Kevin Eloff
Stellenbosch Engineering Student
About me
Personal Summary
A highly motivated and hard-working electronic engineering student aspiring to change the world through the use of algorithms and software. Passionate about understanding the way the world works and applying knowledge and logic in the solving of everyday problems. Trustworthy, disciplined individual ready to take on any task given.Skills
Key Skills:
- High level logical thinking
- Complex problem solving
- Algorithm development
- Software development
Programming Languages:
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Other Skills:
- Fast learner of new concepts and ideas
- Basic knowledge of AI (Machine Learning)
- Driven to learn new things
Work Experience
Internship
Jan 2017
AB Ventures R&D
- Worked on web application design
- Utilised Linux CLI tooling in a development environment
Internship
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
VASTech
- Created a web-based user interface for viewing semantic models
- Learnt how to use protocol buffers for data transmission
Education
BEng Electrical and Electronic
2017 - Present
Stellenbosch University
- Currently enrolled in third year
- Completed first two years cum laude
Secondary Education
2011 - 2016
Fairmont High School
- Gr.12 standard grade completed
- Achieved 86.7% aggregate for NSC final examinations
Coding Projects
This is a list of my current coding projects along with a short description. Each project is available on my GitHub.
Evolutionary RNN
Using genetic algorithms and recurrent neural networks to evolve a sensory based agent in the task of navigating an unknown environment
The agent is set in an unknown environment and given a destination. To get to the destination the agent must learn to navigate the environment purely based on its senses. These senses include:
- x, y scalar distance between the agent's current position and the destination
- 4 values set to 1 or 0 whether there is an adjacent block or not
- 2 inputs set to the last move taken in both x and y (optional)
MyTelebot
A simple telegram chat bot created in python using python-telegram-bot api
This is a simple chatbot that works through telegram's api. It is able to extract queries from text and act accordingly. The bot makes use of Levenshtein Distance to assist it in locating keywords. The bot uses these queries to do various tasks, such as retrieving news from a news API, fetching images from url's, collecting and sending stickers or sending the current date or time. These are just some simple uses of this bot. It could further be used for controlling other scripts/servers/data in an easily manageble and interactive environment. This bot also works great in groups.