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