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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Posted on July 14, 2020
The University of Pretoria (UP) is ranked number one in South Africa and Africa in uniRank’s list of the top universities on the continent. uniRank is the leading international higher education directory and search engine featuring reviews and rankings of over 13 000 universities and...
Posted on July 07, 2020
A study by a team led by academics at the University of Pretoria (UP) predicts that South Africans’ waning compliance with government lockdown regulations will limit their impact in curbing the COVID-19 pandemic.
Posted on April 08, 2020
A research group based at the University of Pretoria (UP) is playing its part in disseminating factual information about the novel coronavirus that the world is currently in the grip of by setting up a databank that offers users real-time updates about COVID-19.
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