In 2019, the SUnORE group consists of a total of 37 members. Of these, 17 are skripsie students, 3 are exchange students, 13 are masters students, 7 are doctoral students and 3 are lecturers, as described below.
Skripsie Students
Christan Barnard
Final year BEng student with a project topic related to the application of data analytics and machine learning to cinemetrics.
Morné Bester
Final year BEng student with a project topic related to decision support for training artificial neural networks.
Mariska Bezuidenhout
Final-year BEng student with a project topic related to self-coordinating bus systems as a means to alleviate bus bunching.
Sebastian Dorrington
Final-year BEng student with a project related to vehicle routing for technicians in the wireless internet industry.
Alexander Flemming
Final-year BEng student with a project topic related to sentiment classification by means of machine learning models.
Bingle Kruger
Final year BEng student with a project topic related to decision support for human resource management — a data science approach.
Mignon Rühling
Final year BEng student with a project topic related to algorithmic performance prediction based on fitness landscape analysis.
Christian Malan
Final year BEng student with a project topic related to the modelling of repositioning techniques for a bicycle sharing system.
Xander Malan
Final-year BEng student with a project topic related to vehicle routing decision support for a neighbourhood watch.
Willem Moore
Final-year student with a project topic related to decision support for shared-resource school timetabling.
Cailin Perrie
Final year BEng student with a project topic related to analysing the South African junior primary education system using agent-based simulation modelling.
Tom Richardson
Final-year BEng student with a project topic related to modelling the spread of fire in natural conservation areas.
Judene Simonis
Final-year BEng student
Pieter Steenkamp
Final-year BEng student with a project topic related to decision support for bus to pre-determined route assignment.
Garth Turner
Final year BEng student with a project topic related to the development of a data analysis decision support system for a fuel distribution company.
Chrystal Udall
Final year BEng student with a project topic related to the modelling of the spread of tuberculosis in information settlements in South Africa.
Jurie Zietsman
Final-year BEng student with a project topic related to effects of data representation on opinion polarity classification.
Masters Students
Pierre Cilliers
First-year MEng student with a thesis topic related to modelling the growth of informal settlements.
Kit Searle
First-year MEng student with a thesis topic related to determining sustainable harvesting quotas along the boundaries of the spatial domain of a food species.
Günther Hüsselmann
First-year MEng student with a thesis topic related to the design public bus transit routes and timetables.
Ben Meylahn
First-year MEng student with a thesis topic related to the establishment of conditions for the persistence of cooperating strategies in evolutionary two-person games.
Tinus Loots
First-year MEng student with a thesis topic related to incentivising strategies aimed at encouraging real-estate developers to focus on prioritised urban zones.
Andre Thomas Snell
First-year MEng student with a thesis topic related to rare spare parts inventory management via machine learning.
Christian Nolting
Second-year MEng student with a thesis topic related to the discernment of spatio-temporal stock-out patterns in pharmaceutical supply chains.
Matthew Higgo
Second-year MEng student with a thesis topic related to the design of an information system for pharmaceutical inventory management in hospitals.
Marno du Plessis
Second-year MEng student with a thesis related to information sharing in pharmaceutical inventory management strategies.
Jacqueline Kazmaier
Second-year MEng student with a thesis topic related to decision support for evaluating unstructured customer feedback on products and services.
Monica Rolo
Second year MEng student with a thesis topic related to a clustering approach towards the identi cation of suitable waiting areas for drivers of transportation network companies.
Tashmah Rambali
Second-year MEng student with a thesis topic related to the prioritisation of suitable components in storm water drainage systems for the purpose of enlargement.
Ghiete van Zyl
Third-year MEng student with a thesis topic related to the application of semi-supervised disease gene classification machine learning.
Doctoral Students
Shane van Heerden
Final-year PhD student with a thesis topic related to machine learning in support of the vehicle accident insurance claim resolution disputes (Supervisor: Prof JH van Vuuren).
Ryan Reed
Final-year PhD student with a thesis topic in behavioural OR aimed at the facilitation of unstructured group decisions which are subject to a large degree of uncertainty (Supervisor: Prof JH van Vuuren).
Taliane Mpassi Mahinga
First-year PhD student with a dissertation topic related to decision support for hybrid renewable energy generation system design and operation
(Supervisor: Prof JH van Vuuren) .
Robert Bennetto
Final-year PhD student with a dissertation topic related to the discovery of effective branching schemes for constraint programming searches
(Supervisor: Prof JH van Vuuren) .
Angelo Silva Mendez
Third-year PhD student with a dissertation topic related to operational cost minimisation in natural gas transportation networks
(Supervisor: Prof JH van Vuuren) .
Quintin van Heerden
Third-year MEng student with a thesis topic related to the application of semi-supervised disease gene classification machine learning
(Supervisor: Prof JH van Vuuren) .
Karin Kritzinger
First-year PhD student with a dissertation topic related to the modelling of energy pricing schemes
(Supervisor: 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.
Christa de Kock
Lecturer with research interests in operations research, agent-based simulation modelling and humanitarian-focussed decision support systems.
Jan van Vuuren
Professor of Operations Research with research interests in graph theory, (multi-objective) combinatorial optimisation and decision support systems.