Kushatha Ntwaetsile

Wife, mother, daughter, sister, researcher, data scientist in the making

[Leonardo @LeonardoDeBtc]

Earlier on in the astrophysics sessions , Dr. Kushatha Ntwaetsile (@KushathaN) & Boitumelo Gaolape (@Bgaolape) presented "The Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy (DARA) Project: Overview and Experiences." 🌍🔭
@richardpmann @SunbirdAI
#DARA #IndabaXUG2024

[Anna Scaife @radastrat]

An historic achievement by @KushathaN and we’re immensely proud that @DARABigData could be part of her story ✨📡💻

You can read more about Kush’s research and her ambitions for the future here:

https://t.co/mrnVJqrNVD

@NewtonFund @STFC_Matters @SKA_Africa @SKAO @biustbw

[Jim Geach @jgeach]

Beyond proud to be presenting Kush at graduation today - Botswana's first astrophysics PhD!

Congratulations Dr Ntwaetsile!

@UniofHerts @I_Hert_Space

https://t.co/yyptjRoZTc

[Mmegi @MmegiOnline]

Tsamaya native, Kushatha Ntwaetsile, is the first Motswana to obtain a PhD in Astrophysics. Employed at BIUST, she is currently working on Botswana’s contribution to one of the world’s largest astronomy projects. The 33-year old spoke to @MboBW https://t.co/v4kdHvSY3N

[DARA Big Data @DARABigData]

Great news to end the week! Our former PhD student Kushatha Ntwaetsile just started work as a Software & Data Processing Engineer, working on the Botswana contribution to the SKA Telescope! Kush's research involved classification of astronomical surveys using #MachineLearning 📡

[DARA Big Data @DARABigData]

Another @DARABigData PhD student has just passed their viva; join us in congratulating Dr Kushatha Ntwaetsile! 🎓

Kushatha has been researching #MachineLearning classifications for astronomical surveys, read more here; https://t.co/TkVMFftktU

Well done Kush, we're very proud!👏

[Jim Geach @jgeach]

Proud supervisor moment: please welcome Dr @KushathaN who has just passed her PhD viva!

@UniofHerts @I_Hert_Space @DARABigData @dara_project

[Kushatha Ntwaetsile @KushathaN]

@DARABigData @Eddie3x @StirUni @NewtonFund @SussexUni @AstroSeb @PedramRowhani @jgeach @STFC_Matters Congratulations Dr Salakpi👏

[DARA Big Data @DARABigData]

Are you in #Africa & interested in #DataScience? A free 3-day online Women in Data Science event will take place March 22. The 1st day’s plenary session is open to all, followed by a 2-day #hackathon (restrictions apply). See link for info & registration; https://t.co/s6aGs7ldLx

[DARA Big Data @DARABigData]

Meet Dr Salakpi!🎓Our student Edward @Eddie3x has just passed his viva, becoming the 3rd @DARABigData PhD graduate! His work uses #BigData & #remotesensing to predict the impact of climate on agriculture. Huge congrats Eddie & good luck with your new postdoc role at @StirUni! 👏

[DARA Big Data @DARABigData]

This video features young Africans who have taken part in the DARA Big Data programme, as postgraduate students, workshop participants, policy fellows & tutors 💻👩🏿‍💻

We are grateful to them for their participation & to all those who have supported @darabigdata.

#BigData #Africa

[DARA Big Data @DARABigData]

Appearing in this video are @KushathaN, @Eddie3x, @chelmis3_, @PrincyTahina, @ZHosenie, @RamiroSaide, @lamechthinkbig, @NgongaEmmanuel, @SymonSimeon & Alexander Kipronoh. They represent all 8 African @SKAO partnership countries.
Read more about them here;https://t.co/wW5krSDBUm

[DARA Big Data @DARABigData]

Our PhD student Kushatha @KushathaN is giving a talk next Thurs 28 Oct for the Astronomical Society of Botswana. She will talk about her work on galaxy classification using #MachineLearning

This is a virtual talk, all are welcome. Full details on flyer below.
#BigData #astronomy

[DARA Big Data @DARABigData]

2/4 Zafiirah Hosenie @ZHosenie, from Mauritius, is a @UoMPhysics PhD student & author of several papers. Her studies focus on astronomical classification, building both her own pipeline & a #CNN algorithm to detect FRBs #BlackInAstroWeek2021 #AstroWorld

https://t.co/kXgQ1TtZnU

[DARA Big Data @DARABigData]

4/4 Kushatha Ntwaetsile @KushathaN from Botswana is a former computer scientist turned astronomer.
She is studying for a PhD at @UniofHerts, using #MachineLearning to automatically classify new & unseen galaxies #BlackInAstroWeek2021 #AstroWorld

https://t.co/TkVMFftktU

[DARA Big Data @DARABigData]

Congratulations to @lamechthinkbig, who successfully passed his viva yesterday and is now DARA Big Data's first PhD graduate! 👨🏾‍🎓

Lameck has been studying image data mining to analyse radiotherapy treated tumours. Well done Dr Amugongo, we're very proud! 🥂

#BigData @NewtonFund

[Kushatha Ntwaetsile @KushathaN]

@DARABigData @lamechthinkbig @NewtonFund Wooow congrats Lameck

[DARA Big Data @DARABigData]

Our PhD student Kushatha @KushathaN has had a paper accepted in @RAS_Journals, looking at the use of Haralick features in automated classification of radio galaxies✨ Full paper on link below.

Congrats Kush! @NewtonFund @jgeach #BigData #MachineLearning

https://t.co/Hxv5gAyzxM

[Kushatha Ntwaetsile @KushathaN]

@sallyemmacooper @DARABigData Thank you very much Sally. Its sad we never met but hopefully we will meet in future.

[DARA Big Data @DARABigData]

'I used supervised machine learning techniques to predict the stock market using social media data, that's where my interest in #DataScience really began'

Our PhD student @KushathaN now uses #MachineLearning to classify astro #BigData, read more below!💫

https://t.co/TkVMFftktU