Topics

The subjects the work is about, across projects, research, publications, writing and talks. A subject gets its own page once there is enough work behind it to be worth reading; the rest are listed so the full range is visible, and each links to wherever that work lives.

Topic pages

AI education and practical AI literacyPractical AI education from South Africa: FabAcademic Unfiltered sessions, Kasilam township capability building, and university ML workshops.17 items
AI agentsBuilding with AI agents in practice: agentic systems, retrieval, tools, security, reliability and CI, plus public sessions for non coders.10 items
PythonPython as an engineering language: open source libraries for Spark pipelines and Bayesian filtering, and how to package a library properly.8 items
Software engineeringSoftware engineering for AI systems: agents in the development workflow, reliability, security, CI, packaging, and open source code to inspect.6 items
Recurrent neural networksRecurrent neural networks across three research lines: hearing loss in mine workers, seasonal climate forecasting and echo state networks.6 items
Climate risk and geospatial machine learningClimate risk and geospatial ML: seasonal forecasting research, models in a petabyte scale platform, and flood risk across 230,000+ properties.6 items
Data scienceApplied data science in insurance, telecoms, research and higher education, and writing on building the capability around the models.4 items
Data engineeringData engineering behind production analytics: streaming telemetry, Spark and Databricks pipelines, and the open source Ubunye Engine.4 items
MLOps and production machine learningProduction machine learning from practice: governed ML on Databricks, real time systems at telecoms scale, and the open source Ubunye Engine.3 items
Computer visionComputer vision research: learning level set image segmentation with echo state networks and recurrent models, plus an object following robot.3 items
Open sourceOpen source Python from production problems: Ubunye Engine for portable Spark pipelines, TFiltersPy for Bayesian filtering, and how to package.3 items
Apache SparkApache Spark in production and open source: telecoms telemetry, insurance workloads on Databricks, and portable pipelines with Ubunye Engine.3 items

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Machine learning: Machine learning for hearing loss risk in mine workers, Wildfire estimation with kernel density estimators, ML-based Probabilistic Prediction of 2m Temperature and Total Precipitation

More methods

Retrieval augmented generation: AI education: FabAcademic Unfiltered and Thabang AI, The Practical Roadmap to Building With AI Agents, Part 3: Giving an Agent Knowledge
Reservoir computing: Echo state networks for level set image segmentation, Learning Level Set Method by Echo State Network for Image Segmentation
Echo state networks: Echo state networks for level set image segmentation, Learning Level Set Method by Echo State Network for Image Segmentation
Image segmentation: Echo state networks for level set image segmentation, Learning Level Set Method by Echo State Network for Image Segmentation
Level set method: Echo state networks for level set image segmentation, Learning Level Set Method by Echo State Network for Image Segmentation
Deep learning: Climate forecasting and geospatial ML at IBM Research, Echo state networks for level set image segmentation, Machine learning for seasonal climate forecasting
Bayesian filtering: TFiltersPy: Kalman and particle filters for Python
State estimation: TFiltersPy: Kalman and particle filters for Python
Kalman filtering: TFiltersPy: Kalman and particle filters for Python
Ensemble Kalman filter: TFiltersPy: Kalman and particle filters for Python
Particle filtering: TFiltersPy: Kalman and particle filters for Python
Time series: TFiltersPy: Kalman and particle filters for Python, Machine learning for seasonal climate forecasting
Mathematical optimisation: Generator optimisation and streaming at Vodacom
Recommender systems: Student success analytics and recommendations at Wits
Stream processing: Generator optimisation and streaming at Vodacom
Extract, transform, load: Ubunye Engine: portable Spark pipelines for data and ML
Seasonal forecasting: Climate forecasting and geospatial ML at IBM Research, Machine learning for seasonal climate forecasting, ML-based Probabilistic Prediction of 2m Temperature and Total Precipitation
Reproducibility: Ubunye Engine: portable Spark pipelines for data and ML

More domains and problems

Technical leadership: Generator optimisation and streaming at Vodacom, Insurance data science: telematics, flood risk and MLOps
Geospatial machine learning: Climate forecasting and geospatial ML at IBM Research, Insurance data science: telematics, flood risk and MLOps, Machine learning for seasonal climate forecasting
Remote sensing: Climate forecasting and geospatial ML at IBM Research, Proposed: self supervised flood mapping from radar
Synthetic aperture radar: Proposed: self supervised flood mapping from radar
Telematics: Insurance data science: telematics, flood risk and MLOps, TFiltersPy: Kalman and particle filters for Python
Decision support systems: Decision support systems for municipalities at the CSIR, Generator optimisation and streaming at Vodacom, Student success analytics and recommendations at Wits
Noise induced hearing loss: Machine learning for hearing loss risk in mine workers, Mine workers threshold shift estimation via optimization algorithms for deep recurrent neural networks, Noise level policy advising system for mine workers
Occupational health and safety: Machine learning for hearing loss risk in mine workers, Mine workers threshold shift estimation via optimization algorithms for deep recurrent neural networks, Noise level policy advising system for mine workers
Telecommunications: Generator optimisation and streaming at Vodacom
Insurance: Insurance data science: telematics, flood risk and MLOps
Public sector: Decision support systems for municipalities at the CSIR
Capacity building: Kasilam: teaching township youth to build with AI
Robotics: Follow me Turtle Bot Project

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