Group head
Name:	Prof Pieter de Villiers
E-mail:	[email protected]
Telephone:	012 420 2872

 

A brief description of research activities:

The Signal Processing and Telecommunications Group, performs research in general signal processing, data fusion as well as engineering applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence. In the field of telecommunications, the research focus is on information theory, broadband wireless and fixed access, network planning and services. 

 

Current group members (incl. group head and current postgraduate students):

Name	Position	Qualification(s)	e-mail address
Dr Pieter de Villiers	Leader	B. Eng, M Eng (Electronic) Pretoria, PhD Cambridge, Pr.Eng (ECSA), Member IEEE	[email protected], [email protected]
Karel  de Bruin	M Eng Student	B Eng (Hons) Electronic	[email protected]
Johan Viljoen	PhD Student	B.Eng (Electronic), M.Eng (Electronic)	[email protected]
Thabang Matladi	PhD Student	B Sc, MsC	[email protected]
Arno Botha	PhD student	BSc (Actuarial), MSc (Actuarial)	[email protected]
Manfred Strempel	M Eng Student	B Eng (Hons) Electronic	[email protected]

 

Post-graduate students graduated in the past 5 years:

Name	Degree	Date of qualification
Willem van Eeden	M Eng	Apr-18
Hildegarde Mouton	PhD	Apr-17
Stephan Schmidt	M Eng	Apr-17
Lodewyk van der Merwe	M Eng	Sep-16
St Elmo Wilken	M Eng	Sep-15
Joel Dabrowski	PhD	May-15
Richard Focke	PhD	May-15
Matthew Smith	MSc	Sep-14

 

Collaborations within the ICMM (i.e. between your group and other groups in the ICMM)

Prof. Michael Pepper Director, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria

 

National and international collaborations:

National:

Prof. M Inggs, Department of Electrical Engineering, UCT, Cape Town.

Dr. J.P. Jacobs, Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Pretoria

Dr FJC Beyers, Department of Actuarial Sciences, University of Pretoria

Dr. Pierre Cilliers at the South African National Space Agency (SANSA), Hermanus, Western Cape

Dr Jacques Cilliers, DPSS, CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa

Dr. Simukai Utete, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)

 

International:

Prof. Paulo Costa, George Mason University, VA, USA

Prof. Kathryn Laskey, George Mason University, VA, USA

Dr. Anne-Laure Jousselme, DRDC-Valcartier, Canada

Dr. Gregor Pavlin, Thales Research Labs, Netherlands

Prof Karl Tuyls, University of Liverpool, UK.

Dr. John Stastny, SPAWAR (Space and Naval Warfare Center), San Diego, Ca. (I-CODE Maritime Domain Awareness open source project)

Dr. Augustus Vogel, US Office of Naval Research, International Office, Santiago, Chile. (I-CODE Maritime Domain Awareness open source project)

Prof. Stephane Azzopardi and Prof Paul Gloess, École nationale supérieure d’électronique, informatique, télécommunications, mathématique et mécanique de Bordeaux, France.

Prof Thia Kirubarajan, McMaster University, Canada

Prof. S.J. Godsill, Signal Processing Group, University of Cambridge, UK

Dr. Sumeetpal Singh, Signal Processing Group, University of Cambridge, UK

 

Visiting guests:

Prof Thia Kirubarajan, McMaster University, Canada (2017)

 

Last updated 29/03/2019