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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
             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)   | 
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          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  | 
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  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)   | 
			
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        | Christopher Laidler   grad. April 2021  | 
        Ph.D. 
            GPU acceleration of the frequency domain acceleration search for binary pulsars.  | 
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		  Samuel Mabakane 
	      grad. April 2019  | 
		  Ph.D. 
	       Effective visualisation of callgraphs for optimisation of parallel programs: a design study  | 
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        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  | 
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        | Ian Tunbridge
         grad. June 2011  | 
        Ph.D.
           Graphics Processing Unit Accelerated Coarse-Grained Protein-Protein Docking 
        Co-supervisor: James Gain  | 
         
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		    Du Toit Spies 
		   to grad. Sept. 2025 
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		    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)   | 
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        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)   | 
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        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.  | 
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          Alex Fourie 
            grad. Dec 2020
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          M.Sc. (coursework+dissertation) 
             
        Conformational analysis of E. Coli carbohydrate antigens   | 
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	    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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        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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        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  | 
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        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)   | 
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        Genevieve Chang 
        grad. Dec 2015  | 
        M.Sc. (coursework+dissertation)
          
         Designing an effective carbohydrate-bulding application user interface for the Android tablet environment.  | 
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        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  | 
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        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 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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        | Duncan Clough
         grad. June 2014  | 
        
          M.Sc.
           Lattice Boltzman liquid simulations on graphics hardware 
          Principal 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 Framework 
            Principal Supervisor: Patrick Marais  | 
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        | 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. | 
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        Oliver de Bruin 
          2016 CSC2005Z project.  | 
        Raspberry Pi Beowulf cluster. | 
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        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. | 
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        James Watson 
          2012-2015  | 
        Development of the Glycano software. | 
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