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DrStephan Van Der Westhuizen

Senior Lecturer

Statistics And Actuarial Science

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  • Senior Lecturer
    Statistics And Actuarial Science

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I did my PhD at Wageningen University and Research (Netherlands) which focused on predictive modelling in digital soil mapping (DSM). I aimed to enhance machine learning methodologies within DSM to address key problems with soil data: (1) accounting for measurement errors with machine learning; (2) performing multivariate mapping with machine learning; (3) accounting for right-censored soil data with machine learning; (4) using data visualisation tools to better understand machine learning predictions in DSM.

After my PhD I continued to work on problems in DSM.

GRANTS

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  • POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP
    Machine learning for compositional data
    Rector’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Stellenbosch University1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Van Der Westhuizen S
  • GRANT
    Thuthuka
    National Research Foundation1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2027
    Post-PhD Track
  • GRANT
    Thuthuka
    National Research Foundation1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2023
    PhD Track
  • GRANT
    Nearest hypersphere classification : a comparison with other classification techniques
    National Research Foundation1 Dec 2014
    People funded by this grant:
    • Van der Westhuizen CS