Professor Theo Swart was born and educated in South Africa. He received the B. Ing. and M. Ing. degrees in electric and electronic engineering from the Rand Afrikaans University (University of Johannesburg), South Africa, in 1999 and 2001, respectively (both cum laude), and the D. Ing. degree from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2006. He is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Science and the Director of the University of Johannesburg Center for Telecommunications. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and was previously the chair of the IEEE South Africa Chapter on Information Theory and previously a specialist editor in Communications and Signal Processing for the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE) Africa Research Journal.
To date he has over 50 journal articles and over 75 conference articles to his name, and has been the co-editor of and contributor to two editions of a comprehensive book on power-line communication. He has served on several Technical Programme Committees for conferences and served as Technical Programme Co-Chair for the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and its Applications. He was also a member of the organising committee for the African Winter School on Information Theory and Communications of 2010 and Co-chair for the same event in 2015 and 2019.
Prof Swart has done reviews for various journals and conferences, including reviews for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and its Applications, IEEE, AFRICON and SATNAC. He was a co-recipient of the SAIEE Annual Award for the Best Paper Published in the SAIEE Africa Research Journal for "Combined Spectral Shaping Codes and OFDM Modulation for Narrowband Interference Channels" by K. Ouahada, H.C. Ferreira, A.J.H. Vinck, A.J. Snyders and T.G. Swart, 2008.
