April 12, 2024 | Category:
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Unisan among Africa's top career women
Based on her remarkable accomplishments, career development platform 9to5Chick has included Prof Daphney Mathebula in the Department of Decision Sciences in its list of Top 100 Career Women in Africa for 2024.
May 09, 2022 | Category:
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Meet Professor Kerstin Jordaan – A whiz with numbers
As a B3 NRF-rated academic, Professor Kerstin Jordaan is one of only three B-rated female mathematicians in South Africa. She is also only the fifth female in her field to have been rated in this category since the inception of the NRF ratings in 1984.
May 05, 2022 | Category:
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Venda’s first mathematics PhD graduate joins CEMS
Prof Dephney Mathebula, one of the recent appointees in Decision Sciences, was the first person to obtain a doctoral degree in mathematics at the University of Venda in 2018. Until she joined Unisa she was working as a senior lecturer at the University of Venda.
April 14, 2020 | Category:
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Artificial intelligence inspired by nature
"When you consider how elegantly nature copes with complexity, it makes sense to borrow these ideas to deal with complexity in the problems that the world is facing," says Prof Katherine Malan, a member of the Unisa One Million Rand Club.
April 03, 2020 | Category:
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Striving to remain globally competitive
Prof Kerstin Jordaan, member of a very exclusive Unisa club, says that she sees many positive signs of an increasing focus on quality research rather than on the quantity of research papers.
November 30, 2017 | Category:
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Unisa researchers work on one million euro project
The CEMS Computability, Complexity, and Randomness in Decision Sciences research group is contributing to Computing with Infinite Data, which involves universities in eight European countries, as well as Japan, Korea, Chile, and SA.