The tables below contains all current research fields offered within the School of Computing (SOC) at Unisa, as well as supervision slots open per supervisor.
| Internal Supervisors | Email @unisa.ac.za | Research area | Master's supervision slots open | PhD supervision slots open |
| Prof Isaac Osunmakinde | osunmio | Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence - Robotics and Agent systems, Environmental Safety, Sensor and Telecommunication Networks, Business Intelligence, & Computational Sciences | 3 | 4 |
| Prof Kirstin Krauss | krauske | Critical Social Theory, ICTs and Education, ICTs and community engagement, Ethnography, Information Systems Leadership, Information Systems Theory and Theory development, Supervision Practices in Information Systems | 0 | 0 |
| Prof Elmarie Kritzinger | kritze | Information Security Education | 0 | 0 |
| Prof Jan H Kroeze | kroezjh | African hermeneutics and IS; Digitising African games; How can digital African games be used to improve computer literacy in African communities?; Africanisation of IS; Transformation/Africanisation/Decoloniality and IS; The impact of internet radio on dispersed communities from Africa; Digital inclusion and empowerment for persons with disabilities in Africa; Humanities-enriched Information Systems; Digital humanities/Humanities computing; Hermeneutics in IS; IS research theory and philosophy. Please contact Prof Kroeze if you need more information regarding these topics. | 0 | 0 |
| Prof Ernest Mnkandla | mnkane | The world today is overwhelmed with gigabytes of data that are collected and stored in various forms (structured and unstructured). The nature of our real-world problems today is characterised by very complex processes in which mathematical reasoning or traditional modelling are simply inadequate, such complexities are a result of some uncertainties in these processes due to their stochastic nature. Software engineering processes belong to this category of complex processes.
In order to improve the quality of software, many software development tasks within software engineering processes can be formulated as learning problems and approaches in terms of machine learning algorithms. This research focuses on the application of machine learning algorithms to model the: 1. Software development projects processes. 2. Software delivery pipeline processes and 3. Big data analytics in a smart cities context.
| 0 | 0 |
| Prof Ian Sanders | sandeid | Algorithms; Computational Geometry; Image Processing; Computer Science Education | 2 | 3 |
| Prof Judy van Biljon | vbiljja | Data science empowers citizens, civil servants and entrepreneurs by helping them extract knowledge from data. The focus is on the emerging field of human-centred data science, mainly on data, information and knowledge visualisation, data user-interfaces/ HCI and open data access and use.
Example topics: (1) Developing and evaluating open data visualisations to help citizens understand critical governance, (2) Knowledge visualisation in teaching and learning, (3) Visualisation in BI | 0 | 0 |
| Prof Felix Bankole | bankofo | Expert Systems, Telecommunication Systems, Database Systems, Decision Support Systems, Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis. ICT impact | 1 | 1 |
| Prof Alfred Coleman | colema | ICT in health (e-health) and Business Informatics & Knowledge Management | 0 | 0 |
| Prof Marianne Loock | loockm | Information Security Awareness; Information Security and Business Intelligence; Access Control in a Data Mining environment | 0 | 0 |
| Prof Peter Mkhize | mkhizpl | Knowledge management, Strategic Informations System | 0 | 1 |
| Prof Bobby Tait | taitbl | Network Security, Voice Recognition, Biometrics, Applied Encryption Technologies; Forensics | 2 | 2 |
| Prof Hossana Twinomurinzi | twinoh | E-government, ICT for development (ICT4D), e-entrepreneurship (ICT in Entrepreneurship), mobile app development (from a sociotechnical dimension) | 0 | 0 |
| Prof Mc Donald van der Merwe | vdmertm | e-Learning, m-Learning, Psycho-physiological aspects of Human
Computer Interaction, Open Source movement | 0 | 0 |
| Prof Etienne van der Poel | evdpoel | Computational Creativity, Machine Learning. Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 1 |
| Ms H Abdullah | abdulh | Governance, Risk Management, Information Security and Compliance | 0 | 0 |
| Mr Danie Bisschoff | dbischof | Designing Banking Technology for the Aged and Disabled | 2 | 0 |
| Dr Bester Chimbo | chimbb | Child-Computer Interaction; Designing for children with children and other special user groups; Design of Technology for Education; ICT4D. | 0 | 0 |
| Dr B Chipangura | chipab | Mobile Centric Access to Information; M-Learning; E-Learning; Software usability and user experience (Human Computer Interaction)
| 0 | 1 |
| Dr Adele Da Veiga | dveiga | Information security culture / cyber security culture / data privacy culture / POPIA culture
| 0 | 0 |
| Dr Cyrille Dongmo | dongmc | Combining semi-formal and formal specification techniques - Requirements Engineering - Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering (GORE) Methods - Formal Software Requirement Specification with Z/Object-Z - User Requirements Notation (URN). | 3 | 1 |
| Mr Ken Halland | hallakj | Applied Logic and Description Logics | 3 | 0 |
| Dr Grant Howard | howargr | IT-related Organisational Change, Organisational Transformation and IS/IT, Green Information Systems (Green IS), Green Information Technology (Green IT), Green Computing, ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S), Information Systems (IS) for community engagement (IS4CE). | 0 | 0 |
| Dr Jan Mentz | mentzjc | Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Modelling, Enterprise Architecture Frameworks, reference architectures, cloud computing, Enterprise Governance and information systems in business. | 0 | 0 |
| Mr Samuel Mtsweni | mtswees | Information Systems, Information Systems Development, Information System Development Projects, Software Development, Software Development Projects, IS Adoption and Usage, Agile Project Management ,Knowledge Management | 2 | 0 |
| Mr Mathias Mujinga | mujinm | Information Security, Usable Security, Cloud Computing Security | 2 | 0 |
| Dr Vincent Mzazi | hornevz | Areas: e-health. epidemiology research. primary health care. public health medicine. quality assurance and clinical practice guidelines. community outreach primary health care. m-health. ICT4Health.
Preference: I would like to work with students that are interested in projects that have an indepth engagement with the health system, rather than a superficial one. | 0 | 0 |
| Mr Elisha Ochola | ocholeo | Routing Protocols in Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Ad Hoc Networks Security | 0 | 0 |
| Dr Mampilo Phahlane | phahlmm | Adoption and use of information systems by organizations and individuals. | 6 | 4 |
| Mr Colin Pilkington | pilkicl | Computing education, Virtual learning environments | 0 | 0 |
| Dr Marthie Schoeman | schoema | Computing education, visualization, ODL
| 0 | 0 |
| Dr Shawren Singh | singhs | digital-government | 1 | 0 |
| Mr Sam Ssemugabi | ssemus | Human-Computer Interaction, e-Learning, e-Skills, e-Service quality, Application of mobile technology | 0 | 0 |
| Dr W van Staden | vstadwjc | Information Security, Privacy, Anonymity, Digital Forensics | 0 | 0 |
| Mrs Petra le Roux | lrouxp | ODL e-Learning and e-Assessment;
Computer Science education : Programming;
Psychological Aspects of Computing and Information Systems
| 0 | 0 |
| Mr Lindelani Nxumalo | nxumals | Knowledge Management | 1 | 0 |
| Mrs Dorothy Scholtz | scholid | e-Learning, Project Management, Information Systems, ODL | 0 | 0 |
| Ms Anitta Thomas | thomaa | Trust Negotiation in Information Security | 0 | 0 |
| Mrs Sreedevi Vallabhapurapu | vallas | Development of organic resistive switching computer memory devices | 3 | 0 |
| Dr Corne Van Staden | vstadcj1 | User experience, m-learning, e-learning and eModeration | 0 | 0 |
| Mrs Ruthea Vorster | rvorster | Green Computing, Sustainable IT, Green Information Systems | 1 | 0 |
| External Supervisors | Research area | Master's supervision slots open | PhD supervision slots open |
| Prof Marlien Herselman | Innovation models in health, education and business information systems, Community informatics, ICT4D, MHealth & eHealth, skills transfer, deploying and integrating technology to improve lives. Email is MHerselman@csir.co.za | 0 | 0 |
| Prof Ernest Ketcha Ngassam | Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Security Architecture, Information Security, Business Telecommunications, Internet of Things, Internet of Services (Services Engineering & Methodologies), ICT for Development, Big Data and Analytics, Software Construction, Services Oriented Architectures, Algorithmic, Theoretical Computing using Finite Automata (High-Performance Pattern Matching, Computational Biology, Network Intrusion Detection, Genomic, Natural and Computer Virus Scanning, NLP). Email: eketcha@gmail.com | 0 | 0 |
| Prof Mariki Eloff | Computer and Information Security, Project Management: eloffmm@unisa.ac.za | 0 | 0 |
| Prof Les Labuschagne | IT Project, Programme and Portfolio Management: llabus@unisa.ac.za | 0 | 0 |
| Prof Hugo Lotriet | Epistemic issues in IS, Socio-technical systems, ICT4D: South African students who are actively involved in projects that involve the introduction, adoption and use of technology by South African communities, preferably in a developmental context and who wish to conduct some academic research within such a context. The nature of the research projects will have to be qualitative. lotrihh@unisa.ac.za | 1 | 1 |
| Prof Laurette Pretorius | pretol@unisa.ac.za - Natural language processing and computational linguistics;
Natural language technology for under-resourced languages;
The role of natural language and multilingual natural language processing in
? semantic computing, semantic technologies, including ontology development;
? knowledge extraction from text;
? controlled natural language for domain specific precise machine translation and language generation. :
| 1 | 1 |
| Prof Andre Van der Poll | vdpolja@unisa.ac.za :
Formal Specification Techniques, Automated Reasoning, Combining Formal and Semi-formal Specification Techniques, Formal Methods in Business Applications; Formalisms in Cloud Computing (CC); Formalisms in Business Intelligence (BI) | 3 | 3 |
| Prof Zengzhui Wang | wangz@unisa.ac.za:
Artificial Intelligence: Neural network, Particle Swarm Optimization, Ant colony optimization algorithms, Genetic Algorithms, Energy (power system) Optimization, and Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization;
Intelligent Control: Optimal Control, Fuzzy and/or Neural Network Control, Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control;
Encryption, Complex networks, etc?
| 1 | 2 |