Now

The day job

Lead Data Scientist, Absa Group. Based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Research

A doctoral research proposal is in preparation at the University of the Witwatersrand, building on the MSc work on learning the level set method with echo state networks for image segmentation. It is at proposal stage and not yet registered. The published papers are on the research page.

Building

• Ubunye Engine

  Proving that the same pipeline runs unchanged on a laptop and on the big clouds, on real data, not demos.

• Kasilam Digital Platforms

  Websites and digital tools for township businesses, and teaching people to build them themselves.

Away from the screen

Learning to rest. Sleeping, travelling, taking photographs, watching anime, spending time with people. Occasionally doing nothing at all.