Dr Yunus Abdul Gaffar
On Research and Study Leave from 1 July to 31 December 2025
PrEng BSc(Eng) MSc(Eng) Natal PhD Cape Town
Research Interests
- Radar and Digital Signal Processing
Postgraduate Supervision
PhD
- Robert John Berndt, Micro-Doppler Based Automatic Classification of Aircraft using Radar
Masters
- Ebrahim Muhammad Zaakir (Title pending)
- Ebrahim Azhar, Translation and rotational motion compensation techniques for Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) Imaging of sea vessels
- Ferreira Brandon, Radar Detection using an S-Band Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave radar
- Manamela Selolo Solly , Consideration for radio Frequency propagation modelling and simulation for radar, Electronic Warfare and communications applications
- Motake Khothatso Edwin, Building Radar Speed Camera and Traffic Logger with a Raspberry Pi
- Mtonjeni Athenkosi, Statistical models for radar returns of sea clutter amplitude
- Tema Thabo Hebert, Extracting SAR backscatter for different types of Landcover using Airborne SAR data
- Vanker Ahmed, Development of an experimental radar system for estimating the speed of a kicked soccer ball (EBE/01181/2024)
- Banderker Muhammad Hanif, Active and Passive Sonar- A comparison & investigation into novel techniques in the context of maritime
Current Undergraduate Teaching
- Embedded Systems I: EEE2046F
- Electronic Devices & Circuits: EEE3090F