The AIMS South Africa Public Lecture Series presented a talk titled

‘Excursions into Signal Processing Research and its Applications’

By Dr Arlene Cole-Rhodes, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Morgan State University, Maryland, USA

Bio and abstract: Since January, Prof Cole-Rhodes has been spending a one-semester period of sabbatical leave at the Carnegie Mellon University – Africa campus in Rwanda. Her research interests span the areas of image and video processing, robotics and autonomous vehicles, as well as equalization algorithms for wireless communications. She has a BSc (Hons) degree in Applied Mathematics from the Warwick University, and an M.Phil. degree in Control Engineering from Cambridge University, UK. Her PhD. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science is from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. She will present the areas of her research over her professional career, with a focus on its mathematical foundations.