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Mitch's Brain Trust, left to right: M-Raiyan Sharif, Josh Jandrell, Alice Drozdov, Max Brenner, Jess Johnson, Luiz A. M. Pereira (visitor from Inatel, Brazil), Mikaeel Dindar, Kit Rawlings, Mitch Cox (PI)

2023:

Prof Ling Cheng (co-PI), Fortune Iga, Elijah Kadimba, Alice Drozdov, Jandre Albertyn, Mikaeel Dindar, Shivun Chinniah, Kay Adetunji, Leloko Lepolesa, Roland Niwareeba, Ultan Daly (visitor from University of Glasgow), Steve Makoni, Dr Mitch Cox (co-PI)

Research Staff

Mitchell Cox	Ling Cheng	Shamin Achari

Free-space (Wireless) Optical Communications, Mode Division Multiplexing, Structured Laser Light, Optical Neural Networks, Environmental Sensing with Fibre Networks ResearchGate Google Scholar YouTube mitchell.cox@wits.ac.za	Visible Light Communications, Power-line Communications, Network Information Theory, Pattern Recognition, Error Correction Coding ResearchGate Google Scholar ling.cheng@wits.ac.za	Visible Light Communications, Error Correction Coding shamin.achari@wits.ac.za

Mitchell Cox

Ling Cheng

Shamin Achari

Free-space (Wireless) Optical Communications,
Mode Division Multiplexing,
Structured Laser Light, Optical Neural Networks, Environmental Sensing with Fibre Networks

ResearchGate
Google Scholar
YouTube

mitchell.cox@wits.ac.za

Visible Light Communications,
Power-line Communications,
Network Information Theory,
Pattern Recognition,
Error Correction Coding

ResearchGate
Google Scholar

ling.cheng@wits.ac.za

Visible Light Communications,
Error Correction Coding

shamin.achari@wits.ac.za

Current Students

Max Brenner	Kit Rawlings	Benjamin Rosen	Alice Drozdov

Josh Jandrell	M-Raees Dindar	Mikaeel Dindar	M-Raiyan Sharif
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Other Lab Members

Bob (the lab AI)

Lab Alumni

	Roland Niwareeba PhD Peak to average power ratio reduction in optical OFDM systems using lexicographical permutations
	Mulu Shimaponda-Nawa PhD
	Alice Drozdov MSc Distinction Investigating two-mode averaging with Laguerre-Gaussian and Hermite-Gaussian modes
	Fortune Iga MSc Distinction Characterisation of Standard Telecommunication Fibre Cables for Cost-Effective Free Space Optical Communication
	Steven Makoni MSc Distinction Modelling OAM Crosstalk with Neural Networks: Impact of Tip/tilt and Lateral Displacement
	Xongile Nghatsane MSc Distinction Modelling the memory of the Free Space Optical Channel for use in the design of Error Correcting Codes
	Femi Kolade PhD
	Alice Yang MSc
	Elijah Kadimba MSc
	Christian Kamwangala MSc Distinction Optimal transmitter power control for indoor RGB-based visible light communication
	Daniel Holmes MSc
	Familua Ayokunle Damilola PhD
	Yves-François Rivard MSc