Expert panel considers pros and cons of an AI-driven Africa during LeadUP webinar

Posted on May 30, 2023

Despite the risk of job displacement, AI technology presents Africa with opportunities to leap-frog stages of development, said experts during a LeadUP webinar.

UP’s Prof Vukosi Marivate joins World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders programme

Posted on March 15, 2023

UP's Prof Vukosi Marivate, has been accepted into the Forum of Young Global Leaders, joining a global network of over 1 500 members and alumni from 120 countries who are leading governments and Fortune 500 companies.

Google grants UP over R1 million in research grants

Posted on February 15, 2023

UP has partnered with Google to create mathematical models to increase the presence of Sesotho, Setswana, isiXhosa and Sepedi on the internet.

NLP enables speakers of African languages to make better sense of our world

Posted on August 01, 2022

Prof Vukosi Marivate, Absa Chair of Data Science in the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology at the University of Pretoria, was the guest speaker at the 30th UP Expert Lecture, hosted by Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Prof Tawana Kupe, on 27 July 2022. The title of...

Championing the rights of under-represented groups in computational intelligence

Posted on June 22, 2022

Prof Nelishia Pillay has been appointed to chair the Women in Computational Intelligence (WCI) subcommittee of the global Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computational Intelligence Society (CIS).

UP awarded four SARChI chairs

Posted on June 21, 2022

“We are proud of all the recipients and look forward to their contribution to strengthening the higher education landscape and making a difference in society,” said Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Tawana Kupe.

Data science research at UP gets international recognition as academic receives Google AI Research Scholar Award for 2022

Posted on June 10, 2022

Congratulations to Dr Marivate for being awarded the GoogleAI Research Scholar for 2022 for his work on the investigation into the consolidation of learnings of language models and language tools for South African languages and beyond.

#UPGraduation2022: UP master’s graduate develops machine-learning techniques to make AI more accessible

Posted on May 04, 2022

For her thesis, UP Computer Science master’s graduate Mia Gerber developed machine-learning techniques that not only makes artificial intelligence more accessible but can also be applied to areas that are relevant to the UN’s SDGs.