Data Science and Information Systems
This section includes researchers at the AIMS Research Centre whose fields of interest overlap with the other four key focus areas.
Researchers
Dr Bubacarr Bah, German Research Chair
Dr Bubacarr Bah is the German Research Chair of Mathematics with specialization in Data Science at AIMS South Africa. He received a BSc degree (with sum cum laude) in mathematics and physics from the University of The Gambia…
Dr Simukai Utete, Senior Resident Researcher
Dr Simukai Utete is currently the Academic Director at AIMS South Africa but still conducts researcher as a Senior Researcher at the AIMS South Africa Research Centre. Her undergraduate degree was in electrical engineering from the University of Zimbabwe…
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr Shankar Agarwal
Data Science
Dr Emmanuel Dufourq
Data Science in relation to Climate Science
PHD Students
David Attipoe
Computational financial
mathematics
Supervisor: Antoine Tambue
Jordan Masakuna Felicien
Computer Science
Supervisor: Simukai Utete
Dieudonne Kabongo Kantu
Supervisor: Ian Durbach
Rock Stephane Koffi
Computational financial mathematics
Supervisor:Antoine Tambue
Irene Kyomugisha
Genomic Data Science
Supervisor: Bubacarr Bah
Samuel Ofosu Mensah
Computer Vision
Supervisor: Bubacarr Bah
Rakgwahla Jessica Phalafala
Provable optimal neural network (deep learning) architectures
Supervisor: Bubacarr Bah
Rockefeller
Deep Learning applied to Renewable Energy
Supervisor: Bubacarr Bah
Research Master’s students
Neocosmos Kibidi
Geometric Deep Learning
Supervisor: Bubacarr Bah
Kiprono Elijah Koech
Data Science – Image Processing
Supervisor: Bubacarr Bah
Tshenolo Thato Daumas
Data Science
Supervisor: Bubacarr Bah
Juliana Thomasia Chakirath Marcos
Data Fusion and Formation control
Supervisor: Simukai Utete