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I am a lecturer of Statistics in the Department of Statistics at the University of Pretoria. I obtained my PhD degree in Statistics from the University of Pretoria (2024). My research interest lies at the intersection of probabilistic modelling, computational statistics and machine learning. My main research focus is on developing flexible computational and methodological techniques, in particular nonparametric mixture models, for detecting latent or hidden structure in the data. The methods I develop have been applied in energy economics, environmental economics and disease modelling.
News
- I am spending the Fall 2026 semester at Michigan State University as a scholar in the African Futures Research Leadership Program, run by the Alliance for African Partnership.
- Deep learning embedded latent class joint modelling of time-to-event and longitudinal data is published online in Statistical Methods in Medical Research.
- Three preprints on arXiv: mixtures of circular regressions (since published in Advances in Data Analysis and Classification), nonparametric contaminated Gaussian mixtures of regressions, and robust semi-parametric mixtures of linear experts.
- A modified EM-type algorithm to estimate semi-parametric mixtures of non-parametric regressions is published in Statistics and Computing.