Masters and Doctoral Scholars

If you are interested in studying within the HIKER Group towards the masters or doctoral degrees, please, get in touch with Dr Kuda Dube at Massey University or one of the HIKER Group members at other institutions.

Current doctoral scholars

At least one member of the HIKER Group is currently involved in supervising the following students working on research projects:

Ngoni Zanamwe, PhD Candidate:

Manipulation of Knowledge Incorporated in Evolutionary Computation: The Meal Planning Problem in Food and Nutrition Guideline-Based Therapy 

William Wilson, PhD Candidate:

Quality improvement in complex adaptive social systems: application and evaluation of contemporary techniques in quality management.

Saman Lawe, PhD Candidate:

Traffic flow control and optimisation.

Farayi Kambarami, PhD Candidate:

Computational language model and algorithms for supporting text processing in agglutinative languages of Southern Africa

Ravitesh Mishra, PhD Candidate

Cloud Internet of Things Framework for Real-Time Task Performance in Healthcare/Animal Management

Current MPhil Scholars

At least one member of the HIKER Group is currently involved in supervising the following students working on research projects:

Farayi Kambarami, MPhil Candidate (completing):

Agglutinative Language Model for Spell-checking: The Case for the Shona Language Spell-checker

Current Masters Scholars

At least one member of the HIKER Group is currently involved in supervising the following students working on research projects:

Thembelani Ncube, MSc Candidate:

Migration of the Live Virtual Machines: Optimising the Pre-copy Live VM Migration Algorithm

Gibson Mhlanga, MSc Candidate:

The ECA Rule Paradigm for the Cloud Internet of Things (Cloud IoT)

Maciej Grzegorz Tarsa, MSc Candidate:

Knowledge-intensive methods for realistic synthetic data generation

Recent and Past Graduates

PhD Graduates

At least one member of the HIKER Group was involved in supervising research projects that led to the following doctoral degree completions:

Tatenda Kavhu, PhD, 2021:

Adaptive user-centric recommendations: A holistic user-context aware recommendation algorithm

Scott McLachlan, PhD, 2020:

Health Information Standardisation as a basis for Learning Health Systems

Stephen Lean, PhD, 2014

A computational approach to primary healthcare information quality indicators.

MPhil Graduates

At least one member of the HIKER Group was involved in supervising research projects that led to the following MPhil degree completions:

Scott McLachlan, MPhil, 2017

Realism in Synthetic Data Generation

Masters Graduates

At least one member of the HIKER Group was involved in supervising research projects that led to the following masters degree completions:

Yvonne Choi, Master of Health Sciences in Health Informatics, 2020:

A Flexible, Longitudinal and Surrogate Consent Model: Consent of Infants for Neonatal Secondary-use research (CoINS). 

Shumirai Mutasa, MSc, 2019

Machine Learning Based Intrusion Detection in Cloud IoT Edge Computing Devices

Richard Sidimeli, MSc, 2018

Monitoring and controlling randomly moving objects in a bounded region: Case study on monitory and controlling farm animals within a virtual fence using the Cloud Internet of Things Paradigm

Adel Abdulrahman Khwaji, MScInfSc, 2016

EHRs at King Fahad Specialist Hospital : an overview of professionals’ perspectives on the use of biometric patient identification for privacy and confidentiality, taking into consideration culture and religion