Graduates of the program
Sunelle Otto: MScEng (Prof P Meyer and Dr DIL de Villiers)
‘A STUDY OF RADIO ASTRONOMY PRINCIPLES AND SKA PATHFINDER SYSTEM DESIGNS WITH PULSAR SCIENCE’, March 2011
Evan Lezar: PhD (Prof DB Davidson)
‘GPU ACCELERATION OF MATRIX-BASED METHODS IN COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS‘, March 2011
Paul van der Merwe: PhD (Prof HC Reader)
‘CABLING AND INTERFACES FOR KAROO ARRAY TELESCOPES : MODELLING AND METROLOGY’, December 2011
Stephanie Alphonse: MScEng (Prof KD Palmer and Dr DIL de Villiers)
‘FAST ANALYSIS OF A COMPOUND LARGE REFLECTOR ANTENNA’ , December 2011
Joely Andriambeloson: MScEng (Prof HC Reader)
‘WIDEBAND COAXIAL CABLE TRANSFER IMPEDANCE FOR KARROO ARRAY TELESCOPE’, December 2011
Theunis Beukman: MScEng (Dr RH Geschke)
‘TUNE-ALL WIDEBAND PLANAR FILTERS FOR KAT-7’, December 2011
David Prinsloo: MScEng (Prof P Meyer and Dr DIL de Villiers)
‘CHARACTERISATION OF L-BAND DIFFERENTIAL LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS’, December 2011
Philip Kibet-Langat: PhD (Prof HC Reader)
‘POWER-LINE SPARKING NOISE CHARACTERISATION IN THE SKA ENVIRONMENT’, December 2011
Siyanda Nazo: MScEng (Prof DB Davidson)
‘A HYBRID MOM/PO TECHNIQUE WITH LARGE ELEMENT PO’, March 2012
Carel van der Merwe: MScEng (Prof HC Reader)
‘CULPRIT AND VICTIM MANAGEMENT RFI ENVIRONMENT FOR A RADIO ASTRONOMY SITE’ , March 2012
Juan-Pierre Jansen van Rensburg: MScEng (Prof DB Davidson)
‘THE DESIGN OF A TWO-ELEMENT CORRELATION INTERFEROMETER OPERATING AT L-BAND’, December 2012
Dewald Schoeman: MScEng (Dr DIL de Villiers)
‘FULL SCALE LOW-COST ULTRA WIDE BAND ANTENNA FOR SKA LOW FREQUENCY ARRAY’, March 2013
Renier Marchand: PhD (Prof DB Davidson)
‘THE METHOD OF MANUFACTURED SOLUTIONS FOR THE VERIFICATION OF COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETIC CODES’, March 2013
Ngoy Mutonkole: MScEng (Dr DIL de Villiers)
‘STUDY OF A WIDEBAND SINUOUS FEED FOR REFLECTOR ANTENNA APPLICATIONS’, December 2013
André Young: PhD (Prof DB Davidson)
‘IMPROVING THE DIRECTION-DEPENDENT GAIN CALIBRATION OF REFLECTOR ANTENNA RADIO TELESCOPES’, December 2013
Bob Ilgner: PhD (Prof DB Davidson)
‘A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PERFORMANCE AND DEPLOYMENT OVERHEAD OF PARALLELIZED FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) ALGORITHMS ON A SELECTION OF HIGH PERFORMANCE MULTIPROCESSOR COMPUTING SYSTEMS’, December 2013
Mark Volkmann: PhD (Profs C Fourie, WJ Perold and DB Davidson)
‘A SUPERCONDUCTING SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO FRONTEND WITH APPLICATION TO THE SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY‘, December 2013
Nicholas Thompson: MEng (Prof DB Davidson)
‘RFI MITIGATION IN RADIO ASTRONOMY’, April 2014
Antheun Botha: MEng (Prof HC Reader)
DEVELOPMENT OF A REAL-TIME TRANSIENT ANALYSER FOR THE SKA’, April 2014
Joely Andriambeloson: PhD (Prof HC Reader)
‘REVERBERATION CHAMBER TIME AND FREQUENCY METROLOGY FOR MEERKAT SYSTEMS SHIELDING EVALUATION’, December 2014
Danie Ludick: PhD (Prof DB Davidson)
‘EFFICIENT NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF FINITE ANTENNA ARRAYS USING DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS‘, December 2014
Nardus Matthysen: MEng (Dr PG Wiid)
‘TIME DOMAIN METROLOGY FOR MEERKAT SYSTEMS’, December 2014
Vereese van Tonder: MEng (Prof DB Davidson)
‘BEAMFORMING FOR RADIO ASTRONOMY’, December 2014
Dewald Botes: MEng (Prof P Meyer)
‘WIDE BAND, LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIERS FOR THE MID-RANGE SKA’, March 2015
Lee Goodrick: MEng (Prof DB Davidson and Dr A Young)
‘IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION IN RADIO ASTRONOMY WITH NON-COPLANAR SYNTHESIS ARRAYS’, March 2015
Lukas van Vuuren: MEng (Dr DIL de Villiers)
‘DESIGN OF A RECEIVER SYSTEM FOR USE IN RADIO ASTRONOMY’, March 2015
Theunis Beukman: PhD (Prof P Meyer)
‘MODAL-BASED DESIGN TECHNIQUES FOR CIRCULAR QUADRUPLE-RIDGED FLARED HORN ANTENNAS’, March 2015
David Prinsloo: PhD (Prof P Meyer)
‘MULTI-MODE ANTENNAS FOR HEMISPHERICAL FIELD-OF-VIEW COVERAGE’, March 2015
Hardie Pienaar: PhD (Profs DB Davidson and HC Reader)
‘KAROO ARRAY TELESCOPE SITE SHIELDING : LABORATORY, COMPUTATIONAL AND MULTI-COPTER STUDIES’, December 2015
Stanley Kuja: MEng (Dr PG Wiid)
‘CHARACTERIZATION OF RF SIGNAL COUPLING INTO MEERKAT TELESCOPES’, December 2015
Jacki Gilmore: PhD (Prof DB Davidson)
‘DESIGN OF A DUAL-POLARIZED DENSE DIPOLE ARRAY FOR SKA MID-FREQUENCY APERTURE ARRAY’, March 2016
Stephan Combrink: MEng (Dr PG Wiid)
‘CALIBRATION OF LARGE ROGOWSKI COILS’, March 2016
Mariet Venter: MEng (Prof DB Davidson)
‘INVESTIGATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE HERA DISH AND FEED USING ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS’, March 2016
Alex Vermeulen: MEng (Prof DIL de Villiers)
‘THE DESIGN OF A DUAL REFLECTOR FEED USING SURROGATE MODELING TECHNIQUES’, March 2016
Kolijn Wolfaardt: MEng (Profs TR Niesler and DB Davidson)
‘MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH TO RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE(RFI) CLASSIFICATION IN RADIO ASTRONOMY’, March 2016
Anathi Hokwana: MEng (Prof DB Davidson)
‘IMPLEMENTATION OF A CALIBRATION ALGORITHM FOR EFFICIENT MODELING OF DIRECTION-DEPENDENT AND BASELINE-DEPENDENT EFFECTS FOR INTERFEROMETRIC IMAGING ARRAYS IN RADIO ASTRONOMY’, March 2017
Maurits de Beer: MEng (Dr PG Wiid and Prof DB Davidson)
‘WIDEBAND DIRECTION FINDING OF RFI FOR MEERKAT’, March 2017
Geomarr van Tonder: MEng (Prof P Meyer)
‘BEAMFORMING TECHNIQUES FOR A QUAD-MODE ANTENNA ARRAY’, March 2017
TJ Phiri: PhD (Prof DB Davidson and Dr PG Wiid)
‘CHARACTERISING THE ELECTROMAGNETIC ENVIRONMENT OF MEERKAT’, March 2017
Nicol Steenkamp: MEng (Prof DIL de Villiers)
‘DESIGN OF A WIDEBAND SINUOUS ANTENNA FOR RADIO TELESCOPE APPLICATIONS’, March 2018
Nelis Wilke: MEng (Dr J Gilmore and Prof DB Davidson)
‘QUANTIZATION EFFECTS ON BEAMFORMING IN DENSE PHASED ARRAYS’, March 2018
Post-docs supported on the program:
Dr Gideon Wiid, 2010-2012.
Dr Braam Otto, 2010-2012.
Dr Paul van der Merwe, 2011-2012.
Dr Neilen Marais, 2011.
Dr Evan Lezar, 2011.
Dr Necmi Tezel, 2013-2014.
Dr Andre Young, 2013-2014.
Dr Bob Ilgner, 2013-2015.
Dr David Smith, 2014-2015.
Dr David Prinsloo, 2015.
Dr Joely Andriambeloson, 2015 – 2016.
Dr Danie Ludick, 2015 – 2017.
Dr Hardie Pienaar, 2016 – 2017.