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