Professor Nelishia Pillay Recognized Among World’s Top 2% of Scientists

Posted on December 11, 2024

In a remarkable achievement, Professor Nelishia Pillay has been named among the world’s top 2% of scientists, as listed by Stanford University. This prestigious recognition highlights her significant contributions to the global scientific community, particularly in the field of...

Celebrating Excellence: CS Staff Shine with Improved NRF Ratings and Prestigious Awards

Posted on December 10, 2024

The Department of Computer Science proudly recognizes and celebrates the remarkable achievements of its esteemed staff who have recently enhanced their National Research Foundation (NRF) ratings and received prestigious awards. These accolades prove the department’s commitment to fostering...

Tired of being lost in translation? - What if we had language without borders?

Posted on November 15, 2024

Code-switching is a common linguistic practice in multilingual cultures where people switch between languages in a single discourse. Most African languages are under-represented in recent natural language processing technologies such as ChatGPT. It is imperative to move towards an equitable...

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.

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.

Eight UP academics and science centre Sci-Enza selected as finalists for NSTF-South32 Awards

Posted on June 03, 2021

Congratulations to the eight UP academics and the University’s science centre, Sci-Enza, for being selected as finalists in the 2020/2021 National Science and Technology Forum’s NSTF-South32 Awards.

UP’s Dr Vukosi Marivate part of team that wins inaugural Wikimedia Foundation Research Award

Posted on May 18, 2021

Masakhane Natural Language Processing research project led by UP’s Dr Marivate was a joint winner of the inaugural Wikimedia Foundation Research Award for work which will reshape digital usability of African languages.