Prof Dephney Mathebula-Periola (University of Fort Hare)

Colloquium
15 June 2026
Neelsie Cinema, Stellenbosch University
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Smart Crawlers for Infectious Disease Modelling: Automating Data Acquisition in the Digital Age

Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases depends on timely and high-quality data, yet current data acquisition processes remain largely manual, slow, and inefficient. This results in two major challenges: data inaccessibility (due to restrictions or delays) and data redundancy (unused or irrelevant data). Both weaken research efficiency and model reliability.
Mathematics
Data Science