Spatial Inequities of Heat Vulnerability: Preliminary Findings from African Urban Centers
- Craig Mahlasi
- Sibusisiwe Makhanya
- et al.
- 2023
- AGU Fall 2023
Bio
Sibusisiwe is a Research Manager & Leader at IBM Research Africa (Johannesburg), with teams working on advances in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and the applications of artificial intelligence in accelerating discoveries in climate science, sustainability, and health. She has a technical background in statistics, with a PhD in Spatial Statistics and continues to have research interest in applied statistical learning, risk, causal modelling and trustworthy AI. General topics of interest include climate, sustainability & environmental health.
Publications
Urban Heat Island Estimation with Machine Learning
- Muaaz Bhamjee
- Zaheed Gaffoor
- et al.
- 2023
- DS-I Africa Consortium Meeting 2023
Spatial Inequities of Heat Vulnerability: Preliminary Findings from African Urban Centers
- Craig Mahlasi
- Sibusisiwe Makhanya
- et al.
- 2023
- DS-I Africa Consortium Meeting 2023
CHaracterising Effects of Air Quality In Maternal, Newborn and Child Health: The CHEAQI-MNCH Research Project: an impact and attribution study
- Tatenda Makanga
- Tamara Rosemary Govindasamy
- et al.
- 2023
- DS-I Africa Consortium Meeting 2023
S2S Extreme Weather Featurization: A Global Skill Assessment Study
- Zubeida Patel
- Gciniwe Simphiwe Baloyi
- et al.
- 2022
- EGU 2022
Modelling Representative Population Mobility for COVID-19 Spatial Transmission in South Africa
- A. Potgieter
- I.N. Fabris-Rotelli
- et al.
- 2021
- Frontiers in Big Data
Long-Range Seasonal Forecasting of 2m Temperature with Machine Learning
- Etienne Eben Vos
- Ashley Daniel Gritzman
- et al.
- 2020
- NeurIPS 2020
Patents
- 29 Aug 2023
- ZA
- 2022/12902
- 12 Sep 2022
- US
- 11443139
Blog posts
What's Next in AI: IBM Research Africa to host virtual AI seminar series in August
NewsTšabi Molapo, Tonya Nyakeya, Sibongile Gumede, and Sibusisiwe Makhanya3 minute read- AI
Top collaborators
TG
Tamara Rosemary Govindasamy
Research Scientist
CW
Campbell Watson
Climate & Sustainability - Sr. Manager & Master Inventor
BZ
Bianca Zadrozny
STSM and Sr. Research Manager, Spatiotemporal Modeling
DS
Daniel Salles Civitarese
Research Scientist - Machine Learning and Brain-inspired Computing