Journal editorial committees

1. Senior Associate Editor ACM Transactions on Probabilistic Machine Learning from Apr. 2023 – present
2. Area Editor for AI, ML and Data Science, ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies from 2023 – present
3. Associate Editor, Computer Science, South African Computer Journal, from Jan. 2021 – present
4. Moodley, D. and Davel, M.H., 2020. Guest Editorial: FAIR 2019 special issue. South African Computer Journal, 32(2), pp.x-xiii.

Other affiliations and positions

• Editorial Research Fellow – Paris Institute for Advanced Study, 2025-2028
• Chair of the Board – Jembi Health Systems, 2020 – present
• Convenor of South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF) researcher rating specialist committee on Information Technology from 2023 and a member since 2021

Conference Committees and Academic Panels

• Co-chair of African Initiatives programme, member of conference committee, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Aug 2023
• 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 

Research funding committees and panels 

• Panel member for assessing proposals submitted to the NordForsk call for Nordic-Baltic initiative on responsible use of Artificial Intelligence with a total budget in excess of 16.3 Norwegian Kroner.
• Member of the UK NIHR Global Health Research (GHR) Researcher-Led Funding Committee, which reviewed and made recommendations for NIHR GHR funding applications (the call was suspended after the shortlisting round)
• 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

Selected Research Visits and Fellowships

• Research Fellowship: Paris Institute for Advanced Study and Sorbonne Cluster for Artificial Intelligence, Sorbonne University, Sep 2023 – Jun 2024, France
• Fellow, 4th Intercontinental Academia (ICA#4) on Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence, 2021 – Jul 2022
• Erasmus Mundus Staff scholarship: Sensor Web & Simulation Lab, Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster, Sep 2011 – Oct 2011, Germany
• Visiting researcher: Machine Vision Unit, Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour (IPAB), School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Apr 2011 – Jun 2011, UK
• NIH-Fogarty staff scholarship: Clinical Decision Making Group, CSAIL, MIT, Dec 2004 – Jan 2005, Cambridge, USA

Recent Reviewer duties: Conferences and Workshops 

• Mentor and reviewor, ISWC Doctoral Consortium, 2024
• 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
• International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
• 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