About Me 💪🏽
Hi, I’m Nishai! I am 24 and I am currently a Machine Learning Engineer at Takealot.com. I am a Masters graduate in Computer Science at Wits University, where I am a member of the RAIL research lab.
I find it fascinating how machine learning algorithms are able to learn to do complex tasks. My research interests are in transfer learning and graph neural networks. I enjoy piecing together various machine learning methods with great tech to solve real problems. I live in Johannesburg, South Africa.
I consider myself focused, ambitious and creative. Besides machine learning, I love listening to music, reading, brewing coffee, travelling, meeting new people and discovering new ideas.
Education 🎓
2020 - 2021
Master of Science [MSc] Computer Science (cum laude)
Wits University, Johannesburg
2019
Bachelor of Science Honours [BSc Hons] Computer Science (cum laude)
Wits University, Johannesburg
2016 - 2018
Bachelor of Science [BSc] Computer Science (cum laude)
Wits University, Johannesburg
Experience 💼
Mar 2021 - present
Machine Learning Engineer
Takealot.com, Johannesburg (Remote)
Sep 2019 - Dec 2020
Freelance Developer
Feb 2019 - Dec 2020
Computer Science Tutor
Wits University, Johannesburg
July 2018
Intern Developer
Retro Rabbit, Johannesburg
Research 🔬
2022
Investigating Transfer Learning in Graph Neural Networks - Nishai Kooverjee, Steven James, Terence van Zyl
Submitted to MDPI Electronics Special Issue: Graph Machine Learning
2021
How Does Relational Knowledge Generalise? An Analysis of Transfer Learning for Graph Neural Networks
Master’s Dissertation
2020
Inter-and Intra-domain Knowledge Transfer for Related Tasks in Deep Character Recognition - Nishai Kooverjee, Steven James, Terence van Zyl
IEEE SAUPEC/RobMech/PRASA 2020