Name: Fadiran, Nathaniel Oreoluwa

 

Postal Address:

CRG Lab.

Department of Electrical Engineering

Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment

University of Cape Town

Private bag, Rondebosch-7701

Cape Town, Western Cape Region, RSA.

 

Phone: (+27) 072-490-7508

Fax: (+27) (021) 6503465 (Reception)

E-mail: orefad@crgmail.ee.uct.ac.za

 

Education

November, 1998– Cambridge O-Level High school leaving certificate-(Aggregate 7)

            Salesian Boys High School, Manzini, Swaziland (Best national result, Swaziland-1998)

 

May, 2004– Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics Engineering. (Second class, Upper– 2(i))

            University of Swaziland, Kwaluseni, Swaziland

 

Presently– Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering, Communications Research Group,

            University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

 

Work Experience

June-August, 2003- Internee (Radio and switch Engineer)

                        MTN-Swazi, Mbabane, Swaziland (Tel: +268 406 0000)

                        Job responsibilities included switch center coordination, maintenance, day to day logging of data, network elements watch and thus informing radio engineers of which BSC to service, upgrading of various sections of Switch (DXX, Routers etc).

 

August-September, 2004– Lecturer/Instructor

                        Providence Institution, Mbabane, Swaziland.(Tel: +268- 4041006)

                        Job responsibilities included preparation and issuing of lecture notes to diploma in Telecommunications Engineering students. Lectures were given on the course: Digital Communications.

 

February 2005– present– Research Assistant

                        University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

                        Job responsibilities include maintenance of the communications research Laboratory for the research group, machine set up and preparation for simulations on research work with supervisor.

 

Volunteer Work

June-November, 2005-Students' Health And Welfare Centres Organisation (SHAWCO)

            -Performing and Visual Art team

 

References

Dr. E.O. Bejide, Lecturer, University of Cape Town, RSA, Tel:(+27)(021) 6503849

Prof. H.A. Chan, Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Town, RSA, Tel: :(+27)(021) 6502788

Mr. T.M. Mkhululi, CEO- SWAZI-MTN, Swaziland Tel: +268 406 0000

 

Languages

English (written: Excellent, Spoken: Excellent, Comprehension: Excellent)

Yoruba (Written: good, Spoken: Excellent, Comprehension: Excellent)

SiSwati/Zulu (Written: poor, Spoken: fair, Comprehension: fair)

 

Patents and Publications

N.O. Fadiran, E.O. Bejide, “Effects of power control error on the performance of the STBC-CDMA system,” Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) Proceedings Vol. 1, pages 3-7

 

N.O. Fadiran, E.O. Bejide, “Error Rate Performance of Space-Time Block Coded CDMA Systems with Parameter Uncertainties,” The 8th International Symposium on DSP and Communication Systems, DSPCS’2005

 

Interests and Activities

Main:

Data rate improvement through channel coding and modulations schemes on the physical layer of network systems. (Masters research work)

Others:

Cybernetics

Urban Transportation systems

 

Hobbies

Photography and Digital Image manipulation

Gardening

Gadget reviews

Visual/performing arts

 

Computer Skills

Basic computer hardware

Programming (JAVA [level: Competent], C++ [level: Competent], Pascal [level: Competent], Perl [level: Introductory] )

 

Licenses and Certificates

Drivers License (2001, Swaziland)