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PhD Students |
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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 |
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Zaheer Timol grad. Sept. 2024 |
Ph.D
Modeeling 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) |
![Photo of Zaheer Timol](images/ZaheerTimol.png) |
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 |
![Photo of Marcus Low](images/MLow.png) |
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) |
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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) |
![Jason](images/VacStudents/Jason Hlozek.PNG) |
Christopher Laidler grad. April 2021 |
Ph.D.
GPU acceleration of the frequency domain acceleration search for binary pulsars. |
![Photo of Chris Laidler](images/ChrisLaidler.JPG) |
Samuel Mabakane
grad. April 2019 |
Ph.D.
Effective visualisation of callgraphs for optimisation of parallel programs: a design study |
![Photo of Dr Samuel Mabakane](images/DrSamuelMabakane.jpg) |
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 |
![Nathan Geffen picture](images/NathanGeffen.jpg) |
Ian Tunbridge
grad. June 2011 |
Ph.D.
Graphics Processing Unit Accelerated Coarse-Grained Protein-Protein Docking
Co-supervisor: James Gain |
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M.Sc |
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) |
![Photo of Ryan Lazar](images/RyanLazar.png) |
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) |
![Photo of Max Keresztesi](images/MaxK.png) |
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. |
![Photo of Sam Perumal](images/SPerumal.jpg) |
Alex Fourie
grad. Dec 2020
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M.Sc. (coursework+dissertation)
Conformational analysis of E. Coli carbohydrate antigens |
![Photo of Alex Fourie](Alex_Photo copy.jpg) |
Audrey Penz
grad. Dec 2020 |
M.Sc. (coursework+dissertation) in Statistics
Designing useful ways to support mid-career professionals in creating better financial futures. |
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Edmore Tutsirayi Moyo
grad. April 2019
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M.Sc. (part-time)
Accelerated Cooperative Co-Evolution on Multi-core Architectures.
Co-supervisor: Geoff Nitschke
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![Photo of Edmore Moyo](images/EdmoreMoyo.jpg) |
Adrianna Pinska
grad. April 2019 |
M.Sc.
Accelerated Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Protein-Protein Docking
Co-supervisors: James Gain, Robert Best (NIH, USA)
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![Photo of Adrianna Pinska](images/AdriannaPinskaGrad.jpg) |
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 |
![Kumbirai](images/Kumbirai Chigudu.jpg) |
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) |
![Photo of Zaheer Timol](images/ZaheerTimol.png) |
Genevieve Chang
grad. Dec 2015 |
M.Sc. (coursework+dissertation)
Designing an effective carbohydrate-bulding application user interface for the Android tablet environment. |
![Photo of Gen Chang](images/gen.jpg) |
Christopher Schollar
grad. June 2015 |
M.Sc.
Handling Radio Frequency Interference for the KAT7 Radio Telescope
Principal Supervisor: Sarah Blyth
Add. Co-supervisor: Anja Schroeder |
![Photo of C. Schollar](images/ChristopherSchollar.jpg) |
Scott Badenhorst
grad. June 2015 |
M.Sc.
HPC acceleration of astronomical H1 source detection.
Co-supervisor: Sarah Blyth |
![Photo of S. Badenhorst](images/ScottGrad.jpg) |
Marc Gordon
grad. Dec 2014 |
M.Sc. (coursework+dissertation)
Force Field Comparison through Computational Analysis of Capsular Polysaccharides of Streptococcus Pneumoniae Serotypes 19A and F
Co-supervisor: Neil Ravenscroft
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Andrew Potgieter
grad. Dec 2014 |
M.Sc. (coursework+dissertation)
Parallelization of the Weighted Histogram Analysis Method.
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![Photo of Andrew](images/photo_for_Michelle.jpg) |
Duncan Clough
grad. June 2014 |
M.Sc.
Lattice Boltzman liquid simulations on graphics hardware
Principal Supervisor: James Gain |
![Photo of Duncan Clough](images/DuncanClough.jpg) |
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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![Photo of Neann Mathai](images/NeannMathai.jpg) |
Richard Baxter
grad. Dec 2013 |
M.Sc.
GPU-based Acceleration of Radio Interferometry Point Source Visibility Simulations in the MeqTrees Framework
Principal Supervisor: Patrick Marais |
![Photo of Richard Baxter](images/RcihardBaxter.jpg) |
Rudolf van den Berg
grad. Dec 2010 |
M.Sc. (coursework+dissertation)
Force-extension of the Amylose Polysaccharide |
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Johannes Jansen van
Vuuren
grad Dec 2010 |
M.Sc.
Visualization of high-dimensional solution sets for docking of
molecular structures into EM micrographs
Co-supervisor: James Gain |
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Peter McMahon
grad. Dec 2009 |
M.Sc.
Accelerating Bioinformatics Applications using Reconfigurable Computers |
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Juan-Pierre Longmore
grad. Dec 2009 |
M.Sc.
Realistic Interactive Sand: A GPU-based Framework
Principal Supervisor: Patrick Marais |
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Ashley Reid
grad. Dec 2009 |
M.Sc.
Practical Fluid Dynamics for the Animation Industry
Principal Supervisor: James Gain |
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John Kyeyune
grad. Dec 2008 |
M.Sc.
Parallel Monte Carlo Simulations in LIBOR market models
Principal Supervisor: Peter Ouwehand |
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Staff |
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Farideh Badichi Akher |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Molecular Modelling: Glycoinformatics |
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Simon Cross |
Senior Developer |
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Undergraduate Research Assistants |
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Victor Gueorguiev
2015 CSC2005Z project and extension work in 2016/2017. |
Accerating molecular conformational searches with genetic algorithms. |
![Victor](images/Victor.jpg) |
Oliver de Bruin
2016 CSC2005Z project. |
Raspberry Pi Beowulf cluster. |
![Oliver](images/VacStudents/OliverDB.jpg) |
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.
![](images/StoryMakerGame.png)
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![Erin](images/VacStudents/ErinV.jpg)
![James](images/VacStudents/JFoster.JPG)
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Jason Hlozek
2014-2015 |
Molecular visualization software development and molecular simulations. |
![Jason](images/VacStudents/Jason Hlozek.PNG) |
James Watson
2012-2015 |
Development of the Glycano software. |
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