University of Cape Town 2018 - 2022
BScEng Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lyttelton Manor Highschool 2013 - 2017
National Senior Certificate
Graduate Engineer | Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Nov 2022 - Present
Working on Electronic Warfare Support Measures (ESM) research and development in the Digital Electronic Warfare Research Group at the CSIR.
Tutor | University of Cape Town Feb 2022 - Jun 2022
During the 2022 1st semester, I was a tutor for the Electrical Engineering Design Priciples course (EEE3088F) presented to 3rd year electrical engineering students. The role involved marking tests, weekly assignments and project submissions. My responsibilities also involved mentoring 4 teams of students throughout their course project, which involved designing and fabricating an environment sensing expansion board (HAT) for the STM32 microcontroller discovery board. The teams made use of tools such as KiCAD for circuit board prototyping and Git/Github for collaboration and version control, and fabricated their boards using the services of JLCPCB.
Vacation Work Student | Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
I worked once again in the Digital Electronic Warfare Research Group within the Defense and Security cluster at the CSIR. The project that I worked on involved benchmarking the performance of deep learning models for signal classification, using libraries such as Tensorflow and Pytorch (Python), and MLJFlux and Flux (Julia). I was exposed to concepts in Machine Learning and Radar and made use of Python and the Julia programming language.
Vacation Work Student | Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) July 2022
I worked in the Digital Electronic Warfare Research Group within the Defense and Security cluster at the CSIR. The project that I worked on involved performing an invesetigation on the use of deep learning models for signal classification performance of deep learning models for signal classification, using libraries such as MLJFlux and Flux (Julia). I was exposed to concepts in Machine Learning and Radar and made use of the Julia programming language.
Vacation Work Student | Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Dec 2019
I worked in the Digital Electronic Warfare Research Group within the Defense and Security cluster at the CSIR. The project that I worked on involved writing a script using Python and OpenCV for the segmentation and extraction of signal frequenices from spectrogram images. I was exposed to concepts in Radar, Electronic Warfare and Computer Vision.
Vacation Work Student | Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) June 2019 - July 2019
I worked in the Next Generation Enterprises and Institutions cluster at the CSIR. The project that I worked on involved working in a team on the design and development of a workplace peer evaluation web application, using a modern web development stack and collaboration tools, such as ReactJS, PostgreSQL, Github and Trello. I was exposed to web development and agile software development. I also had the opportunity to perform the role of scrum master, facilitating weekly stand-up meetings.
Faculty Mentor | University of Cape Town Mar 2021 - Dec 2021
I was part of the Electrical Engineering department’s First Year mentorship team. This role involved providing mentorship to a group of 3 first year Electrical Engineering students, through advice and resources to allow them to successfully navigate through their first year of engineering studies at university.
Technical Mentor | Google Developers Student Club UCT (DSC-UCT) Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
This role involved ideation and planning of events and hackathons, together with the rest of the DSC-UCT committee. It also involved providing technical support to teams during DSC-UCT hosted hackathons. In 2021, I facilitated a team progress report session during a hackathon held in partnership with Yoco.
Residence Mentor | University of Cape Town Oct 2018 - Oct 2019
I was part of the mentorship team at the Leo Marquard Hall residence at UCT. This role involved helping incoming first year students, through advice and guidance to enable to easily navigate through their first year of university.
Logistics Coordinator | TeachOut Oct 2018 - May 2019
This role involved communicating the teachers and educators to set up tutoring at different schools and youth centres in and around the Phillipi community in Cape Town. It also involved organising transport for the TeachOut tutors to reach their tutoring sessions.
Tutor | TeachOut Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
This role involved tutoring highschool learners Maths and Science at the learning centres and schools in the Phillipi community in Cape Town.
Self-Driving Cars Specialisation (Online/Coursera)Aug 2022 - present
This is an ongoing project that I’ve undertaken due to my interest in autonomous vehicles. The course is helping me develop skills and knowledge in Autonomous vehicle technology. The course covers an Introduction to Self-Driving Cars, State Estimation and Localisation for Self-Driving Cars, Visual Perception and Motion Planning. (Read more)
Eyowa!Aug 2022 - present
Eyowa! is a learning platform which allows anyone to learn the Tshiluba language. Ciluba (pronounced Chee-loo-ba) is a language spoken in the Kasai province in.. (Coming soon)
Evaluating the MIT S-band coffee can radar as an educational toolFeb 2022 - May 2022
As a partial requirements for the award of my degree in Electrical and Computer engineering at the University of Cape Town, I had to undertake a research project. My research project aimed to contribute to practical teaching and learning in the field of Radar at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. The project.. (Read more)