Members

In 2021, the SUnORE group consists of a total of 42 members. Of these, 14 are skripsie students, 18 are masters students, 8 are doctoral students and 2 are lecturers, as described below.

Skripsie Students

Monique Bartch
Final year BEng student

Louis Burger
Final year BEng student

Shaun Butler
Final year BEng student

Fuzail Dawood
Final year BEng student

Stephan du Plessis
Final year BEng student

Dominic Huskisson
Final year BEng student

Pierre Liebenberg
Final year BEng student

Evan Nanni
Final year BEng student

Himil Parshotam
Final year BEng student

Louis Schoonbee
Final year BEng student

Alexandra Sheppard
Final year BEng student

Jean-Louis Swart
Final year BEng student

Emil van Wyk
Final year BEng student

Karen Venter
Final year BEng student


Masters Students

Regardt du Plessis
First year MEng student

Reinard Ganzevoort
First year MEng student

Jacobus Jacobs
First year MEng student

Jacobus King
First year MEng student

Ryno Kleinhans
First year MEng student

Willem Moore
First year MEng student

Bianca van Zyl
First year MEng student

Christan Barnard
Second year MEng student

Alexander Flemming
Second year MEng student

Ruan Jordaan
Second year MEng student

Christian Malan
Second year MEng student

Lohan Pieterse
Second year MEng student

Edwin Reed
Second year MEng student

Cameron Smith
Second year MEng student

Pieter Steenkamp
Second year MEng student

Van Zyl Venter
Second year MEng student

Jurie Zietsman
Second year MEng student


Tashmah Rambali
Fifth year MEng student with a thesis topic related to the prioritisation of suitable components in storm water drainage systems for the purpose of enlargement.

Doctoral Students

Pierre Cilliers
First year PhD student with a dissertation topic related to modelling the growth of informal settlements (Promoters: Prof JH van Vuuren & Mnr Q van Heerden).

Gunther Husselman
First year PhD student with a dissertation topic related to the design public bus transit routes and timetables (Promoter: Prof JH van Vuuren) .

Kit Searle
First year PhD student with a dissertation topic related to determining sustainable harvesting quotas along the boundaries of the spatial domain of a food species (Promoter: Prof JH van Vuuren).

Karin Kritzinger
Third year PhD student (Promoter: Prof JH van Vuuren).

Taliane Mpassi Mahinga
Third year PhD student with a dissertation topic related to decision support for hybrid renewable energy generation system design and operation
(Promoter: Prof JH van Vuuren).

Andre Thomas Snell
Third year PhD student with a dissertation topic related to rare spare parts inventory management via machine learning (Promoters: Prof JH van Vuuren & Dr GS Nel).

Quintin van Heerden
Third year PhD student (Promoter: Prof JH van Vuuren).

Angelo Silva Mendez
Forth year PhD student with a dissertation topic related to decision support for the maintenance and design of gas pipeline networks 
(Promoter: Prof JH van Vuuren).


Lecturers

Stephan Nel
Lecturer in Operations Research currently enrolled for a PhD with research interests in artificial neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, multi-objective optimisation and data science.

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Jan van Vuuren
Professor of Operations Research with research interests in graph theory, (multi-objective) combinatorial optimisation and decision support systems.


SUnORE Members (2020)

SUnORE Members (2019)

SUnORE Members (2018)

SUnORE Members (2017)

SUnORE Members (2016)

SUnORE Members (2015)

Past Visiting Members