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• I am the co-founder of SilicoGenesis, a TechBio company using AI/ML to speed up discovery and optimisation of therapeutic molecules such as antibodies and other biologics.
• I developed machine learning models (graph neural networks, 3D CNN's, etc.) for various tasks in computational drug discovery, such as antibody binding affinity optimisation, epitope/paratope prediction, property.
• Developed a cloud-based platform (Eve), to… Show more I am the co-founder of SilicoGenesis, a TechBio company using AI/ML to speed up discovery and optimisation of therapeutic molecules such as antibodies and other.
• Developed a cloud-based platform (Eve), to visualise antibodies, proteins, protein interactions and properties. Eve has capabilities to manage computational processing tasks (docking, binding affinity prediction.
• Developed algorithms to process and apply computation to biological data (3D structure ofproteins, sequences, etc.) and manage and curate databases of biological data. (Python, SQL). Show less

South Africa

• I am the Head of Research and Development at Learning Machines. Learning machines is a consulting firm specialising in AI/ML, data engineering and cloud services.
• Developed a full-day introductory machine learning course. Provided training to more than 800 people across countries such as South Africa, Australia, Costa Rica and Isle of Man.
• Business development - I secured contracts for our consultants with large corporate companies.
• Operational management related to client… Show more I am the Head of Research and Development at Learning Machines. Learning machines is a consulting firm specialising in AI/ML, data engineering and cloud services.
• Operational management related to client projects (work breakdowns, client interactions, etc. acrossprojects related to chatbots, survivability analysis, real-time data reporting and visualisation, AWS MLservices.
• Presented AIdeation day workshops to assist corporate companies in identifying and prioritizing projects related to machine learning in their companies and incorporating it as part of their digital strategy.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

• MyBucks was an international FinTech company providing financial services across loans and credit,banking and insurance. I was a senior data scientist for a highly-specialised Artificial Intelligence team that applied.
• Developed a conversational system / chatbot from first principles based on Natural Language Processing (NLP) to answer questions on the corporate website, with speech recognition, text-to-speech and multilingual… Show.
• Developed a conversational system / chatbot from first principles based on Natural Language Processing (NLP) to answer questions on the corporate website, with speech recognition, text-to-speech and multilingual.
• Developed an intelligent sales system to deliver custom-made business offers to prospective clients, apply intelligent sales recovery and churn prevention, with delivery through SMS and e-mail channels (Python.
• Refactored an intelligent credit scoring system that applies machine learning techniques to determine client affordability in 7 countries (Python). Show less

Founded a business that specialises in large-format printing and manufacturing of canvas and vinyl products. Developed e-commerce platforms through which the products were sold.

• I was the co-founder of URLFO - a meta search engine which visualised the relationships between a search term, its related terms and corresponding websites in graphical form.
• The website served more than 1 million unique visitors per month.
• Developed algorithms for web crawling, text extraction, natural language processing, indexing and search algorithms (Node.js / Javascript / SQL).
• Developed algorithms to model the economic value of webpages and rank them based on… Show more I was the co-founder of URLFO - a meta search engine which visualised the relationships between a search term, its related.
• Developed algorithms to model the economic value of webpages and rank them based on selection criteria (Node.js / Javascript)
• Developed website front ends and back ends (Express.js / HTML / CSS / Javascript).

• I was the co-founder and managing director of two companies focused on the vehicle industry.
• Developed and registered a provisional patent to do autonomous damage assessment of a vehicle using laser scanning technology.
• Secured contracts with insurance companies and motor dealerships to repair hail-damaged vehicles and recruited teams of contractors and technicians to execute the repairs.

South Africa

• The CSIR is the largerst R&D organisation in Africa. I was part of a small group of people conceptualising and securing funding for the Mobile Intelligent Autonomous Systems (MIAS) Emerging Research Area (ERA) in the.
• Secured office space and lab facilities (including robotics platforms, haptic devices, cameras, LIDAR systems, etc.) to establish MIAS.
• Research Group Leader for a group of about 10 people within… Show more The CSIR is the largerst R&D organisation in Africa. I was part of a small group of people conceptualising and securing funding for the Mobile.
• Research Group Leader for a group of about 10 people within the Mobile Intelligent Autonomous Systems (Robotics) research group.
• Developed computer vision / image processing algorithms for application in robotics (C++).
• Developed path planning and mapping algorithms for applications in robotics (C++).

South Africa

• I was part of the Complex Netted and Adaptive Systems research group in the CSIR's Defencetek business unit. The research groups' primary focus was to develop tooling used in information warfare and cyber security.
• Lead a small team of software developers and researchers in the development of an Information Warfare Simulator (C#).
• Developed penetration tools for testing cyber security and vulnerabilities in computer systems (C++).
• Responsible for conceptualisation, design… Show more I was part of the Complex Netted and Adaptive Systems research group in the CSIR's Defencetek business unit. The research groups' primary focus was to develop.
• Responsible for conceptualisation, design, implementation and testing of software systems, interacting with clients, creating documentation and defining work for team members. Show less

South Africa

• I was part of the Mathematical and Computational Modelling research group in the CSIR's Defencetek business unit. The research groups' primary focus was to develop technology demonstrators in the defence industry (the.
• Developed simulation systems for the defence industry, including computer models of weapon systems and simulation backends (C/C++).
• Developed visualisation and planning tools used in… Show more I was part of the Mathematical and Computational Modelling research group in the CSIR's Defencetek business unit. The research groups' primary focus was to.
• Developed visualisation and planning tools used in conjunction with the simulation systems (C#, VisualBasic.net)
• Developed a Bayesian Mail Classification System for spam detection.
• Developed a Web Alert and Notification System to detect fires from satellite imagery.

• I founded BizPages (www.bizpages.co.za) in 2003. BizPages is a web directoy providing listing of companies providing services and products in South Africa.
• Grew the website to one of the top 5 business web directories in South Africa.
• Full stack development of website (PHP, Javascript, HTML/CSS, SQL).

• I bravely took on tutoring students while being a student myself!
• Tutored first and second year students in a variety of mathematical subjects.
• Supervision during exams and tests and marking of exam papers.
• Management of the mathematics computer laboratory.

Master Of Engineering, Computer Engineering, Cum Laude

I the field of bioinformatics, I developed a pattern recognition technique based on statistical analysis, to predict protein secondary.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng. Hons.), Computer Engineering, Cum Laude

Final year subjects: Pattern recognition, software management and economics, information security, secure e-commerce.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering, Cum Laude

Awards: Winner of the CSIR Defencetek "Bursar/Intern of the year" award (2001). Final year subjects: Artificial Intelligence.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Computational Mathematics, Cum Laude

Awards: School of Mathematics prizes for the best second and final year B.Sc. (Mathematics) student at the University of Pretoria. Final.