In 2020, the SUnORE group consists of a total of 43 members. Of these, 18 are skripsie students, 15 are masters students, 7 are doctoral students and 3 are lecturers, as described below.
Skripsie Students
Michael Burke
Final year BEng student
Holly Cadle
Final year BEng student
Hadrick Coertze
Final year BEng student
Roannè Coetzer
Final year BEng student
Lisa Conradie
Final year BEng student
Peet du Plessis
Final year BEng student
Regardt du Plessis
Final year BEng student
Reinard Ganzevoort
Final year BEng student
Jacobus King
Final year BEng student
Samuel Kingwell
Final year BEng student
Ryno Kleinhans
Final year BEng student
Megan Leslie
Final year BEng student
Rinus Maarsingh
Final year BEng student
Stuart McMaster
Final year BEng student
Aaron Shuttleworth
Final year BEng student
Daniëlle van Wyk
Final year BEng student
Bianca van Zyl
Final year BEng student
Hanneke Willemse
Final year BEng student
Masters Students
Christan Barnard
First year MEng student.
Alexander Flemming
First year MEng student.
Ruan Jordaan
First year MEng student.
Christian Malan
First year MEng student.
Edwin Reed
First year MEng student.
Pieter Steenkamp
First year MEng student.
Van Zyl Venter
First year MEng student.
Jurie Zietsman
First year MEng student.
Pierre Cilliers
Second year MEng student with a thesis topic related to modelling the growth of informal settlements.
Kit Searle
Second 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
Second year MEng student with a thesis topic related to the design public bus transit routes and timetables.
Tinus Loots
Second year MEng student with a thesis topic related to incentivising strategies aimed at encouraging real-estate developers to focus on prioritised urban zones.
Ben Meylahn
Second year MEng student with a thesis topic related to the establishment of conditions for the persistence of cooperating strategies in evolutionary two-person games.
Christian Nolting
Third year MEng student with a thesis topic related to the discernment of spatio-temporal stock-out patterns in pharmaceutical supply chains.
Tashmah Rambali
Forth 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
Jacqueline Kazmaier
First year PhD student with a dissertation topic related to decision support for evaluating unstructured customer feedback on products and services (Promoter: Prof JH van Vuuren).
Ghiete van Zyl
First year PhD student with a dissertation topic related to the application of semi-supervised disease gene classification machine learning
(Promoter: Prof JH van Vuuren).
Karin Kritzinger
Second year PhD student with a dissertation topic related to the modelling of energy pricing schemes (Promoter: Prof JH van Vuuren).
Taliane Mpassi Mahinga
Second 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
Second year MEng student with a thesis topic related to rare spare parts inventory management via machine learning (Promoter: Prof JH van Vuuren).
Quintin van Heerden
Second year PhD student with a dissertation topic related to decision support for evaluating unstructured customer feedback on products and services (Promoter: Prof JH van Vuuren).
Angelo Silva Mendez
Forth year PhD student with a dissertation topic related to operational cost minimisation in natural gas transportation 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.
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.