Awards

• Andrew Oosthuizen received the Vice-Chancellor Award 2023, for his Masters dissertation ‘Channel estimation and equalisation using generative adversarial networks’.
• Walter Heymans was the winner of the S2A3 Award 2022, for his Master's dissertation 'Automatic speech recognition on poor quality audio using generative adversarial networks' (Read more).
• Jacques Beukes was awarded the Vice-Chancellor Award 2021, for his Masters dissertation 'Interpretability of deep neural networks for SYM-H prediction' (Read more).
• Andrew Oosthuizen and co-authors won the Best Paper Award at SATNAC 2021, for their paper 'Exploring CNN-Based Automatic Modulation Classification Using Small Modulation Sets'.
• PhD student Tian Theunissen received an AAAI Student Scholarship to attend AAAI 2020, New York.

News and events

• Machine and deep learning are a MUST at the North-West University, 2022 (Read more).
• Marelie Davel participates in Women in Mathematical Sciences event at Stellenbosch University, 2022 (Read more)
• Marelie Davel and Stefan Lotz co-PIs for new NITheCS research programme: “Machine Learning in support of Theoretical and Computational Sciences”.
• Deep learning students shine at NWU graduation ceremony, 2021. (Read more)
• Marelie Davel and Deshen Moodley from CAIR were the guest editors of the FAIR 2019 special issue of the South African Computer Journal, 2020.
• MuST at AAAI 2020. (Read more)
• Marelie Davel and Etienne Barnard were the editors of the 2019 Forum for Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) proceedings.
• MuST hosted the annual CAIR FAIR on 7-9 November 2018 in Hermanus. (Read more)
• MuST researcher gives an invited talk at Indiana University Bloomington. (Read more)
• From speech technology to AI: MuST elaborates on its new research focus. (Read more)

Archive

• Ulrike Janke represented South Africa at a special Interspeech session entitled "Digital revolution for under-resourced languages" in Stockholm on 23 August 2017.
• In June 2017, Marelie Davel gave an invited lecture at the Idiap research institute (Martigny, Switzerland), and acted as a PhD jury member at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne, Switzerland).
• A web-based speech transcription platform developed by the MuST team has applications for government and the private sector. (Read more)
• MuST formed part of the winning consortium of the BABEL project. (Read more)
• MuST participated in the conferring of the 1000th IT doctoral degree at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. (Read more)
• MuST research associate, Willem Basson, was the Vanderbijlpark Campus winner of the S2A3 bronze medal 2014, for his Masters dissertation 'Improving Grapheme-based speech recognition through P2G transliteration'.
• PhD student Oluwapelumi Giwa received an ISCA Travel Grant to attend Interspeech 2014, Singapore.
• Research professors Marelie Davel and Etienne Barnard received the NWU Top Technology Innovator Award 2013.
• Prof Etienne Barnard received a Google Research Award in 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2013.
• MuST hosted the Spoken Language Technology for Under-resourced Languages (SLTU) 2012 conference in Cape Town, May 2012.
• MuST co-organised the MediaEval Spoken Web Search Task in Pisa, Italy, 2011 and 2012.  
• Postdoctoral fellow, Dr Charl van Heerden was nominated as one of Mail & Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans in 2011.