My story as featured in the Faculty of Natural Sciences' Science Snapshots @UWC brochure 2018.
I am an Academic and Statistician doing research in Survey Sampling. To date my research has been centered around complex survey sampling, specifically within statistical learning, model evaluation, resampling methodology and data science.
My research output is categorised as follows:
Publications in peer-reviewed or refereed journals, including conference proceedings and research reports
Conference Presentations, both national and international
PhD (Statistics) from Stellenbosch University in 2016.
Google Scholar: h-index of 7, number of citations 178 (2025/05/01).
South African Statistical Journal reviewer since 2018.
Supervised or co-supervised 23 postgraduate research projects to date.
My research niche is Complex Survey Sampling and I co-chair the Survey Statistics Special Interest Group of SASA
Published 18 times in peer-reviewed journals or conference proceedings since 2018.
Five publications have been cited at least ten times, one of these more than 65 times.
My first PhD student graduated in 2023.
Since 2018 I have graduated 9 MSc Statistical Science students.
Part of the Masters in Data Science team that has secured approximately R24 million in bursaries for students that have solved 36 business problems for 14 companies.