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Contact Details
Academic lead: Dr Dawie Branken School of Chemical and Minerals Engineering Tel: (018) 299 1535 Email: dawie.branken@nwu.ac.za Specialisation Centre Administrator: Mr Louis le Grange Tel: (018) 299 1664 Email: 10066578@nwu.ac.zahttp://engineering.nwu.ac.za/must
About MUST Deep Learning
MUST Deep Learning is a research group within the Faculty of Engineering at NWU. We perform basic and applied research in machine learning, with an emphasis on the theory and application of deep learning. Our theoretical work focuses on some of the central open questions related to how these models learn and why they perform so well. Our…http://engineering.nwu.ac.za/must-deep-learning/background
Background
The relationship between mind and matter is perhaps the deepest intellectual challenge facing humanity. It links to wide ranges of science, philosophy and engineering, and has been infamously resistant to solution. In recent times, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a central theme in addressing this challenge, offering several insights that…http://engineering.nwu.ac.za/must-deep-learning/research-projects
Research projects
DL Theory Generalisation in Deep Learning A long-standing theoretical interest in our group is generalisation - that is, how exactly information learned on a training set of samples is transferred to novel inputs. This is particularly relevant in the context of Deep Learning: Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have…http://engineering.nwu.ac.za/must-deep-learning/awards-and-events
Awards and Events
Walter Heymans was the winner of the S2A3 Award 2023. Andrew Oosthuizen received the Vice-Chancellor Award 2023, for his Masters dissertation ‘Channel estimation and equalisation using generative adversarial networks’. Andrew Oosthuizen received the best paper award at SATNAC 2021. Jacques Beukes won the…http://engineering.nwu.ac.za/must-deep-learning/publications
Publications
2025 Theunissen, M.W., Rabe, R. and Davel, M.H., 2025. KnowIt: Deep Time Series Modeling and Interpretation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.06009. arXiv preprint Ruan P. Van der Spoel and Randle Rabe, " Investigating the relationship between diversity and generalization in deep neural networks", Proceedings of the 7th Northern Lights Deep…http://engineering.nwu.ac.za/solarcar
Home
Since 2012 the North-West University (NWU) has been competing in solar car challenges. The NWU solar car project stands out as a symbol of engineering excellence in the pursuit of energy-efficient transport technology. This flagship interdisciplinary project of the Faculty of Engineering not only focuses on research and…http://engineering.nwu.ac.za/solar-car/news
News
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Bat Mobile
The History: We made history when our debut solar powered vehicle was crowned joint Event Champions in the 2012 Sasol Solar Challenge. It may not have been the most elegant (it was definitely the cheapest) vehicle on the road but the Batmobile, as our car was affectionately known, certainly was effective. …http://engineering.nwu.ac.za/solar-car/sirius-x25