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Katherine Malan joined the Department of Decision Sciences at UNISA as a senior lecturer in 2016. She received her BSc (Computer Science & Mathematics), BSc Hons (Computer Science) and MSc (Computer Science) from the University of Cape Town and her PhD from the University of Pretoria in 2014. She has 20 years' lecturing experience in Computer Science at three different South African universities and has co-authored two programming textbooks. She currently holds a National Research Foundation C1 rating for research (2019 - 2024).

Her research interests include:

  • fitness landscape analysis, in particular the analysis of optimisation problems in relation to population-based (mostly nature-inspired) algorithm performance, and
  • the application of computational intelligence techniques to real-world optimisation and data mining problems.

If you are interested in postgraduate studies, see Supervision.

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