| Surname | Sanders |
| First Names | Ian Douglas |
| Date of Birth | 6 May 1956 |
| Place of Birth | Klerksdorp, North West (formerly Transvaal), South Africa |
| Marital Status | Married to Yvonne Laurain (neé Gubler)
Two children - Aidan Craig (born 29 October 2008) and Rachael Kate (born 27 October 2009) |
| Residential Address | 19 Ocean Street |
| Kensington | |
| Johannesburg | |
| South Africa | |
| Postal Address | P O Box 188 |
| Wits | |
| 2050 | |
| South Africa | |
| Telephone Numbers | (+2711) 622-1966 (Home) |
| (+2711) 717-6187 (Work) | |
| (+2783) 455-3088 (cell) | |
| e-mail Address | ian@cs.wits.ac.za |
| Current Employer | University of the Witwatersrand, |
| 1 Jan Smuts Avenue | |
| Johannesburg | |
| South Africa | |
| School | Computer Science |
| Current Position | Associate Professor |
| 1962 - 1968 | Strathvaal Primary School in Stilfontein, North West |
| 1969 - 1973 | Milner High School in Klerksdorp, North West |
| 1975 - 1978 | BSc (Applied Mathematics, Geophysics) University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) |
| 1979 | BSc Honours (Geophysics) Wits |
| 1981 - 1983 | BSc Honours (Applied Maths) (Part-time) Wits |
| 1985 - 1986 | Higher Diploma in Computer Science (Part-time) Wits |
| 1988 - 1991 | MSc (Applied Mathematics) (Part-time) Wits |
| Dissertation entitled Fast Robust Restoration of Binary Images | |
| Supervisors - Prof C J Wright and Dr N Pendock | |
| 1998 - 2002 | PhD (Computer Science) (part-time) University of Pretoria |
| Thesis entitled The Axial Line Placement Problem | |
| Supervisor - Professor Derrick Kourie (University of Pretoria) | |
| External examiners - Dr J O'Rourke (Smith College), Dr J Hattingh (Georgia State University) | |
| Graduated on 5 September 2002 |
| 5/74 - 12/74 | Research Assistant, Messina Transvaal Development |
| 3/80 - 8/82 | Geophysicist, Southern Oil exploration Corporation (SOEKOR) |
| 9/82 - 7/83 | Senior Geophysicist, SOEKOR |
| 8/83 - 5/84 | Systems Analyst, GEMCOM |
| 6/84 - 12/84 | Research Officer, NITRR, CSIR |
| 1/85 - 1/86 | Senior Analyst, Themis Computer Systems |
| 2/86 - 10/88 | Geological Analyst/Programmer, Anglovaal Limited |
| 2/87 - 6/87 | Major-time Senior Tutor, Department of Computer Science, University of the Witwatersrand, (on secondment from Anglovaal Limited) |
| 11/88 - 6/89 | Systems Analyst, Anglovaal Limited |
| 7/89 - 12/89 | Project Leader, Anglovaal Limited |
| 1/90 - 12/94 | Senior Tutor, Department of Computer Science, University of the Witwatersrand |
| 1/95 - 12/95 | Senior Tutor on the Senior Lecturer Salary Scale, Department of Computer Science, University of the Witwatersrand |
| 1/96 - 12/97 | Principal Tutor, Department of Computer Science, University of the Witwatersrand |
| 1/98 - 12/2000 | Principal Tutor on the Special List, Department of Computer Science, University of the Witwatersrand |
| 1/2001 - | Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, University of the Witwatersrand |
Leonard Hagger's MSc disseration led to a publication in a refereed journal and Tina Götschi's work led directly to two refereed conference proceedings articles.
I have served or am currently serving on the internal panels of a number of MSc and PhD students - John Kneen, Nicholas Lai, Menahem Fuchs, Brynn Andrew, Pekka Pihlajasaari, Roger Mateer, Pravesh Ranchod (as chair of the panel), Nkwebi Motlogelwa, Anna Badimo, Benjamin Kumwenda, Dane Kennedy, Leonard Thomson, Michael Mitchley, Mpho Raborife (as chair of the panel) and Max Rabkin (as chair of the panel).
In addition, I have supervised the research reports of 86 Honours students. A full list of honours students supervised is given in Appendix A. A fairly high percentage (24%) of these reports have led to publications at various levels. Nine of the research reports (Wilcocks, Herbert, Tsai, Watts, Hall, Turner, Venter, Russell and Wilkins) have led to publications in refereed journals.
A number of the Honours students whose research reports I supervised have gone on to complete (or are currently registered for) higher degrees. A (incomplete) list of such students can be found in Appendix B.
Acted as Chair of Governing Committee on occasion.
The numbers refer to the list of publications in the previous sections. These citations do not include self-citations or citations by collaborators. This list is incomplete.
J. Adler, G. D. Christelis, J. A. Deneys, G. D. Konidaris, G. Lewis, A. G. Lipson, R. L. Phillips, D. K. Scott-Dawkins, D. A. Shell, B. V. Strydom, W. M. Trakman and L.D. Van Gool, Finding adjacencies in non-overlapping polygons, Electronic Proceedings of South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Annual Research Symposium, 2001
Eleni Pyrenis (Expert Systems) (This supervision was done while still a full-time employee at Anglovaal Limited)
Sean Pyott (Computer Science Education)
Harshila Gopal (Computer Science Education)
Jack Fridman (Image Processing)
Also assisted in the supervision of 2 projects dealing with the implementation and testing of low-level image processing algorithms on networks of transputers.
I took over the supervision of a further 3 students when a colleague left to begin her PhD at Edinburgh.
Naresh Pema (Parallel Processing)
Alan Gibbons (Parallel Processing)
Thomas McWalter (Image Processing)
Andrew Godfrey (Image Processing)
Sean Katz (Image Processing)
Jennifer Pearcey (Image Processing)
Tamsin Herbert (Formal Grammars as applied to problems in Architecture)
Derek Wilcocks (Computer Science Education)
Jayesh Nana (Image Processing)
Andrew Smith (Optimization)
Kirti Kalianji (Image Processing and Classification Theory)
Gina Hishin (Formal Grammars as applied to problems in Architecture)
Gheorghita Ghinea (Image Processing)
Christopher Chalmers (Computer Science Education)
Paul Gordon (Computer Science Education)
Wolfgang Held (Fractal Geometries)
Anjana Mistri (Computers and the Disabled)
Chia Ling Tsai (Computers and the Disabled)
Barbara Pingyin (Computer Science Education)
Diksha Mistry (co-supervisor) (Mathematics Education)
Peter McKeown (Computational Geometry)
Panyotis Zachariou (Graph Algorithms as applied to problems in Architecture)
Mark McNally (Image Processing)
Sherona Hoosen (co-supervisor) (Computer Science Education)
I was on sabbatical but I assisted with the supervision of Versha Lala (Computer Science Education)
Claire Watts (Computational Geometry)
Dimitri Zarganakis (Computational Geometry)
Rui Soares (Computational Geometry)
Dale Wilson (Computational Geometry)
Adi Attar (Computer Science Education)
Jean Bilbrough (Computational Geometry)
Chris Picton (Image Processing)
Neil du Plessis (Computational Geometry)
Paul Hazelton (Image Processing)
Agostinho Moreira (Image Processing)
Andrew Hall (Computational Geometry)
Janet Ashman (Computational Geometry)
Shameer Kika (Computers and the Disabled)
Danielle Bukovska (Computational Geometry)
Leigh-Ann Kenny (Computational Geometry)
Éva Soltész (Computational Geometry)
Andreas Bergman (Algorithms)
Joao de Pinheiro (Algorithms)
Mitchell Lee (Computers and the Disabled)
George Konidaris (Computational Geometry)
Dylan Scott-Dawkins (Computational Geometry)
Robin Phillips (Computational Geometry)
Leonard Hagger (Computational Geometry)
Heather Turner (with Vashti Galpin) (Computer Science Education)
Yolanda Martins (with Vashti Galpin) (Computer Science Education)
Andrew Russell (Computers and the disabled - Word Prediction in a Program Editing Environment), joint winner of the Altech Systems Prize for the Best Computer Science Honours Project.
Nkuebe Letsie (Computer Science Education) (Vashti Galpin as second supervisor)
Bernadine Venter (Computer Science Education) (second supervisor to Vashti Galpin)
Mark Jeoffreys (Image Processing)
Dennis Galatis (Image Processing)
Mark Chin (Computational Geometry)
Leonard Lai King (Computational Geometry)
Kevin van Antwerpen (Computational Geometry)
Kasey Ferris (Computational Geometry - Heuristics for ALP-ALOR)
Aileen Hutton (Image Processing - Detecting roads in aerial photographs)
Rubendran Naidoo (Computational Geometry - Heuristics for ALP-ALOR)
Sudheer Rugbeer (Computational Geometry - Rectangle packing)
Carol Wilcock (Image Processing - Detecting roads in aerial photographs)
Daniel Wilkins (Computational Geometry - ALP for deformed urban grids)
Bradley Atcheson (Image Processing - Detecting cars on roads in aerial photographs)
Leonard Thomson (Image Processing - Detecting cars on roads in aerial photographs)
Kagiso Mokone (Computer Science Education - First programming languages)
James Mutuku (Computer Science Education - First programming languages)
Hein Kruger ((Computational Geometry - Special cases for ALP-ALOR)
Benjamin Kumwenda (Computer Science Education - First programming languages)
Damjan Jovanovic (Image Processing - Counting trees in aerial photographs)
Lin-Chun Huang (Image Processing - Finding roads in images)
James Barrow (Image Processing - Finding golf balls in images)
Brett Credo (Image Processing - Finding golf balls in images)
Ryan Chazen (Image Processing - Counting shacks in images)
Sejal Purbhoo (Image Processing - Counting shacks in images)
Benjamin Rosman (Image processing - Abstract visual images)
Brighton Ravele (Image processing - Abstract visual images)
Sasha Langford (Computer Science Education)
Evan Knowles (Image processing - Counting shacks in images)
Michael Young (Image processing / pattern classification - Automatic processing of Borehole Radar data)
Michael Pote (Image processing - Counting trees in aerial photographs)
Brett Strydom (Image processing / pattern classification - Automatic processing of Borehole Radar data)
Ché Nxusani (Image processing - Counting shacks in images)
Tamarisk Scholtz (Computer Science Education - Mental Models of Recursion)
I was on sabbatical
Emile Adlem (Computational complexity - approximation algorithms for cycle picking)
Marco de Freitas (Image processing - tracking objects in video sequences)
Garth Wasson (Image processing - region growing)
This list is almost definitely incomplete and may contain errors as it is difficult to keep track of the students.
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