Kambule Award For Best Doctoral Dissertation In Computational Sciences Presented To Stellenbosch University Student

Dr Arnu Pretorius from Stellenbosch University was awarded the Thamsanqa W. Kambule Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the computational and statistical sciences at an African university. The award was announced during the Deep Learning Indaba held in Accra, Ghana, from 3 to 9 September 2023. Dr Pretorius’s dissertation focuses on the mathematical underpinning of how neural networks behave when “noise” is introduced into the learning process. In 2018, Dr Pretorius had the opportunity to present his work at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) in Stockholm, supported by a Google Travel Grant.