Papers, preprints & presentations

All publications with Prof. Albert S.J. Helberg and Prof. Marelie H. Davel, MUST Deep Learning, North-West University. An up-to-date list is also available on Google Scholar.

Under review

  1. 01 Convolutional DPA Refinement for Real-Time Channel Estimation in High-Mobility Vehicular Networksunder review
    Ngorima, S.A., Helberg, A.S.J. & Davel, M.H. · IEEE Access · PhD core contribution
  2. 02 REACH: Interpretability-Driven Feature Identification and Architecture Compression for Multi-Channel Vehicular Channel Estimationunder review
    Ngorima, S.A., Helberg, A.S.J. & Davel, M.H. · IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking · submitted 2026
    arXiv:2606.11857 →
  3. 03 Joint Interpretability-Guided Pruning and Near-Optimal Weight Quantisation for Deep Vehicular Channel Estimatorsunder review
    Ngorima, S.A., Helberg, A.S.J. & Davel, M.H. · IEEE GLOBECOM 2026

Refereed publications

  1. 04 Simplified Temporal Convolutional Based Channel Estimation for a WiFi Vehicular Communication Channel
    Ngorima, S.A., Helberg, A.S.J. & Davel, M.H. · IEEE VTS Wireless Africa Conference, 2025
    doi:10.1109/WAC63911.2025.10992609 →
  2. 05 Feature Extraction for Plant Growth Estimation
    Ngorima, S.A., Helberg, A.S.J. & Davel, M.H. · Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 2784, Springer, Cham, 2025
    doi:10.1007/978-3-032-11733-5_5 →
  3. 06 Neural Network-Based Vehicular Channel Estimation Performance: Effect of Noise in the Training Set
    Ngorima, S.A., Helberg, A.S.J. & Davel, M.H. · Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 2326, Springer, Cham, 2024
    doi:10.1007/978-3-031-78255-8_12 →
  4. 07 A Data Pilot-Aided Temporal Convolutional Network for Channel Estimation in IEEE 802.11p Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications
    Ngorima, S.A., Helberg, A.S.J. & Davel, M.H. · Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC), 2024
  5. 08 Sequence-Based Deep Neural Networks for Channel Estimation in Vehicular Communication Systems
    Ngorima, S.A., Helberg, A.S.J. & Davel, M.H. · Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1976, Springer, Cham, 2023
    doi:10.1007/978-3-031-49002-6_12 →

Conference presentations