ASAQS Board Member - Danie Hoffman

Posted on June 22, 2022

Danie Hoffman, a senior lecturer at the Department of Construction Economics, has been re-elected as a general board member of the Association of South African Quantity Surveyors (ASAQS).

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).

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

Posted on June 21, 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.

Congratulations to both Profs Chirwa and Daramola for being two of the nine finalists from UP nominated for THE 24th NSTF-SOUTH32 AWARDS 2021/2022.

Posted on June 14, 2022

The NSTF-South32 Awards is the flagship project of the NSTF, initiated in 1998, as the first national science award of its kind in the country. The Awards not only bring important national recognition to the deserving established scientists, research managers, data stewards, engineers,...

Nine UP academics nominated for NSTF/South32 Awards, SA’s ‘Science Oscars’

Posted on June 09, 2022

Earlier this month, the National Science and Technology Forum announced the finalists for this year’s NSTF-South32 Awards. UP congratulates and celebrates nine of our own researchers who have been nominated!

#UPGraduation2022: UP honours Gold Fields CEO Chris Griffith with its Chancellor’s Medal

Posted on June 09, 2022

CEO of Gold Fields and UP alumnus Chris Griffith has been awarded the Chancellor’s Medal, which recognises an individual’s achievements and contributions to society.

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

Posted on May 23, 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.

Gold Fields’ CEO receives Chancellor’s Medal from the University of Pretoria

Posted on May 23, 2022

The University of Pretoria’s Department of Mining Engineering, in the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology (EBIT), is proud to announce that the contribution to society of Chris Griffith, CEO of Gold Fields and a loyal alumnus of the Department, was...