Researcher: WandileLesejane, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Prof Nukri Komin, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg The H.E.S.S is one of the best IACTs and is crucial for studying cosmic particles, particularly gamma induced particles. It is able todetect particles with energies ranging from tens of GeV to

Researcher: Fortune Mhlanga, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Dr Wilbert Chagwiza, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg The telecommunications industry lose customers to their competitors daily in the world. The churning of customers always leads to reduced revenues. The need to create predictive models that would predict customers

Researcher: Thanganedzo Beverly Mashamba, University VendaSupervisor: Dr W Chagwiza, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Lending money to customers, it is a good investment if the credit card is with a customer with good credit standing[1, 2]. Credit card applicants are usually subjected to thorough background checks before

Researcher: Khanya May, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Dr Wilbert Chagwiza, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Fraud presents a threat that has serious consequences in the insurance industry. In recent years the use of machine learning and analytical techniques for fraud detection has been a topic of

Researcher: Warren Freeborough, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisors: Prof. Terence van Zyl, University of Johannesburg and Nikki Gentle, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg The study of living systems has prompted improvements in sequencing technology, which in turn has led to biological science entering the field of big

Researcher: Ignitious Chauke, University of VendaSupervisor: Dr Caston Sigauke, University of Venda This study approximate monthly gold production from Sibanye-Stillwater South Africa (SA) gold operations based on five sigmoid models. The studied models were Gompertz, Gaussian, Probit and the Hill, which were used to forecast the future.

Researcher: Leslie Dwolatzky, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Prof. Rod Alence, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg This research project investigates the relationship between change in support for the ANC and the change in the provision of public services at the electoral ward level. The project replicates the

Researcher: Yaseen Essa , University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisors: Dr Ritesh Ajoodah and Dr Hugh Hunt , University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg We evaluated the prediction ability of the Long-Short Term-Memory-Recurrent Neural Network (LSTM) model to predict short-term lightening flash densities within South Africa using historical lightening

Researcher: Takunda Pfigu, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Dr Nyasha Mahonye, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Financial Inclusion : Process that ensures the access to and usage of basic formal financial services for all. It is crucial for local economic development. Rural people, women and poor people

Researcher: Mohammad Rehman, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Dr Wilbert Chagwiza, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg The combination of traditional technical and fundamental analysis techniques and machine learning techniques has become a common practice for informed stock price prediction. The focus of this research was to stochastically