Joseph Lumbahe

MASTER'S FOCUS:
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*Advanced Software Engineering
*Big Data Analytics
*Artificial Intelligence
*Machine Vision
*Computer Security
*Cloud Computing
*Mental Wealth; Professional Life (Dissertation)

The University of East London based in the UK has 3 research groups, which are closely aligned to this degree.

These research groups are:
*Software Systems Engineering (SSE)
*Intelligent Systems (IS)
*Enterprise Computing (EC)

In SSE, we're… Show more

MASTER'S FOCUS:
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*Advanced Software Engineering
*Big Data Analytics
*Artificial Intelligence
*Machine Vision
*Computer Security
*Cloud Computing
*Mental Wealth; Professional Life (Dissertation)

The University of East London based in the UK has 3 research groups, which are closely aligned to this degree.

These research groups are:
*Software Systems Engineering (SSE)
*Intelligent Systems (IS)
*Enterprise Computing (EC)

In SSE, we're part of the European Union's anti-piracy ASPIRE Project. Also researching: security requirements & risk management, search-based software engineering and program analysis; software product lines, digital forensics studies.

In IS, we specialize in a wide range of AI based research such as:
->Machine Vision
->Machine Lip Reading
->Virtual Reality
->Neural Networks
->Activity recognition & Machine Learning
->Big Data
->Internet of Things
->Mobile Sensing & Ambient Assisted Living.

In EC, we are conducting Cloud computing energy efficiently research. Show less

Covers principles underlying computing, including the structure and nature of computers and the application of computers as tools in problem solving.

* Algorithm & Programming
* Data Structures, Algorithm Complexity & Architecture
* Operating Systems
* Computer Networks & Theory of Computation
* Human Computer Interaction
* Software Engineering
* Database Systems
* ML/DL
* Machine Learning Capstone project
* Calculus for Engineers
* Linear Algebra
*… Show more

Covers principles underlying computing, including the structure and nature of computers and the application of computers as tools in problem solving.

* Algorithm & Programming
* Data Structures, Algorithm Complexity & Architecture
* Operating Systems
* Computer Networks & Theory of Computation
* Human Computer Interaction
* Software Engineering
* Database Systems
* ML/DL
* Machine Learning Capstone project
* Calculus for Engineers
* Linear Algebra
* Information Systems Analysis & Design
* Information Systems Strategy
* Information Systems Architecture & Infrastructure

Capstone Project: Developed an IoT based system to bring a Smart Home Security solution. Various sensors were used to observe the home environment and notify users via SMS and attached picture of any recorded intrusion. A hotline is provided to contact the relevant security services. Lights were automated based on the ambient light however user had full control via their android devices.

Role: Hardware and IoT Eng. Show less

This MSc program in Financial Engineering, brings a rigorous and integrated curriculum that integrates mathematical, statistical, and computer science tools with finance theory to excel in today’s highly collaborative, fast-paced, professional environments.

The two-year program consists of nine Master courses and a Capstone Course during which a culminating project is completed. The courses are sequentially taught, building on one another and focus on applied projects.
This MSc… Show more

This MSc program in Financial Engineering, brings a rigorous and integrated curriculum that integrates mathematical, statistical, and computer science tools with finance theory to excel in today’s highly collaborative, fast-paced, professional environments.

The two-year program consists of nine Master courses and a Capstone Course during which a culminating project is completed. The courses are sequentially taught, building on one another and focus on applied projects.
This MSc perfectly combine programming, data science and the future of finance.

COURSES:

1. MScFE 560: Financial Markets
2. MScFE 610: Econometrics
3. MScFE 620: Discrete-time Stochastic Processes
4. MScFE 622: Continuous-time Stochastic Processes
5. MScFE 630: Computational Finance
6. MScFE 640: Portfolio Theory and Asset Pricing
7. MScFE 650: Machine Learning
8. MScFE 660: Case Studies
9. MScFE 670: Data Feeds and Technology
10. MScFE 690: Capstone Project Show less

Electrical and Computer Engineering is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering which combines a fundamental study in electrical engineering with computing.

Apart from receiving a thorough grounding in both electrical engineering and computing, the Electrical and Computer Engineering student at UCT gains a foundation of understanding in physical science, advanced engineering mathematics, microcomputer technology and systematic engineering design. Electrical and Computer engineers in… Show more

Electrical and Computer Engineering is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering which combines a fundamental study in electrical engineering with computing.

Apart from receiving a thorough grounding in both electrical engineering and computing, the Electrical and Computer Engineering student at UCT gains a foundation of understanding in physical science, advanced engineering mathematics, microcomputer technology and systematic engineering design. Electrical and Computer engineers in industry generally possesses expertise across a broad range of engineering disciplines, and are especially well-suited to a career in networking, control & instrumentation, power systems or telecommunications. Electrical and Computer engineers may also become involved in diverse fields such as bio-medical engineering, machine vision, power electronics and machines, or signal and image processing. Show less

# A+: The A+ certification ensures that the successful candidate has the important knowledge and skills necessary to manage, maintain, troubleshoot, install, operate and configure office computing equipment, describe computing technologies, basic principles, adhere to professional standards, and use testing tools.

# Networking (N+): The Network+ certification ensures that the successful candidate has the important knowledge and skills necessary to manage, maintain, troubleshoot, install,… Show more

# A+: The A+ certification ensures that the successful candidate has the important knowledge and skills necessary to manage, maintain, troubleshoot, install, operate and configure office computing equipment, describe computing technologies, basic principles, adhere to professional standards, and use testing tools.

# Networking (N+): The Network+ certification ensures that the successful candidate has the important knowledge and skills necessary to manage, maintain, troubleshoot, install, operate and configure basic network infrastructure, describe networking technologies, basic design principles, and adhere to wiring standards and use testing tools. Show less

September - June
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# School with Belgian curriculum
# Broad advanced knowledge in Mathematics, Physics, IT, Chemistry, Biology, in preparation for Higher education at University.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
* Create extensive project plans and schedules.
* Be able to administer project resources.
* Develop allocation/coordination resources, and interface with management.
* Develop tools and techniques of project management software.
* Gain skills in the human and organizational implications of change.

OBECTIVES:
* Illustrate an overview of concepts in project management in organizational context.
* Examine the aspects of the most important project… Show more

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
* Create extensive project plans and schedules.
* Be able to administer project resources.
* Develop allocation/coordination resources, and interface with management.
* Develop tools and techniques of project management software.
* Gain skills in the human and organizational implications of change.

OBECTIVES:
* Illustrate an overview of concepts in project management in organizational context.
* Examine the aspects of the most important project management’s knowledge concepts.
* Understand the significance of Project Life Cycles.
* Analyze the significance of teamwork and the part of each member when conducting a project.
* Explore the importance of appropriate project management and administration, as well as the vitality of documentation. Show less

This program builds on your IT foundations and is designed to teach you how to program with Python and how to use Python to automate common system tasks. You also learn to use Git and GitHub, troubleshoot and debug complex problems, and apply automation at scale by using configuration management and the Cloud.
This certificate is completed in about 6 months and is designed to prepare you for a variety of roles in IT, like more advanced IT Support Specialist or Junior Systems Administrator… Show more

This program builds on your IT foundations and is designed to teach you how to program with Python and how to use Python to automate common system tasks. You also learn to use Git and GitHub, troubleshoot and debug complex problems, and apply automation at scale by using configuration management and the Cloud.
This certificate is completed in about 6 months and is designed to prepare you for a variety of roles in IT, like more advanced IT Support Specialist or Junior Systems Administrator positions.

COVERED CONCEPTS:
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* Python programming
* Operating System interaction using Python
* Git and GitHub
* Troubleshooting and Debugging Technicques
* Configuration Management and the Cloud
* Automating Complex Real-World Tasks with Python

I use data serialization to turn in-memory objects into messages that can be sent to other programs. My program will send messages across the network to Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) offered by other programs. Show less

WEB DEVELOPMENT:
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* Creating Web pages
* JavaScript fundamentals
* Setting up a web server
* Programming Fundamentals
* PHP & Backend Code
* PHP & Databases
# Putting it all together

ADVANCED WEB DEVELOPMENT:
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* Object-Oriented JavaScript
* JQuery
* AJAX & Event-Handling
* Object-Oriented PHP
* Cookies & PHP Sessions
* Error Handling
* PHP & Security
* Relational Database… Show more

WEB DEVELOPMENT:
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* Creating Web pages
* JavaScript fundamentals
* Setting up a web server
* Programming Fundamentals
* PHP & Backend Code
* PHP & Databases
# Putting it all together

ADVANCED WEB DEVELOPMENT:
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* Object-Oriented JavaScript
* JQuery
* AJAX & Event-Handling
* Object-Oriented PHP
* Cookies & PHP Sessions
* Error Handling
* PHP & Security
* Relational Database Management Systems
* Advanced SQL
* Databases & Security
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IT systems have the potential to impact positively on both business and employee performance, yet in the past there has been a tendency to create systems and processes that are based on poor requirements specifications, and these systems and processes ultimately fail. This Business Systems Analysis course is aimed at arming the business systems analyst with the perfect skill set. The course targets business architects, data analysts, systems analysts, software auditors, system developers, IT… Show more

IT systems have the potential to impact positively on both business and employee performance, yet in the past there has been a tendency to create systems and processes that are based on poor requirements specifications, and these systems and processes ultimately fail. This Business Systems Analysis course is aimed at arming the business systems analyst with the perfect skill set. The course targets business architects, data analysts, systems analysts, software auditors, system developers, IT and management consultants, users, contractors, and aspiring business and systems analysts.

##This course is endorsed by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA). Show less

#MACHINE LEARNING STRATEGIES
•No Free-lunch Rule
•Re-sampling for Classifiers Testing
•Classifiers Design and Validation

#INTRODUCTION TO MACHINE LEARNING AND PATTERN RECOGNITION
•Bayes rule
•Statistics and linear algebra

# PARAMETRIC CLASSIFIERS
•Likelihood Ratio
•Discriminant Functions and Surfaces
•Linear Classifiers
•Quadratic Classifiers

#NON-PARAMETRIC CLASSIFIERS
•k-NN Classifiers

#ANN & SUPPORT VECTOR… Show more

#MACHINE LEARNING STRATEGIES
•No Free-lunch Rule
•Re-sampling for Classifiers Testing
•Classifiers Design and Validation

#INTRODUCTION TO MACHINE LEARNING AND PATTERN RECOGNITION
•Bayes rule
•Statistics and linear algebra

# PARAMETRIC CLASSIFIERS
•Likelihood Ratio
•Discriminant Functions and Surfaces
•Linear Classifiers
•Quadratic Classifiers

#NON-PARAMETRIC CLASSIFIERS
•k-NN Classifiers

#ANN & SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES
•Perceptron
•Error Back-propagation and network regularization
•Kernel Methods
•Support Vector Machines

#INTRODUCTION TO TENSORFLOW
•Data flow graphs (DFG) way of coding
•Basic model-building in Tensorflow
•Data handling

#DEEP LEARNING
•Convolutional Neural Networks
•Recursive Neural Networks

PS:
•Registered with the Engineering Council of South Africa and CPD points awarded.
•ECSA course code is: UCTIML17

COURSE CONVENOR: A/Prof. Amit Kumbar Mishra (Statistical Signal Processing & Radar System Development)
T/A: Mr. Jarryd Son (Cognitive Robotics) Show less

The UWC Venture Accelerator is the UWC’s centre for innovation and entrepreneurship starter programme for entrepreneurs. Co-created by MASHAURI and the University of the Western Cape to teach, support entrepreneurs and to give entrepreneurs the necessary knowledge, skills and guidance to get going on the journey.

COORDINATORS:

- SIMON GIFFORD (CEO and co-founder of Mashauri)
- APOORV BAMBA (Founder of Startup Safari)
- CLINT DAVIES (PhD [Entrepreneurship] candidate at the… Show more

The UWC Venture Accelerator is the UWC’s centre for innovation and entrepreneurship starter programme for entrepreneurs. Co-created by MASHAURI and the University of the Western Cape to teach, support entrepreneurs and to give entrepreneurs the necessary knowledge, skills and guidance to get going on the journey.

COORDINATORS:

- SIMON GIFFORD (CEO and co-founder of Mashauri)
- APOORV BAMBA (Founder of Startup Safari)
- CLINT DAVIES (PhD [Entrepreneurship] candidate at the University of Pretoria.)
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# CSCP1DB - C++ AS SECOND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE: *Control constructs, *Procedural Abstraction and Functions, *I/O Streams Object and Classes, *Dynamic memory allocation, *Inheritance and Polymorphism, *Recursion, *Exception Handling, *Object-oriented programming, *Templates and Standard Template Library,etc...) 

# CSJA1DP - JAVA PROGRAMMING: Practical programming experience ( Structured programming, Object-oriented programming, GUI, Applets, Stand-alone applications, Dynamic Dta… Show more

# CSCP1DB - C++ AS SECOND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE: *Control constructs, *Procedural Abstraction and Functions, *I/O Streams Object and Classes, *Dynamic memory allocation, *Inheritance and Polymorphism, *Recursion, *Exception Handling, *Object-oriented programming, *Templates and Standard Template Library,etc...) 

# CSJA1DP - JAVA PROGRAMMING: Practical programming experience ( Structured programming, Object-oriented programming, GUI, Applets, Stand-alone applications, Dynamic Dta Structures and Generics, Streams, Recursion, Binary File I/O and Networking,etc...)

# CSNW1W8 - COMPUTER NETWORKS MODULE 1: Protocols, topologies, hardware and network design ( TCP/IP Networking, Wireless transmission, etc...)

# CSNW2WA - COMPUTER NETWORKS MODULE 2: Network config (VN and Remote Access, VoIP, etc...)       
   
# CSTC1WW - DESIGNING & IMPLEMENTING TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS: *Data Networks, *Signals, *Multiplexing and Compression, *Security, *Error detection and correction,etc...) Show less

Successfully selected and enrolled as one of the first Global 2000 Qiskit community members this summer.
Diving into Quantum Computing through daily learnings and implementation lab sessions on quantum programming using Qiskit. Interactive and vibrant community set up to collaborate with many other young scientist and IBM Quantum mentors to solve problems.

APPLIED CONCEPTS:
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* MULTIPLE QUBITS & QUANTUM STATES
* ENTANGLEMENT
* QUANTUM… Show more

Successfully selected and enrolled as one of the first Global 2000 Qiskit community members this summer.
Diving into Quantum Computing through daily learnings and implementation lab sessions on quantum programming using Qiskit. Interactive and vibrant community set up to collaborate with many other young scientist and IBM Quantum mentors to solve problems.

APPLIED CONCEPTS:
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* MULTIPLE QUBITS & QUANTUM STATES
* ENTANGLEMENT
* QUANTUM PROTOCOLS & ALGORITHMS
* QUANTUM FOURIER TRANSFORM & QUANTUM PHASE ESTIMATION
* APPLIED SHOR’S ALGORITHM
* QUANTUM HARDWARE USING QUANTUM CIRCUITS (Quantum Error Correction using Repetition Codes)
* QUANTUM HARDWARE USING MICROWAVE PULSES (Readout and Circuit QED, Calibrating a Qubit Frequency and Readout)
* SUPERCONDUCTING QUBITS (Quantizing a Harmonic Oscillator, Josephson Junctions)
* QUANTUM CHEMISTRY
* SIMULATING MOLECULES USING VQE Show less

AI on the Jetson Nano:
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* Explored how to build a deep learning classification project with computer vision models using an NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit.

* Technologies: PyTorch, Jetson Nano

Video Analytics on Jetson Nano with DeepStream:
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*Built DeepStream application to annotate video streams using object detection and classification networks.

*… Show more

AI on the Jetson Nano:
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* Explored how to build a deep learning classification project with computer vision models using an NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit.

* Technologies: PyTorch, Jetson Nano

Video Analytics on Jetson Nano with DeepStream:
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*Built DeepStream application to annotate video streams using object detection and classification networks.

* Technologies: DeepStream, TensorRT, Jetson Nano

Intro to AI in the Data Center:
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* Explored an introduction to AI, GPU computing, NVIDIA AI software architecture, and how to implement and scale AI workloads in the data center. Understandood how AI is transforming society and how to deploy GPU computing to the data center to facilitate this transformation.

* Technologies: Artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, GPU hardware and software Show less

DESCRIPTION:
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A hands-on course, where I learnt the basics of deep learning by training and deploying neural networks as well as using CUDA C/C++ tools.
# The completion of this course, made me able to start solving my own problems with deep learning.

LEARNT :
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* Identify the ingredients required to start a Deep Learning project
* Train a deep neural network to correctly classify images it has never seen before
* Deploy deep neural networks into applications
*… Show more

DESCRIPTION:
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A hands-on course, where I learnt the basics of deep learning by training and deploying neural networks as well as using CUDA C/C++ tools.
# The completion of this course, made me able to start solving my own problems with deep learning.

LEARNT :
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* Identify the ingredients required to start a Deep Learning project
* Train a deep neural network to correctly classify images it has never seen before
* Deploy deep neural networks into applications
* Identify techniques for improving the performance of deep learning applications
* Assess the types of problems that are candidates for deep learning
* Modify neural networks to change their behavior Show less