Group Profile

Students:

The Group Head, Prof Ian Craig, supervises the following students for 2017:

PhD students

Masters students

Stefan Botha (SASOL): Hybrid control of a grinding mill circuit
Ralf Kusel (SASOL): Modelling the transmission of mycobacterium tuberculosis for control purposes
Duayne Strydom (UP): (TBC)
Arno Scheepers (UP): (TBC)
Marius de Beer (Probtosol): (TBC)

International visits by students:

The map below shows the countries visited by our students for conferences and postgraduate studies.

Postgraduate studies abroad:

John Burchell attended the MIDICON course in England and Finland in April and August (2017) respectively.
Derik le Roux visited Prof A. Kugi at the Technische Universitaet Wien in Austria (Jan-April 2015), and Prof S. Skogestad at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Norway (May-June 2015).
Laurentz Olivier visited Prof B. Huang at the University of Alberta in Canada (Feb-April 2011).
Loutjie Coetzee visited Dr E. Kerrigan at Imperial College in England (2007).

Some Group Alumni:

Dr. Laurentz Olivier (PhD 2016) - Control and Instrumentation Engineer at Sasol.
Dr. Derik le Roux (PhD 2016) - Lecturer at UP.
Dr. Eben du Toit (PhD 2015) - Head of Data at Tencent Africa.
Dr. Jonathan Meyer (PhD 2015) - Process Modeling & Simulation Engineer at UCB Pharma.
Dr. Nelis Muller (PhD 2015) - Lead Engineer: Advanced Process Control & Control Critical Information Infrastructure at Sasol.
Dr. Loutjie Coetzee (PhD 2009) – Principal control engineer, Mintek.
Dr. Fernando Camisani (PhD 2003) - DPSS CSIR and NOC Chair of IFAC 2014 World Congress.
Mr. Letsane Paul Rathaba (MEng, 2004) - Railway Safety Regulator: General Manager for Safety Assurance.
Mr. Rademeyer Vermaak (MEng, 2003) - Quantitative Fund Manager at Fairtree Capital.
Dr. Ernst Scholtz (MEng, 2000) - Global R&D Strategy Manager at ABB, Zurich.
Mr. Martin Smit (MEng, 1999) - Analog Design and Layout Manager, Microchip, Phoenix AZ.

- Author jdleroux

Published by Derik le Roux