Kukhokuhle Tsengwa

Biography

Kukhokuhle Tsengwa graduated from the mechatronics engineering programme from the University of Cape Town. During this time, he worked on projects involving autonomous systems such as drones, wireless charging and as part of a start-up team building a mobile phone independent panic button. After this, he joined Toyota South Africa Motors as part of the team that brought the first hybrid vehicle to South Africa. He is passionate about building robots that can leap out of the lab into the world and add value to real people's lives. His current masters research uses signal processing techniques to monitor muscle activity non-invasively, with potential applications to orthopaedic and neurological rehabilitation. He is an amateur mathematician, taking pure mathematics courses alongside his research and excited to see how this experience will influence his future DPhil research at Oxford. In his spare time, he enjoys jogging, reading and recording educational YouTube videos.