• Professor: Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering
• Director: Advanced Computing Center (ACC)
• Email: jc dot olivier at up dot ac dot za
• Tel: 012 420 3757

• Funding is available for capable students for the Hons, Masters and PhD programs (full time), in Wireless Communications, machine learning, AI, pattern recognition, and statistical signal processing. Interested students are requested to contact me via email directly for an appointment.

• B.Eng (Electronics) Summa Cum Laude 1985, (UP)
  
• M.Eng (Electronics) Summa Cum Laude 1986 (UP)
  
• Ph.D. (Electronics) 1990 (UP)
  

biography

Iterative Bayesian filters, Machine Learning, Bayesian methods. Applied to problems in Remote Sensing, Pattern Recognition and Telecommunications.

Estimation of unknown parameters for Defense Research applications.

I teach two post graduate courses:

1. The Theory of Bayesian Inference: a 32 credit course in the Fall semester
2. Estimation and Detection: a 32 credit course in the Spring semester

• S. Reddy (Ph.D. Signal Processing)

• T. Grobbelaar (Ph.D. Time Series research)

• W. Kleynhans (Ph.D. Candidate, Remote Sensing, Kalman particle filters)

• B. Salmon (Ph.D. Candidate, Remote Sensing, change detection)

• H.C. Myburgh (Ph.D., Signal Processing, Joint equalisation and decoding in fading channels)

• F. Potgieter (M.Eng. Candidate, Machine learning)

• R. Knoll (M.Eng. Candidate, Gaussian and Kalman particle filters for target tracking)

• T. Heyns (M.Eng. Candidate, AI)

• D. Joubert (M.Eng. Candidate, Pattern Recognition)

• E. Ackermann (M.Eng: AI)

• A. McDonald: MSc Graduated 2010

• MC Du Plessis: Msc Graduated 2010

• H.C. Myburgh: MSc Graduated 2010

• M. Cheng: PhD Graduated 2008

• B. Salmon: MSc Graduated 2008

• W. Kleynhans: MSc Graduated 2008

• J. Hinds: MSc Graduated 2008

• T. Grobbelaar: MSc Graduated 2008

• J. Vermaak: MSc Graduated 1995