Scott Hazelhurst

BScHons MSc (Witwatersrand) PhD (British Columbia)

E-mail: Scott.Hazelhurst@wits.ac.za

Previously I was in the School of Computer Science

I am also Acting Director of Wits Bioinformatics.

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Potential research projects topics for 2012.

I am currently looking for candidates for projects in cloud computing and parallel computing (with applications in bioinformatics), and a bioinformatics in diversity of African populations. There is funding for a postdoctoral fellow and a PhD candidate, and potentially for an MSc candidate.

• Computational molecular biology
• algorithms, and data structures, particularly parallelism.
• Bioinformatics (GWAS and population phylogenetics
• Fault-tolerant and distributed systems (as part of the PHDS group's projects). With some MSc students, I have worked on techniques for analysing and implementing network firewalls.
• Formal methods, verification and concurrency -- in particular symbolic trajectory evaluation.
• Social and legal implications of computing.
• Although not an active area of research work for me, I am interested in computer science education research.

Publications

References of scientific papers can be found here.

Postgraduate and honours students

• Current Postgrad students: Charl van Deventer.
• Past MSc Students: Craig Faasen, Vashti Galpin, Philip Green, Shane Morton, Gloria Aikhorin, Ndellie Mwanangulu-Massey, Raymond Sinnappan, Adi Attar, Robin Phillips, Pravesh Ranchod, Seare Araya, Benjamin Kumwenda, Dane Kennedy.

• Past honours students: students: Gavin Sinai, Keitu Motlhaga,Michael Berry, Jin Wang, Asher Lipson, Nitesh Vallabh, Rogers Sithole, Kirsten Leong, Marko Divac, Anton Fatti, Andrew Henwood, Saul Tombuk, Christian Gotschi, George Christelis, Josh Adler, Mpiti Matsoso, Charmaine Venter, John Deneys, Asher Lipson, Moshe Waisberg, Sefako Tholo, Sibongile Eland, Burcak Birinci, Greg Kempe, Sascha Mohr, Sam Hutchinson, Opeyemi Ono, Yatin Narsai, Anastasia Soseilos, Craig Sizer, Tal Even-Tov, Jarryd Chengalroyen, Stuart Venter, Victor Neiman, Louis du Plessis, Yestin Johnson, Yair Mark

Some interesting links

• You can download wcd EST Clustering system. This is an open source software package for clustering expressed sequence tags. This tool is free for download. The latest version is here.
• The Voss System is a hardware verification system including an efficient implementation of BDDs, a lazy functional language and an accurate simulator.
  • The Voss manual: Carl Seger. Voss --- A Formal Hardware Verification System User's Guide, Technical Report 93-45, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Available by anonymous ftp.
  • Some introductory tutorial (a gzipped, tarred directory including some PostScript files and some programs)

• Coach: ACM Programming Contest.
• Some hints for Apple users at Wits, and repository of Apple software

• Some LaTeX sources
• Archival material from the 1980s at Wits
• Cities I have lived: Johannesburg, Vancouver, Toulouse.
• University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
  
• University of British Columbia
  Computer Science, ISD Lab)
  Green College
• Very out of date: soc.culture.african FAQ and soc.culture.african FAQ
• Varsity Kudus Running Club
• Lenn Smith race
• Very out of date: soc.culture.south-africa FAQ, soc.culture.south-africa FAQ
• Life of Bone