Past students

Departed end 2022 academic year

• Keegan Hull:

  Research areas: AgriTech, automation, thermal modelling, IoT
  Thesis title: Thermal modelling and temperature control of grow tunnels, with generic experimental sensing and control

• Jaco du Toit:

  Research areas: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Text Classification
  Thesis title: Transformer-based Hierarchical Text Classification

• Chris Abraham:

  Research areas: Electric Vehicles, Public Transport, Hydrogen Vehicles, Renewable Energy
  Thesis title: Evaluating Electric Vehicle Technologies for Public Transport in Africa, through Simulation

• De Wet Denkema:

  Research areas: Deep Reinforcement Learning, Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning
  Thesis title: Cooperative Multi Agent Puzzle solving in complex environments

• JC Mouton:

  Research areas: Distributed Systems, Networking, Games
  Thesis title: Library for Distributed Virtual Environments using Spatial Partitioning

• Kudzai Tenderere:

  Research areas: IoT, minibus taxis, mobile money, chatbots
  Thesis title: Cashless payments for minibus taxis

• Andrew de Kock:

  Research areas: Photovoltaic, Pumped Hydro Storage, Hybrid Power Supply, Optimal Design
  Thesis title: Optimal Design of Hybrid Utility Scale PV and Pumped Hydro plants

• Alex Muthua:

  Research areas: Face recognition, infrared, highly pigmented skin
  Thesis title: Using infrared to improve face recognition of individuals with highly pigmented skin

• Werner Van der Merwe:

  Research areas: Machine Learning, Probabilistic Graphical Models, Speech Recognition
  Thesis title: A Temporal Extension of Latent Dirichlet Allocation Towards Unsupervised Acoustic Unit Discovery

• Michael Deyzel:

  Research areas: machine learning, video processing, pose estimation
  Thesis title: Marker-based and markerless pose estimation for exercise action analysis

• Kevin Eloff:

  Research areas: Language emergence, spoken communication, multi-agent reinforcement learning, language acquisition, speech processing
  Thesis title: Learning to Speak and Hear Through Multi-Agent Communication over a Continuous Acoustic Channel
  

• Dawid Pierre Labuschagne:

  Research areas: IoT, agritech, sustainability, sensor technology
  Thesis title: The development of a IoT platform for sustainable applications in developing countries

• Pieter Zietsman:

  Research areas: Internet of Things, smartwatches, Influenza-like Illnesses, detection, machine learning, COVID-19
  Thesis title: An Assessment of Wearable IoT Devices for the Early Detection and Management of Influenza-like Illnesses.