Olivier Rukundo

Olivier Rukundo is one of three Rwandans going with the Sakharov Prize nominee Mrs. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza to Rwanda in January 2010. Olivier returned to China three weeks later to complete his Doctor of Philosophy degree program at Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Rukundo was born and raised Roman Catholic in Rwanda. He attended Kigali Institute of Science and Technology, earned a degree in electronics and telecommunication engineering (2005) and he was employed for 18 months at Société Interbancaire de Monétique et de Télécompensation au Rwanda before moving on to Huazhong University of Science and Technology for his master's and PhD degrees in electronics and information engineering with a specialization in communication and information systems (2007 - 2012). Dr Rukundo joined the University of Pretoria, Tilburg University and Ghent University, as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, in 2013, 2014 and 2015, respectively. His research interests to date include image processing and optimization. Dr. Rukundo served as a reviewer for several journals, including the SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging.

In an August 11, 1997 secretive night-time military operation, Gabon returned Olivier Rukundo to his homeland forcedly. Olivier fled to Gabon in June 1997 after trekking for 6 months across the equatorial forest of the Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire) and later fleeing fierce fighting in Brazzaville.

• 2012. Optimal Methods Research On Gray-scale Image Interpolation (灰度图像插值优化方法的研究).

• 2016. Advances on Image Interpolation based on Ant Colony Algorithm. SpringerPlus
• 2015. Effects of Improved-Floor Function on the Accuracy of Bilinear Interpolation Algorithm. Computer and Information Science
• 2015. Thinning based Antialiasing Approach for Visual Saliency of Digital Images. SCITEPRESS Digital Library
• 2014. Optimization of Image Interpolation Based On Nearest Neighbour Algorithm. SCITEPRESS Digital Library
• 2012. Nearest Neighbor Value Interpolation.
• 2012. Optimization of Bilinear Interpolation Based On Ant Colony Algorithm. Springer Science+Business Media
• 2011. Image Interpolation Based On the Pixel Value Corresponding To The Smallest Absolute Difference. IEEE
• 2010. Optimization of Analog Circuits Test Mode Based On Ants Colony Algorithms. IEEE