomical H1 source detection.Co-supervisor: Sarah Blyth
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        | Marc Gordon grad. Dec 2014 | M.Sc. (coursework+dissertation)  Force Field Comparison through Computational Analysis of Capsular Polysaccharides of Streptococcus Pneumoniae Serotypes 19A and FCo-supervisor: Neil Ravenscroft
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        | Andrew Potgieter grad. Dec 2014 | M.Sc. (coursework+dissertation) Parallelization of the Weighted Histogram Analysis Method.   |  | 
       
      
      
        | Duncan Clough grad. June 2014 | M.Sc. Lattice Boltzman liquid simulations on graphics hardwarePrincipal Supervisor: James Gain
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        | Neann Mathai grad. Dec 2013 | M.Sc. Molecular modelling of the Streptococcus Pneumoniae serogroup 6 capsular polysaccharide antigens.Co-supervisor: Neil Ravenscroft
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        | Richard Baxter grad. Dec 2013 | M.Sc. GPU-based Acceleration of Radio Interferometry Point Source Visibility Simulations in the MeqTrees FrameworkPrincipal Supervisor: Patrick Marais
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        | Rudolf van den Berg grad. Dec 2010 | M.Sc. (coursework+dissertation) Force-extension of the Amylose Polysaccharide |  | 
      
        | Johannes Jansen van
        Vuuren grad Dec 2010
 | M.Sc. Visualization of high-dimensional solution sets for docking of
          molecular structures into EM micrographsCo-supervisor: James Gain
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        | Peter McMahon  grad. Dec 2009 | M.Sc. Accelerating Bioinformatics Applications using Reconfigurable Computers |  | 
      
        | Juan-Pierre Longmore  grad. Dec 2009 | M.Sc. Realistic Interactive Sand: A GPU-based FrameworkPrincipal Supervisor: Patrick Marais
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        | Ashley Reid grad. Dec 2009 | M.Sc. Practical Fluid Dynamics for the Animation IndustryPrincipal Supervisor: James Gain
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        | John Kyeyune grad. Dec 2008 | M.Sc. Parallel Monte Carlo Simulations in LIBOR market modelsPrincipal Supervisor: Peter Ouwehand
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        |  | Staff |  | 
      
        | Farideh Badichi Akher | Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Molecular Modelling: Glycoinformatics |  | 
      
        | Simon Cross  |  Senior Developer |  | 
      
        |  | Undergraduate Research Assistants |  | 
      
        | Victor Gueorguiev 2015 CSC2005Z project and extension work in 2016/2017. | Accerating molecular conformational searches with genetic algorithms. |  | 
      
        | Oliver de Bruin 2016 CSC2005Z project. | Raspberry Pi Beowulf cluster. |  | 
      
        | Erin Versveld James Foster Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) project: 2013-2014 | Comparison of effectiveness of two mobile application designs for encouraging children to read.  in collaboration with the Nal’ibali national reading-for-enjoyment campaign. 
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        | Jason Hlozek 2014-2015 | Molecular visualization software development and molecular simulations. |  | 
      
        | James Watson 2012-2015 | Development of the Glycano software. |  |