Raeesa Ganey completed her BSc at the North-West University in Potchefstroom in 2011. She then began her postgraduate studies in Statistics at UCT where she completed a BComm Honours in 2012, MSc in 2014 and PhD in 2019.

Raeesa’s research are in the methods of Multivariate Data Analysis and Visualisation techniques. Her PhD looked at constructing a Principal Surface Biplot. The biplot allows for the visualization of objects together with the variables or characteristics that were observed. She extended the methodology to allow for accurate representation of nonlinearity in data, which is often a truer reflection of reality. The methodology allows applied researchers to visualize their complicated high dimensional data and reveals interesting data features. Raeesa recently became a formal collaborator to a high dimensional visualisation project in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at Stellenbosch University.

Raeesa has been employed as a Statistics Lecturer in the School of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Witwatersrand since 2015.  Once she completed her PhD, Raeesa started to play more of a leading role in her department, introducing a new course in multivariate data analysis at third year level. She now lectures Multivariate Data Analysis to both third and fourth year (Honours) statistics and actuarial science students.