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 Peter Mkhize | mkhizpl | Knowledge management, Strategic Informations System | 0 | 1 |
| 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.
The main focus of my research is on ways to improve software quality in software development projects using contemporary technologies or environments such as 4IR, IoT, Big Data, Data Science, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, etc.
Interested students for MSc and PhD, Postdoctoral fellows and other research collaborations should consider projects to improve software quality. Ultimately, when software quality improves; performance of systems improves, business and customers are satisfied, safety and security improve, and there is betterment of the quality of life for humans. | 1 | 1 |
| Prof Ian Sanders | sandeid | Algorithms; Computational Geometry; Image Processing; Computer Science Education as related to formal languages and automata. | 3 | 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 Judy van Biljon | vbiljja | Human-Computer Interaction, specifically usability and user experience; Knowledge visualisation; Information and Communication for Development (ICT4D); Human-Computer Interaction for Development (HCI4D); Digital technology for teaching and learning
| 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 Bobby Tait | taitbl | Biometrics, Blockchain | 1 | 1 |
| 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 Hanifa Abdullah | abdulh | Governance, Risk Management, Compliance and Information Privacy Protection | 0 | 0 |
| Mr Danie Bisschoff | dbischof | Designing Banking Technology for the Aged and Disabled | 2 | 0 |
| Ms Portia Buthelezi | mathimp | Information security management, user security awareness, information privacy | 0 | 0 |
| Dr Bester Chimbo | chimbb | Child-Computer Interaction; Designing for children with children and other special user groups; Design of Technology for Education; HCI4D, Information Systems Leadership, ICT in Health (e-Health). | 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).
Specific topics:
1- Reverse engineering jUCMNav (URN process, formal method, tool development)
2- Virtual system for street work seekers: making street work permanent employees (Software Engineering, virtual company creation, smart cities) | 3 | 1 |
| Mrs Patricia Gouws | gouwspm | Robotics, programming, social media | 2 | 0 |
| 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), Smart Sustainable Cities. | 0 | 0 |
| Dr Jabulisiwe Mabila | mabiljp | Sustainable integration of ICTs for development and application of emerging technologies e.g. in education | 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 | 0 | 0 |
| Dr Mathias Mujinga | mujinm | Information Security, Usable Security, Cloud Computing Security | 0 | 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, User experience, e-Learning, e-Skills, e-Service quality, Application of mobile technologies. | 0 | 0 |
| Dr W van Staden | vstadwjc | Information Security, Privacy, Anonymity, Digital Forensics | 0 | 0 |
| Dr Corne Van Staden | vstadcj1 | User experience, m-learning, e-learning and eModeration | 1 | 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 Themba Masombuka | masomkt | Software engineering, Agile software development, DevOps, | 2 | 0 |
| Mr Siphe Mhlana | mhlans2 | ICT and education, e-learning | 1 | 0 |
| Mr Lindelani Nxumalo | nxumals | Knowledge Management | 1 | 0 |
| Mrs Dorothy Scholtz | scholid | e-Learning, Project Management, Information Systems, ODL | 0 | 0 |
| Mr Elias Tabane | tabane | Internet of things( IoT),
Web of Things ( WoT),
Blockchain,
Data analytics
IT governance(zachman, Togaf, Cobit, ITIL)
| 2 | 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 |
| Ms Ronell van der Merwe | vdmerwer | Data Science, Citizen Science, Natural Language Processing, Object Oriented Databases | 0 | 0 |
| Mrs Ruthea Vorster | rvorster | Green Computing, Sustainable IT, Green Information Systems
Information Privacy Culture, Information Management | 0 | 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 | Prof Lotriet is a researcher in Information Systems. His focus is on socio-technical aspects of the adoption and use of information systems in organizations and society. His main areas of focus are on the adoption and use of IS in organizations, society and developing countries. He is a qualitative researchers (i.e. the use of non-statistical research methods and approaches). He would be particularly interested in students who wish to study the design, adoption and use of information systems in relation to the UN priority areas such as: Sustainable development; Peacekeeping; Dealing with natural and other disasters; Migrants and migration; Making education accessible to all; e-Government resistance; Climate change. You can contact him at lotrihh@unisa.ac.za | 0 | 0 |
| 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 |