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 | ITM Master's supervision slots open | Master's supervision slots open | PhD supervision slots open |
| Prof Ernest Mnkandla Computer Science | mnkane | 1. Artificial Intelligence to tackle socially relevant problems. 2. Software quality management using contemporary technologies and/or environments such as 4IR, IoT, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Agile Development, Cloud Computing, DevOps, etc. 3. Artificial intelligence ethics. | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Prof Felix Bankole Information Systems | bankofo | Expert Systems, Telecommunication Systems, Database Systems, Decision Support Systems, Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis. ICT impact | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Prof Alfred Coleman Computer Science | colema | ICT in health (e-health) and Business Informatics & Knowledge Management | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Prof Kirstin Krauss Information Systems | 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 | 0 |
| Prof Elmarie Kritzinger Information Systems | kritze | Information Security Education | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Prof Hugo Lotriet Information Systems | lotrihh | 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 researcher (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. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Prof Peter Mkhize Information Systems | mkhizpl | Knowledge management, Strategic Information Systems; Social media impact on Knowledge Management; Role of Knowledge Management in the 4th Industrial Revolution era; Tacit knowledge conversion; Knowledge transfer in Software development; and Changing nature of work. | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Prof Ian Sanders Computer Science Only available as co-supervisor | sandeid | Algorithms; Computational Geometry; Image Processing; Computer Science Education as related to formal languages and automata. Note that I am close to retirement. This means that I will be very selective about taking on students and will only co-supervise. If I decide that I am prepared to take on a student then I will find an appropriate co-supervisor. | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Prof Judy van Biljon Information Systems | 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 | 0 |
| Prof Bester Chimbo Information Systems | chimbb | User Experience & Interaction, Eye Tracking Technology, Child-Computer Interaction; Designing for children with children and other special user groups; Design of Technology for Education; HCI4D, Information Systems Leadership | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Prof Adele Da Veiga Information Systems | dveiga | Information security culture / cyber security culture / data privacy culture / POPIA culture | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Prof Marianne Loock Information Systems | loockm | Secure Knowledge Management; Access Control in a Data Mining environment; Secure Data Mining | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Prof Shawren Singh Information Systems | singhs | digital-government | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Prof Bobby Tait Computer Science | taitbl | Biometrics, Blockchain | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Prof Mc Donald van der Merwe Information Systems | vdmertm | e-Learning, m-Learning, Psycho-physiological aspects of Human Computer Interaction, Open Source movement. | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Prof Etienne van der Poel Computer Science | evdpoel | Computational Creativity, Machine Learning. Artificial Intelligence | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Dr Hanifa Abdullah Information Systems | abdulh | Information privacy/data privacy protection, Information privacy protection awareness, Information privacy compliance, Information security Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dr Danie Bisschoff Computer Science | dbischof | Designing Banking Technology for the Aged and Disabled | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| Ms Portia Buthelezi Computer Science Only available as co-supervisor | mathimp | Information systems in raising awareness, information systems and Indigenous knowledge awareness , user security awareness, information privacy, technology and mobile bullying, Technology and financial management. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dr B Chipangura Information Systems | chipab | Mobile Centric Access to Information; M-Learning; E-Learning; Software usability and user experience (Human Computer Interaction) | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Dr Cyrille Dongmo Computer Science | 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) | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Dr Patricia Gouws Information Systems | gouwspm | Robotics, programming, social media | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Mr Ken Halland Computer Science Only available as co-supervisor | hallakj | Applied Logic and Description Logics | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Dr Grant Howard Information Systems | howargr | IT-Organisational Change || Organisational Transformation and IS/IT || Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and Organisations || Smart Sustainable Cities || Green Information Systems (Green IS) || Green Information Technology (Green IT) || Green Computing || ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S) || Information Systems (IS) for community engagement (IS4CE) | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Dr Jabulisiwe Mabila Information Systems Only available as co-supervisor | mabiljp | Sustainable integration of ICTs for development and application of emerging technologies e.g. in education | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mr Pheeha Machaka Computer Science Only available as co-supervisor | machap | ICT4D; WSN; Mesh Networks; Wi-Fi; Soft Computing; Artificial Intelligence; | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Dr Jan Mentz Information Systems | mentzjc | Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Modelling, Enterprise Architecture Frameworks, reference architectures, cloud computing, Enterprise Governance and information systems in business. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mr Samuel Mtsweni Computer Science Only available as co-supervisor | 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 | 0 |
| Dr Mathias Mujinga Information Systems | mujinm | Information Security, Usable Security, Cloud Computing Security, IS Service Quality | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Dr Vincent Mzazi Information Systems | 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 | 2 | 1 |
| Mr Lindelani Nxumalo Computer Science Only available as co-supervisor | nxumals | Knowledge Management | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Mr Elisha Ochola Computer Science | ocholeo | Routing Protocols in Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Ad Hoc Networks Security | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dr Mampilo Phahlane Information Systems Only available as co-supervisor | phahlmm | Adoption and use of information systems by organizations and individuals. | 0 | 6 | 4 |
| Dr Colin Pilkington Computer Science | pilkicl | Computing education, Virtual learning environments | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Dr Marthie Schoeman Computer Science | schoema | Computing education, visualization, ODL, e-learning | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Mrs Dorothy Scholtz Computer Science Only available as co-supervisor | scholid | Cyber safety awareness, e-Learning, Project Management, Information Systems, ODL | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dr Sam Ssemugabi Information Systems | ssemus | Human-Computer Interaction, User experience, e-Learning, e-Skills, e-Service quality, Application of mobile technologies. | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Dr Anitta Thomas Computer Science | thomaa | Diagram specifications, automated processing of diagrams | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Dr Sreedevi Vallabhapurapu Computer Science Only available as co-supervisor | vallas | 1. Development of Environmental friendly and Energy efficient ReRAM type memories for "Green computing". 2. FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION(4IR) | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Ms Ronell van der Merwe Computer Science Only available as co-supervisor | vdmerwer | Data Science, Citizen Science, Natural Language Processing, Object Oriented Databases | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dr Corne Van Staden Information Systems Only available as co-supervisor | vstadcj1 | User experience, m-learning, e-learning and eModeration | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Mrs Ruthea Vorster Computer Science Only available as co-supervisor | rvorster | Green Computing, Sustainable IT, Green Information Systems Information Privacy Culture, Information Management | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mrs Petra le Roux Computer Science | lrouxp | ODL e-Learning and e-Assessment; Computer Science education : Programming; Psychological Aspects of Computing and Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dr Themba Masombuka Computer Science Only available as co-supervisor | masomkt | Software engineering, Agile software development, DevOps, | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Mr Siphe Mhlana Computer Science Only available as co-supervisor | mhlans2 | ICT and education, e-learning | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Ms Tebatso Moape Computer Science Only available as co-supervisor | moapetg | I am looking for students to supervise in Computational Linguistics. Computational Linguistics is a combination of Linguistics, Machine Leaning and Artificial Intelligence. Research in this area includes the development of Machine Translation Systems, Part of Speech Taggers, Language Modelling, Morphological analyzers, e.t.c. | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Ms Promise Mvelase Computer Science Only available as co-supervisor | mvelap | Emerging technologies, cyber-physical systems/IoT, Data Analytics (Big data/small data), Cyber-infrastructure (Software and advanced networks, computing systems, advanced instruments and data repositories, visualization environments) | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Mr Kokisa Phorah Computer Science Only available as co-supervisor | phorake | I am looking for Honours and Masters degrees students. I can organize co-supervision for PhD students with collaboration with researchers of high caliber from University of Pretoria, Rhodes University and AIMS (Cape Town)/ University Stellenbosch. 1. Application of ML/AI of different sectors 2. Developing predictive models using ML and AI 3. Data Sciences 4. Natural Language processing 5. Deep leaning 6. Image ausing ML and AI Others 1. ICT in education and eLearning 2. EA 3. E-health | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Mr Elias Tabane Information Systems Only available as co-supervisor | tabane | Internet of things( IoT), Web of Things ( WoT), Digital skills Machine learning Ai Data Science | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| External Supervisors | Research area | ITM Master's supervision slots open | Master's supervision slots open | PhD supervision slots open |