UP alumnus ranked among top 1% of data scientists in the world

Posted on July 08, 2021

UP alumnus Dr Hossein Masoumi Karakani has been ranked among the top 1% of data scientists globally after entering the rankings of @kaggle, the world’s largest data science community.

Constructive criticism enriches and enables your scientific interaction

Posted on March 11, 2021

NAS Featured scientist: Prof Samuel Manda Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Statistics and Director of the Biostatistics Unit at the South African Medical Research Council

Welcome to NAS: Meet Dr Majika Jean Claude (JC) Malela

Posted on February 15, 2021

Welcome to NAS: Meet Dr Majika Jean Claude (JC) Malela who started his career at the University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS) on 6 January 2021.

UP graduate and mathematical statistician wins silver medal in global Kaggle competition for research prediction

Posted on December 02, 2020

Dr Hossein Masoumi Karakani, who was awarded a PhD in Mathematical Statistics by the University of Pretoria (UP) in 2020, recently finished 129th out of 2 618 teams (including single-member “teams”, like Dr Karani’s) registered globally when he took part in a Kaggle competition....

Seite Makgai shares her PhD journey

Posted on July 28, 2020

“Doing my PhD under the supervision of Prof Andriëtte Bekker and Prof Mohammed Arashi was like participating in the popular TV show, Amazing Race – which means that you better run!” This is how Dr Seite Makgai, the first African female lecturer in the Department of Statistics...

UP produces interactive app with real-time data on COVID-19 infections

Posted on April 06, 2020

A team from the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Department of Statistics in collaboration with other international universities has developed what is believed to be the first interactive app in the country that provides real-time data on COVID-19 using R-Shiny (a statistical software package).

Latest T&L@NAS Bulletin (2020) now available

Posted on February 06, 2020

Latest T&L@NAS Bulletin (2020) now available

NAS celebrates excellence in teaching

Posted on December 16, 2019

What started off as a departmental initiative grew exponentially and culminated in an awards ceremony where excellence in teaching was celebrated at Faculty level. At the last FLY@NAS event for 2019, cluster awards in all four clusters (Biological Sciences, Food and Agricultural Sciences,...