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 Alumni

  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)

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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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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)

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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

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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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 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

Kumbirai

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

 

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

 
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

 
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 Framework
Principal Supervisor: Patrick Marais

 
Ashley Reid

grad. Dec 2009

M.Sc.

Practical Fluid Dynamics for the Animation Industry
Principal Supervisor: James Gain

 
John Kyeyune

grad. Dec 2008

M.Sc.

Parallel Monte Carlo Simulations in LIBOR market models
Principal Supervisor: Peter Ouwehand

 
  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. Victor

Oliver de Bruin

2016 CSC2005Z project.

Raspberry Pi Beowulf cluster. Oliver

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.

Erin

James

Jason Hlozek

2014-2015

Molecular visualization software development and molecular simulations. Jason

James Watson

2012-2015

Development of the Glycano software.