Professor

B.Eng (University of Pretoria)
M.Eng (University of Pretoria, cum laude)
Ph.D (University of Cambridge, England)
Pr.Eng (Engineering Council of South Africa)

• SMIEEE
• ECSA - Professional Engineer

Group Head: Signal Processing and Telecommunications

Co-chair: Naspers Research Chair in Machine Learning

(held jointly with Prof Nelisha Pillay, Department of Computer Science)

Former Principal Researcher: CSIR.

2020, 2021 - General co-chair: 2020,2021 International Conference of Information Fusion

2017 - General Chair Conference Bid Committee: General chair of the bid committee to host the 2020 International Conference of Information Fusion in Sun City, South Africa. The bid was presented at the 20^th International Conference of Information Fusion, 2017, Xi’an, China

2016 - Programme Committee, 9th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems.

2016 - Session Chair, 19th International Conference of Information Fusion.

2015 - Conference Technical Chair, 2015 IEEE Radar Conference.

2015 - Session Chair, 2015 IEEE Radar Conference.

2015 - Session Chair, 18th International Conference of Information Fusion.

2015 - Conference Organising Committee: International Conference / Web Conference titled “Methods and applications of satellite SAR in the maritime domain” Sourced USD30,000 from the US Office of Naval Research to host the conference in Cape Town at UCT, February 2015 in collaboration with Prof Mike Inggs.

2008-2009 - Former Director: CeTEIS Telkom Centre of Excellence

Undergraduate

• Digital Signal Processing (4th year)
• Digital Communication systems (3rd year)
• Rapid Prototyping for Digital Systems (2nd year)
• Electricity and Electronics (1st year)
• ERA284 Computer Architecture
• EIR221 Electrical Engineering / Elektriese Ingenieurswese
• EMS310 Modulation Systems
• EBN122 Electricity and Electronics

• ENB732 Numerical Bayesian Methods
• EIT732 Information Fusion

Statistical Signal Processing, Digital Communications, Data and Information fusion, Estimation and Detection, Model Predictive Control, Numerical Bayesian Methods, Machine Learning, Multi-sensor and Multi-Target Tracking, Fault and Anomaly Detection.

Application Areas

Telecommunications, Defence and Security, Machine Condition Monitoring, Actuarial and Financial Mathematics, Cellular and Molecular Medicine

• Radar and Electronic Warfare (REW), Defence, Peace, Safety and Security (DPSS), CSIR, Pretoria South Africa
• Dr Gregor Pavlin, Thales Research and Technology, Delft, Netherlands
• Prof Thia Kirubarajan, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
• Prof. Paulo Costa, George Mason University, VA, USA
• Prof. Kathryn Laskey, George Mason University, VA, USA
• Dr. Anne-Laure Jousselme,  NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE), La Spezia (Italy)
• Dr. Pierre Cilliers at the South African National Space Agency (SANSA), Hermanus, Western Cape
• Prof. S.J. Godsill, Signal Processing Group, University of Cambridge, UK

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Awards

2017: Best paper of 2016, Actuarial Society of South Africa

2016: Established Researcher Award, DPSS, CSIR

Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering
Engineering III Building, 7-54
Cnr Lynnwood and University Roads
University of Pretoria
Pretoria
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