Activities
Positions
- International Research Fellow – Paris Institute for Advanced Study Fellow and Sorbonne Cluster for Artificial Intelligence, Sep 2023 – Jun 2024
- DSI/NRF-UCT SARChI Chair in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems – Artificial Intelligence Research Unit, University of Cape Town, May 2023 – present
- Chair of Board – Jembi Health Systems, 2020 – present
- Vice Chair of Board and Chair of the Strategic and Innovation Sub-Committee, Jembi Health Systems, 2014 – 2019
- Associate Professor of Computer Science – Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, Jul 2016 – present
- Co-Director and Co-founder – National Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, coordinated by CSIR Meraka, Oct 2011 – Nov 2012, Jul 2016 – present
- Senior Lecturer of Computer Science – School of Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Jan 2005 – Jun 2016
- Head of School – School of Computer Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Feb 2008 – Jan 2011
- Non-Executive Director – Jembi Health Systems, 2009 – present
- Lecturer of Computer Science – Department of Computer Science, University of Natal Durban, Mar 2003 – Dec 2004
- Senior Researcher (part-time) – Meraka Institute, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), May 2007 – Dec 2008
Research Visits
- Paris Institute for Advanced Study and Sorbonne Cluster for Artificial Intelligence, Sorbonne University, Sep 2023 – Jun 2024, France
- Sensor Web & Simulation Lab, Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster, Sep 2011 – Oct 2011, Germany
- Machine Vision Unit, Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour (IPAB), School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Apr 2011 – Jun 2011, UK
- Clinical Decision Making Group, CSAIL, MIT, Dec 2004 – Jan 2005, Cambridge, USA
- ICT4EO Group, Meraka Institute, CSIR, Dec 2005 – Jan 2006, Pretoria, South Africa
Honours
- Finalist, Two National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) Awards, May 2024
- Research Fellowship, Paris Institute for Advanced Studies, Sep 2023 – Jun 2024
- Fellow, 4th Intercontinental Academia (ICA#4) on Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence, 2021 – Jul 2022
- Erasmus Mundus SAPIENT visiting researcher scholarship, Sensor Web Simulation Lab, University of Muenster, Sep 2011 – Oct 2011, Germany
- Visiting fellowship, CS and AI lab at MIT & Harvard Medical School, ITGH Fogarty-NIH medical informatics grant, Dec 2004 – Jan 2005
- DAAD doctoral scholarship, German Government Academic Exchange Service, 2002
Reviewer: Journals
- South African Computing Journal, 2010, 2014, 2017, 2019
- IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine, 2015, 2017
- Neural Computing and Applications, 2017, 2021
- International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2012
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2010, 2011, 2012
- International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management (IJHTM), 2010
Reviewer: Conferences and Workshops
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018, sub-reviewer for 2019, 2020, 2023
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
- Appointed to the IJCAI Novel Program Committee Board (PCB), 2022, 2023, 2024
- International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
- Mentor and reviewor, ISWC Doctoral Consortium, 2024
- European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020, 2023
- Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists (SAICSIT), 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
- Foundations of Health Information Engineering and Systems, 2012, 2013, 2014
- International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (SSN), 2012, 2013, 2014
- 7th IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems (ESAS), 2012
- Sub reviewer: 25th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AJCAI), 2012
- Integrating Sensor-Web and Web-based Geoprocessing (ISW) Workshop, AGILE Conference on GI Science, 2011
- IEEE AFRICON, Special Session on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Africa, 2011
- Australasian Ontology Workshop, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012
- Knowledge Representation Ontology Workshop (KROW), 2008
Other Reviewing Duties
- Member of the International Scientific Selection Committee of the FIAS Fellowship Program, French Institute for Advanced Study, 2024
- Member of the Scholarship Adjudication Panel, Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, 2023, 2024
- Reviewer for NRF Grants – Thuthuka grant, 2015, Blue Skies grant, 2014
- Reviewer for NRF rating, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018
- Grant reviewer for Netherlands Foundation for Science for Global Development (WOTRO), 2011
Committee Memberships
- Co-chair of African Initiatives programme, member of conference commit, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Aug 2023
- Co-covenor of NRF rating specialist committee on Information Technology, 2021 – 2022, Convenor, 2023 – present
- Steering committee, South African Conference on Artificial Intelligence Research (SACAIR), 2020
- Member of African Union Expert Panel on Artificial Intelligence 2019 – 2020
- Organising committee for inaugural Forum for Artificial Intelligence, 2019
- Steering committee, International Symposium series of Foundations for Health Information and Engineering Systems (FHIES), 2011-2013
- Scoping group, United Nations international masters in health informatics, attended scoping workshop, Mar 2012, China
- Interoperability and Standards (I&S) Working Group of the National ICT4Health/eHealth Stakeholder Forum, 2012 – present
- WRC project K5/1753: Land-Water Linkages: Agent-based modelling of land use change and its impact on water, 2007 – 2010