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Prof Rupert Gouws is presently a full professor in the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the North-West University (NWU), Potchefstroom. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. After completion of his studies, he joined a company Energy Cybernetics where he was involved with energy audits, measurement and verification activities and energy related research activities. He received an Institutional Teaching Excellence Award from the NWU and was involved in various undergraduate modules for all year groups. Apart from lecturing, he also mentors students that are busy with their Master’s studies, PhD studies and Postdoctoral fellowships. He specialises in the fields of electrical energy management, electrical energy efficiency, electrical machines - energy optimization, and power electronics - energy optimization. He currently has a National Research Foundation (NRF) rating status of Established Researcher. He has authored and co-authored more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and peer-reviewed international conference proceedings. He received awards for the most productive junior and senior researcher within the NWU Faculty of Engineering. He is active on research evaluation panels for various international journals and serve as external examiner for various institutions. He has an established network of partners within the university, local industries, and international collaborators. He acted as a member of the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Engineering at the NWU as well as a member of the Research Entities Evaluation Committee of the NWU. The Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) registered him as a Professional Engineer (Pr.Eng) and the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) certified him as a Certified Measurement and Verification Professional (CMVP). Furthermore, he holds membership with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE).

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Etienne Barnard

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Etienne Barnard obtained his Ph. D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1989, writing his thesis on “Neural Networks for Scene Analysis”. He has since then been active in research and development in pattern recognition and speech processing. He has held a number of academic positions, and has also worked in industry. Barnard has co-authored more than 250 refereed scientific publications, on topics including pattern recognition, neural networks, speech recognition and human-computer interaction. He holds a number of international patents in speech processing and is a past Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. Barnard’s research contributions have been recognized in various ways, including Google Research Awards in 2009, 2011 and 2014; he is currently Research Professor at the North-West University.

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Marelie H Davel

RONEL ROSCHER — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 07:30:30 +0000

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Marelie Davel is a Research Professor at North-West University (NWU), specialising in machine learning and the data-driven modelling of speech and language. Her current research focuses on generalisation in deep learning.

For the past two decades, Prof. Davel has been actively involved in technology-oriented R&D, initially as an electronic engineer at the South African CSIR, and later (2004) as principal researcher and the research group leader of the Human Language Technologies (HLT) research group at the same institution. She studied at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa), University of London (UK) and Carnegie Mellon University (USA), receiving her PhD from the University of Pretoria (South Africa), with a thesis on bootstrapping pronunciation models; at the time, one of the core missing components when developing speech technology in under-resourced environments.

She joined NWU in 2011 and became the director of MuST in 2014. Consisting mainly of a small team of full-time researchers, MuST is an externally-focussed, project-oriented research environment. Recent projects include the development of an automatic speech transcription platform for the South African government, development of a new multilingual text-to-speech corpus in collaboration with Google, and participation in the BABEL project: a 5-year internationally collaborative challenge aimed at solving the spoken term detection task for under-resourced languages.

Prof. Davel performs independent research, supervises postgraduate students and consults for clients from government and industry. She has published 90 peer-reviewed papers in fields related to machine learning and its applications. She is a node representative of the South African national Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR), and an NRF-rated researcher.

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George van Schoor

PERTUNIA THULO — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 12:19:36 +0000

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George van Schoor was born in Cape Town, South Africa on November 13, 1963. He received the B Eng, M.Eng and D.Eng degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), South Africa in 1985, 1987 and 2001 respectively.

He worked in industry in the field of power electronics for 9 years before joining the Programme Group Engineering at Technikon SA (the now UNISA), South Africa where he managed the Programme: Electrical Engineering from 1996 to June 2001. In July 2001 he accepted a position as Professor at the Potchefstroom University (the now North-West University), South Africa in the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering. From 2006 he was appointed in the position of director: Unit for Energy Systems. In 2012 he is appointed in the position of Research Professor. His research interests are in the fields of modeling and control, magnetic bearings and power electronics. In 2005 he founded the Magnetic Bearing – Modelling and Control research group in the Faculty of Engineering. The group has since been renamed McTronX after the field of mechatronics.

In the period 2003 to 2012 George delivers 38 Masters’ students and 6 PhD students as main supervisor and 4 Masters’ and 1 PhD as co-supervisor. He has authored and co-authored 24 peer-reviewed conference papers, 24 accredited journal papers and one book chapter.

Dr. van Schoor is a Member of the IEEE and a registered Professional Engineer with the Engineering Council of South Africa. In 2002, 2011 and 2012 he receives best paper awards from the the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers’ Transactions and the Africa Research Journal respectively.

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Albert Helberg

PERTUNIA THULO — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 07:48:34 +0000

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Albertus Stephanus Jacobus Helberg obtained his B.Eng (Elektr) cum laude in 1989, his M.Ing (Elektr) cum laude in 1991 from RAU. He completed his D.Eng at the same institute.

After completion of his studies Albert joined Eskom, the national electricity utility, as an engineer in training in the National Telecommunications section where he gained experience on various applied telecommunications technologies. During his five years at Eskom, Albert was promoted to Engineer and Senior Engineer. He left Eskom to join PQNetworks as a technical consultant on network management systems where he consulted to the major companies in the telecommunications industry in South Africa. Albert still consults to the telecommunications industry in Southern Africa.

In 2001 Albert Helberg accepted a nomination as full professor at the School for Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, which since merged to become the North-West University. Albert served as Director of the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering from 2002 to 2006, Faculty Director of Quality and Education (2007-2008), Acting Dean (2009) and is currently Director of the Research Unit on Energy Systems (2012- ).

Albert has an active interest in research in telecommunications and is research leader for the TeleNet research group in telecommunications, part of the Telkom Centre of Excellence at the NWU. His areas of speciality include error correction coding, network coding and wireless mesh networks. Albert Helberg is the author and co-author of several papers in International and National technical journals. He has acted as studyleader for more than 25 M.Eng and PhD students. Several of these students have received research awards, including best research thesis in the faculties of Science, Engineering and Health on all three campuses of the NWU and best student paper awards at national and international conferences.

Albert was named a Senior Member of the SAIEE in 2001 and has served as Technical Programme Chairperson for the IEEE Africon 2004 conference in Botswana, as well as Africon 2007 in Namibia. He is also active on research evaluation panels of the NRF and various universities in South Africa.

Albert has a special interest in establishing and leading innovative projects within the Faculty of Engineering. One of these projects is the NWU Solar Car Team that competed in the international FIA alternative energies cup for research groups and won the 2012 Olympia Class Rally event. This is the first time that a South African team has won.

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